| John Heath-Stubbs (b. 1918) recalls how the teacher at his tiny village school read her pupils Our Island Story, sparking in him a lifelong fascination with history that has informed his poetic career ever since. He completed his education at Worcester College for the Blind and Queens College, Oxford. First published in 1941 in Eight Oxford Poets, Heath-Stubbs has had a prolific career - as a critic, anthologist and translator as well as poet. He has received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the St Augustine Cross and was awarded the OBE in 1988. He lives in London.
1 Mozart 0.47
2 Purkis 1.38
3 A Crow in Bayswater 1.07
4 Christus Natus Est 1.23
5 The Frog and the Nightingale 0.27
6 Wishes for the Months 1.04
7 The Lady's Complaint 2.18
8 Girl with Marionettes 1.37
9 Plato and the Waters of the Flood 1.52
10 When Sappho Loved 1.16
11 The Timeless Nightingale 2.53
12 The Poet of Bray 2.16
13 Inscription for a Scented Garden for the Blind 0.47
14 The Tree-Creeper 0.29
15 The Carrion Crow 0.46
16 The Stonechat 0.18
17 The Blackcap 0.42
18 Ibycus 2.08
19 Song of the Death-Watch Beetle 1.09
20 Flea 0.28
21 Inscription for a Sundial 0.28
22 A Jellicle Cat 1.32
23 The Mulberry Tree 1.00
24 The Ghost of Gruesome Towers 2.41
25 A Ballad of the Piltdown Man 0.31
26 At the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea 0.28
27 A Ballad of Trafalgar Square 1.24
28 Sonnet 1.41
29 Ockham's Razor 0.58
30 A Christmas Rose 0.40
Total length of the recording 37.00
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