Poetry
Sonnet No 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite…
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: What If A Day (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Read by Noelle Macarthy. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
Read John Callen. Music details: Tobias Hume: Life (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye
Read by Paul Barret. Music details: John Taverner: In nomine (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Audio
Sonnet No 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
Read by Elrich Hooper. Music details: Philip van Wilder: Arthur's Dump (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Audio
New poetry collections
Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe and Wellingtonian Frances Samuel released their collections around the same time with the same publisher. There's A Medical Name for This is Kerrin's second collection… Audio
Michael Katakis - Traveller
Michael Katakis has been photographing and writing about different cultures for the past 35 years. His work has been celebrated by the Royal Geographical Society, The Smithsonian Institute and the… Audio
Sonnet No 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Almain (Margaret Board Lute ms.) (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
Read by Stuart Devenie. Music details: Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth
Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Mr Knight's Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand
Read by Noelle Macarthy. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now
Read George Henare. Music details: Dowland: A Fancy (Fantasie No 6) (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: John Wilson: Prelude in A minor (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907257) Audio
Sonnet No 61: Thy will thy image should keep open
Read by Sonia Yee. Music details: Tobias Hume: Beccus an Hungarian Lord (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Puna Wai Korero: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English
According to Reina Whaitiri there is a way of seeing the world through Māori eyes that, Puna Wai Kōrero, the first ever anthology of Māori poetry in English encapsulates. For Robert Sullivan, the… Audio
Sonnet No 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
Read by Paul Barret. Music details: Dowland: Preludium (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien - Puna Wai Korero
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books, most recently the collection Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (AUP, 2012). He will discuss Puna Wai Korero: an… Audio
Sonnet No 59: If there is nothing new, but that which is
Read by Ilona Rodgers. Music details: John Johnson: The Flat Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 58: That God forbid, that made me first your slave
by Frank Whitten. Music details: Dowland: Mignarda (Henry Noel's Galliard) (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Clifton's Almain (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
