A feast of poems and song lyrics themed around autumn. Pieces read in this episode:
The Waiting Season – Ursula Wake
To Autumn – John Keats (John Keats selected by Andrew Motion, Faber and Faber 2011)
The New Term – Carolyn Oulton (The Tree Line, Worple Press 2017)
The Years – Attilio Bertolucci (The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems, Faber and Faber 2004)
Little Acorns – The White Stripes (album Elephant, XL 2003)
New Fruit – Ann Drysdale (Ten Poems About Gardens, Candlestick Press 2018)
Mushrooms – Sylvia Plath (Colossus, Faber and Faber 2008)
The Bare Tree – Samuel Menashe (jacobkempfert.wordpress.com)
Allhallows – Jacob Polley (The Brink, Picador 2016)
Fall, Leaves, Fall – Emily Bronte (poetryfoundation.org)
Out in the Garden – Katharine Mansfield (Ten Poems About Gardens, Candlestick Press 2018)
Summer green burnishes to gold – Jon Atack
And be sure to check out our bonus episode, here: https://anchor.fm/lyricalwhacks/episodes/bonus-video-les-feuilles-mortes-enqc8a