Holy Verses
In a programme about the role of poetry in worship, Mark Tully asks if the term 'religious poetry' is restrictive or helpful.
In a programme about the role of poetry in worship, Mark Tully examines the work of the poets John Donne, Kathleen Raine and W.H. Auden, amongst others.
In conversation with the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, he discusses the concept of 'religious poetry' asks whether the term, as TS Eliot claimed, suggests that it's 'like a variety of minor poetry'. He asks what poetry has to offer religion and what it means to poets with faith.
The programme includes music by Stravinsky, John Coltrane and Simon and Garfunkel.
The readers are Toby Jones, Frances Cadder and Harriet Walter.
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Igor Stravinsky
Psalm 40 Expectans Expectavi Dominum et Intendit Mihi
Performer: Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker
- Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms / Symphony in C / Symphony in Three Movements.
- EMI.
- 2377494.
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John Coltrane
Psalm
Performer: John Coltrane
- A Love Supreme.
- Impulse!.
- MCAD5660.
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Simon & Garfunkel
You Can Tell the World
Composer: Bob Gibson/Bob Camp
- Wednesday Morning 3AM.
- Sony.
- 4633752.
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Choristers of St Paul’s Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Sir Charles Groves.
Hymn of Jesus
Composer: Gustav Holst
- Holst: The Hymn of Jesus.
- EMI.
- CDC7494092.
Readings
Author: Frank O’Connor
Publisher:Ìý±Ê±ð²Ô²µ³Ü¾±²Ô
ISBN-10: 0141439459
Title: ‘Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’ from The Complete English Poems
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN-10: 0140422099
Title: 'O’ Song’ from Drysalter
Author: Michael Symmons Roberts
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN-10: 0224093592
Title: ‘Ascension Day, 1964’ from Collected Poems
Author: W H Auden
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN-10: 0571221440
Title: ‘Word Made Flesh’ from The Collected Poems
Author: Kathleen Raine
Publisher: Golgonooza Press
ISBN-10: 0903880814
Broadcasts
- Sun 30 Jun 2013 06:05Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sun 30 Jun 2013 23:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sun 29 May 2022 06:05Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sun 29 May 2022 23:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4