Poetry, in Anticipation of Valentine’s Day
In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, for the National Year of Reading, I spent a week racing around London recording various people reading their favourite ‘love poems’.
Forgive the poor sound quality – I’m no sound engineer (which is why you can hear a washing machine in the background of Patsy Palmer’s poem).
Click on the small play button below to hear them.
1. Trevor McDonald reading She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
2. Neil Pearson reading May I feel Said He by EE Cummings
3. Johnny Vaughan reading Never Seek to Tell Thy Love by William Blake
4. Patsy Palmer reading Remember by Christina G Rossetti
5. Nicholas Owen reading Love’s Philosophy by Shelley
6. Kelly Brook reading Valentine by John Fuller
7. Lesley Joseph reading He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats
8. Fiona Phillips reading Valentine by Wendy Cope
9. Andrew Harvey reading Coat by Vicki Feaver
Activity