Catching Life By The Throat by Josephine Hart
This audiobook is an anthology of poems by WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart and read by a cast of famous actors: Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Ian McDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Sir Roger Moore, Harold Pinter, Elizabeth McGovern, Harriet Walter, Sir Bob Geldof, Sinead Cusack, Grey Gowrie, Rupert Graves and Juliet Stevenson. 'The idea is simple,' says Josephine Hart as she introduces the poets and takes us through their life and writings, 'an understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense.' Whether you believe, like Robert Frost, that poetry is a way of catching life by the throat or, like Eliot, it is one person talking to another, nobody does it better than the poets whose work and life will feature in this publication.
Live readings by good voices are a terrific ideaAll the greats are here BOOKSELLER For all ages ... [the poets'] work is enhanced by some of our greatest actors FT MAGAZINE The performances illuminate afresh SUNDAY TIMES How gratifying for once to find an audiobook that's a million times better than its print counterpart ... Inspired GUARDIAN
Josephine Hart was a Director of Haymarket Publishing and founded Gallery Poets before going on to produce a number of West End plays. She is the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion,The Stillest Day and The Reconstructionist. She is married to Maurice Saatchi and has two sons.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781405501507 |
| Title | Catching Life By The Throat |
| Release date | 2006-11-02 |
| Format | Abridged Audiobook CD |
| Studio | Hachette Audio |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Josephine Hart |
| Read by | A Cast of Actors |