Conversation Pieces: Read By Jill Balcon, Lally Bowers, Rachel Gurney, Pauline Letts, Marjorie Westbury, etc.

Aptly titled “Conversation Pieces,” the poems on this album are collaborations between pairs of readers who bring the text to life with their spirited interpretations of each poets’ work. Many popular poems are included on this album, including Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” W.H. Auden’s “O What Is That Sound,” and Thomas Hardy’s “To The Moon,” re-interpreted in a performance that calls to mind a lively evening in a parlor. With pieces that emphasize the conversational and interactive nature of poetry performance, the album is especially useful for students. Liner notes include poem texts.

Track Listing

101	Liddell and Scott	n/a	02:56
102	Old Shellover	n/a	00:42
103	The Passionate Shepherd to His Love / The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	n/a	02:49
104	To the Moon	n/a	01:23
105	Dialogue between a Man and a Fish	n/a	02:37
106	The Deserter	n/a	01:30
107	O What Is That Sound?	n/a	01:31
108	When Smoke Stood Up from Ludlow	n/a	01:19
109	The Unquiet Grave	n/a	01:56
110	Waiting for the Barbarians	n/a	02:35
201	Welsh Incident	n/a	03:04
202	Santorin	n/a	02:28
203	La Belle Dame sans Merci	n/a	02:56
204	The Ruined Maid	n/a	01:56
205	Talk in the Night / Middle-Aged Conversation	n/a	01:24
206	A Rapture on the Cornish Hills	n/a	01:21
207	Bamboo: A Ballad for Two Voices	n/a	06:10