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Gloucester & District

Notes from PS!1

Pam Ayres (Mary Kitchen)

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Agricultural Caress, John Betjeman (David Carroll)

Agricultural Caress, by John Betjeman

The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, J Milton Hayes (Jeremy Furtado)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreenEyeoftheYellowGod

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18) Shakespeare (Annie Sulston)

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html

Oxbode Lane, Spoonbed Farm from Nursery Rhymes of Gloucestershire, ERP Berryman (Heather Cresswell)

Oxbode Lane can be seen here

Even More Gloucester in The 1900s

thanks to Terry’s heads up, the farm (nr Stroud) here

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101223628-spoonbed-farmhouse-painswick.YAUzu-n7RmA

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Robert Browning (Lesley Brain)

http://victorian-era.org/images/Soliloquy-of-the-Spanish-Cloister.pdf

Excerpt from Song of Songs (Marian Carroll)

note from Elvin: The poem Rise up my love is better known by me with the title My beloved spake. … three composers having added music to it. Henry Purcell was the earliest (Sarah - this is the one I know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4DQJ7XD9KE)

Then a Patrick Hadley version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjULGCnpYaI)

… version by John Sanders, Organist & Master of the Choristers at Gloucester Cathedral 1967 to 1993, which I know … sung this in 16 concerts over the years! John's version was recorded onto CD by the choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, 2004 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMFg0I5yMU)

Concorde, EA Walshe (Clive Harper)

https://allpoetry.com/poem/9674155-Concorde-by-albertted74 As of 18.1.21, documentary available BBC iPlayer, The Virus that Killed the Jumbo Jet includes comparison of Concorde/747

The Angel of the North, Adam Clarke

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/angel-of-the-north/ A number of people concurred with Clive that visiting the sculpture is a unique and special experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelofthe_North

Warning, Jenny Joseph (Diana Way)

Some commented that we didn’t know anything else by Joseph except this lovely example, ‘the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Joseph

Not my Best Side, UA Fanthorpe (Rosie Walker)

This recording includes the Uccello picture on which Fanthorpe based the poem

Rosie also read the requested BC:AD by UAF

http://www.seedsofsilence.org.uk/u-a-fanthorpe---bcad.html

The Eve of St Agnes, John Keats (Alan Chacon)

Alan apologised that there was only time for some excepts - here it is in its entirely

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44470/the-eve-of-st-agnes