Poetry
Sonnet No 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame...
Read by Raymond Hawthorne. Music details: Tobias Hume: The new Cut (AliaVox AV 9837). Audio
Sonnet No 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none...
Read by Michael Neill. Music details: Dowland: Lachrimae (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
John McIntyre reviews new children's books
'To This Day - for the bullied and the beautiful Shane Koyczan'. This is a book created from a an anti- bullying poem by a Canadian performance poet Shane Koyczan that appeared on YouTube last year… Audio
Sonnet No 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true…
Read by Charles Pierard. Music details: Dowland: The Lady Russell's Pavan (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away…
Read by Robyn Malcolm. Music details: Dowland: Fantasie (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill…
Read Helen Medlyn. Music details: Dowland: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now...
Read by George Henare. Music details: John Johnson: The Marigold Pavan(Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault…
Read by Linda Cartwright. Music details: Dowland: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light…
Read by Cameron Rhodes. Music details: Dowland: Melancholy Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: untimely deaths
Painter, poet, curator and writer, discussing two new books, focused on real life tragedies: How To Be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse, and; Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais. Audio
Sonnet No 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing…
Read by Ilona Rodgers. Music details: J Wilson: Prelude in B flat (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907257) Audio
Sonnet No 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse...
Read by Paul Barrett. Music details: Tobias Hume: The Spirit of Gambo (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
Read by Raymond Hawthorne. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Norrish's Delight (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 84: Who is it that says most? which can say more...
Read Stuart Devenie. Music details: Dowland: Mrs White's Thing (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 83: I never saw that you did painting need...
Read by Frank Whitten. Music details: John Johnson: Carman's Whistle (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: John Johnson: Short Almain (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: John Johnson: Short Almain (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write...
Read by George Herare. Music details: Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
War Poetry Under Critical Scrutiny
A panel discussion about the poetry of the First World War involving Harry Ricketts, Kate Camp, Jane Stafford and Dave Armstrong. The conversation includes generous readings from war poets famous and… Audio
Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint - Calvinism
Wayne looks at Dunedin's Calvinist past and the lampooning it received from one of the country's best known poets. Wallace follows up with the decidedly un-Calvinistic theologian, Sir Lloyd Geering. Audio