Poetry
Sonnet No 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Read by Keith Adams Music details: Dowland: Lady Laiton's Almain (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art...
Read by Robyn Malcolm. Music details: Dowland: Tarleton's Riserrectione (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Brian Turner - poet, writer and professor
Brian Turner returns with a memoir called My Life as a Foreign Country. It places the reader on the streets of Mosul or in the suburbs of the USA trying to cope with war's effects. Audio
Sonnet No 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Read by Noelle McCarthy. Music details: Dowland: The Shoemaker's Wife (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Gregory O'Brien's New Zealand poetry highlights for 2014
Poet, painter, curator and writer discussing the highlights in New Zealand poetry for 2014. Audio
Sonnet No 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Read by Elric Hooper. Music details: Tobias Hume: A humorous Pavan (Alia Vox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st...
Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Music details: Byrd: O mistress mine (Philips 446 687 ). Audio
Sonnet No 127: In the old age black was not counted fair...
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Lord Strange's March (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power...
Read Paul Barrett. Music details: Tobias Hume: The Second part (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy...
Read by Elizabeth McRae Music details: Dowland: Fancy (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 124: If my dear love were but the child of state...
Read by Ilona Rodgers. Music details: Dowland: Dr Case's Pavan (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Majella Cullinane
Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University Majella Cullinane talks about the First World War era novel she's been working on all year, which incorporates her Irish and now New Zealand homes. Majella's… Audio
Sonnet No 123: No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
Read by Robyn Malcolm. Music details: Dowland: Preludium (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain...
Read by Cameron Rhodes. Music details: Anon: Ground (Virgin VC 7 91216 ) Audio
Sonnet No 121: 'Tis better to be vile, than vile esteemed
Read by Stuart Devenie Music details: Dowland: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 120: That you were once unkind, befriends me now
Read by George Henare. Music details: Tobias Hume: Death (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
Read Raymond Hawthorne. Music details: Dowland: Untitled (lossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Our Own Odysseys - Shia Shrines
The lure for Jill Worrall of Iran and why she returns to visit the Imam Reza shrine in Mashaad. Audio
Sonnet No 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen
Read by Frank Whitten. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Vaux's Galliard (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 117: Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
Read by Donogh Rees. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
