Larry Beckett
An American poet who emerged in Portland Oregon in the 1960s.
Larry Beckett is an American poet who collaborated with singer-songwriter Tim Buckley in the 1960s and 70s. His poem Song To The Siren became a hit for Buckley. His latest work in American Cycle is drawn from American language and folklore and was written over 40 years.
His choice of poems has been picked from requests sent in by listeners to include Matthew Arnold, WB Yeats, Shakespeare and Keats. He also reads two of his own poems Blue Ridge and John Lennon.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
Extract from Blue Ridge
By Larry Beckett
From American Cycle
Published by Running Wild Press
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Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
By William Shakespeare
Taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Published by Duckworth Overlook
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Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by Larry Beckett
Unpublished
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by ee cummings
From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
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You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
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From the album Blood on the Tracks
Label: Columbia / Sony
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, I – VII
By Edward Fitzgerald
Fifth edition (1889)
Published by Dover Thrift
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Extract from Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Coleridge: Poetical Works
Published by Oxford University Press
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That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
Pub: Penguin Classics
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To Autumn
By John Keats
From Poems selected by Andrew Motion
Published by Faber & Faber
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When You Are Old
By W. B. Yeats
From Yeats
Published by Everyman
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John Lennon
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From the Album One More Mile
By The Long Lost Band & Larry Beckett
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- Sun 9 Jan 2022 16:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4