[Interview and poetry reading] / Stevie Smith, Christopher Middleton, Jonathan Williams.

Recorded by Jonathan Williams at Stevie Smith's London home on September 13, 1963 on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape. The location and date of the Middleton recording is unknown.

This recording is part of the Jargon Society recordings made by Jonathan Williams. Disc 1 features a poetry reading by Stevei Smith. Disc 2 is a recording of Christopher Middleton reading and being interviewed by Jonathan Williams.

Stevie Smith, Christopher Middleton, Jonathan Williams.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1963

Sound recording

JAR005

Disc 1.Stevie Smith poetry reading:Tender only to one --Thoughts about the person from Porlock --Thoughts about the Christian doctrine of eternal hell --Was he married? --Not waving but drowning --The blue from heaven --Fafnir and the knights --The jungle husband --Longing for death because of feebleness --I remember --The starling --Harold's leap --My cats --The after-thought --Le singe qui swing --Autumn --Conviction --The face --The repentance of Lady T. --Croft --Apres la politique, la haine, des Bourbons --One of many --Who killed lawless lean? --Do take Muriel out --Company --Tenuous and precarious --Discussion. --Disc 2.Christopher Middleton reading:For a junior school poetry book --Amour fou --The child at the piano --In praise of the functionary --House in the street of doves --What would you have made of it, Kavafis --Dangers of waking --Penny pastorals in Texas --Cartoon of a common theme --The runner --The cyclops --In the light --The ancestors --For a future --Edward Lear in February --Yes, Mr. Brecht --Herman Moon's hourbook --Abasis --The ant sun --The forenoon --The dress --The greenfly --The sniff --Ode, on contemplating Clapham Junction --Tenebrae --Waterloo Bridge --Pointed books --Discussion.

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