Beside the Sea
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esmerelda_t (and my sister) for alerting me to this rather gorgeous poetry installation that is taking place around the UK. Peace Camp is a coastal installation curated by director Deborah Warner and actor Fiona Shaw who established:
Many of my favourite poems have already been added to the anthology and one of the "rich dialects" contributing to the murmuring is none other than Ioan Gruffudd who has read Robert Graves' Counting the Beats, the anonymous Ar Lan Y Mor / Beside the Sea, (this is beautiful beyond belief), and John Donne's Canonisation (would it be uncouth to squeeeee over Ioan Gruffudd reading John Donne?) Just follow the links to hear the readings.
Other highlights include Cillian Murphy reading Yeats' Oh Do Not Love To Long and When You Are Old and Grey and, for anyone who is still weeping over the death of Falstaff, Simon Russell Beale reading Donne's The Good Morrow and Keats' Le Belle Dame Sans Merci. There are also two recordings of Donne's To His Mistress Going To Bed by Alun Armstrong and Cliff Burnett. I don't know Burnett at all but I much prefer his reading to Armstrong's.
One of my own favourite poems, Edwin Morgan's One Cigarette is also included in the anthology but no one has recorded it yet so I'm very tempted to do it myself :}
One of the "glowing encampments" is on one of the beaches at home on Lewis; Traigh Na Clibhe or Cliff Beach. This also happens to be where my sister and her partner camp on a regular basis and when I was at home a fortnight ago she was complaining about not being able to go camping because the beach was over run with "weirdos from the mainland". Ahem. Still, given that the Peace Camp website describes the terrain of Lewis as being "extraordinarily bleak" she perhaps has a right to be miffed!
Peace Camp, Traigh na Clibhe
esmerelda_t (and my sister) for alerting me to this rather gorgeous poetry installation that is taking place around the UK. Peace Camp is a coastal installation curated by director Deborah Warner and actor Fiona Shaw who established: "Eight murmuring, glowing encampments at some of our most beautiful and remote coastal locations. Designed to be visited between dusk and dawn, Peace Camp is a poignant exploration of love poetry and a celebration of the extraordinary variety and beauty of our coastline.
Alongside the live installations, the project will also paint an audible portrait of the nation with the creation of a virtual Peace Camp online. The people of the UK are invited to nominate and record their favourite love poems and submit their own messages, creating an online anthology that celebrates our languages, dialects and accents as well as our rich poetic tradition."
Many of my favourite poems have already been added to the anthology and one of the "rich dialects" contributing to the murmuring is none other than Ioan Gruffudd who has read Robert Graves' Counting the Beats, the anonymous Ar Lan Y Mor / Beside the Sea, (this is beautiful beyond belief), and John Donne's Canonisation (would it be uncouth to squeeeee over Ioan Gruffudd reading John Donne?) Just follow the links to hear the readings.
Other highlights include Cillian Murphy reading Yeats' Oh Do Not Love To Long and When You Are Old and Grey and, for anyone who is still weeping over the death of Falstaff, Simon Russell Beale reading Donne's The Good Morrow and Keats' Le Belle Dame Sans Merci. There are also two recordings of Donne's To His Mistress Going To Bed by Alun Armstrong and Cliff Burnett. I don't know Burnett at all but I much prefer his reading to Armstrong's.
One of my own favourite poems, Edwin Morgan's One Cigarette is also included in the anthology but no one has recorded it yet so I'm very tempted to do it myself :}
One of the "glowing encampments" is on one of the beaches at home on Lewis; Traigh Na Clibhe or Cliff Beach. This also happens to be where my sister and her partner camp on a regular basis and when I was at home a fortnight ago she was complaining about not being able to go camping because the beach was over run with "weirdos from the mainland". Ahem. Still, given that the Peace Camp website describes the terrain of Lewis as being "extraordinarily bleak" she perhaps has a right to be miffed!
Peace Camp, Traigh na Clibhe
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Date: 2012-07-25 05:59 pm (UTC)Did you notice IG not only read it-- he suggested it. Kind of made my day. I am having a rather disturbing day.
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Date: 2012-07-25 08:44 pm (UTC)Sorry you're having a disturbing day, I hope things are settling back into soe kind of equilibrium for you. Hugs A x
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Date: 2012-07-25 08:42 pm (UTC)Honestly? That sounds like hell. :D
Pretty picture, though! And RAWR - Cillian Murphy!
There is already one of my favourites on there. Waiting for the others to show up… :) I wonder if non-Commonwealth poets are frowned upon. There's no American author included so far. :(
Do record your poem! I'd love to hear it!
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Date: 2012-07-29 08:19 pm (UTC)You and my sister....great minds think alike :)
And RAWR - Cillian Murphy!
I linked to him just for you! I've never heard him speaking with his own accent before. Nice, veeery nice ;)
I wonder if non-Commonwealth poets are frowned upon. There's no American author included so far. :(
As far as I can make out, the project is specifically about poets and voices from the British Isles.
Do record your poem! I'd love to hear it!
I'll probably never get round to it, but if I do, I'll let you know. (Btw did you hear any of the podfic we did last year? That was great fun! Sadly it all disappeared when Megaupload was shut down by the FBI. Bastards. I hope they're enjoying our podfic! I still have copies on my laptop but haven't got round to uploading it anywhere else.)
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Date: 2012-07-30 07:09 pm (UTC)I didn't hear the podfics! :( Do you have mp3 files of them? I'd love to listen to one of your recordings! You're probably tired of hearing this, but your accent is so charming, I could listen to reading the instructions for changing a car tire. :D
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Date: 2012-07-31 11:05 pm (UTC)I've still got the mp3s of most of the podfics that we recorded. I got a bit carried away and did about half a dozen of them! I really must find another hosting site for them so I can repost all the recordings again. I could put a couple in dropbox for you in the meantime though. I'll load some up tomorrow and send you the link.
When I used to travel to the US for meetings the Americans were always fascinated by my accent, most people tended to think I was Irish though!
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Date: 2012-08-01 05:37 am (UTC)Perhaps to Americans, every British person who doesn't sound English is Irish. You should have worn a "Kiss me, I'm Scottish" shirt. ;)
Although to be fair, I recently watched the second season of Heroes, and Caitlin from Cork alias Katie Carr reminded me a bit of you. :D
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Date: 2012-07-25 10:29 pm (UTC)Exploring a little more. He also recorded 'Dover Beach.'
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:03 am (UTC)I wasn't sure if Dover Beach was him or not! It doesn't sound much like any of the English accents I have heard him use before, but I could be wrong. What do you think?
I would sell my soul to hear JB doing something like this....
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:42 am (UTC)As for JB doing it, he can have both our souls. (In a basket perhaps.)
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Date: 2012-07-26 12:46 am (UTC)It is for sure Ioan. I think I said once, I could sit and listen happily to him read tax code.
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Date: 2012-07-29 08:12 pm (UTC)I've been smiling at this all week :) Archie certainly has a little bit of my soul tied up in ribbon!