Poetry
Sonnet No 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen
Read by Frank Whitten. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Vaux's Galliard (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 117: Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
Read by Donogh Rees. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Read by Noelle Macarthy. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
Read by Linda Cartwright. Music details: Dowland: Lady Clifton's Spirit (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you
Read by Michael Hurst Music details: Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
Read by Charles Pierard. Music details: Dowland: Almain, P51 (Naxos 8.570449 ) Audio
Arts Ambassador - Poetry
NMIT creative-writing educator Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Audio
Arts with Mark Amery
Arts commentator Mark Amery discusses the creative employment of New Zealand's photographic heritage, with a focus on the recently published book Young Country by poet Kerry Hines published by AUP… Audio
Sonnet No 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Read Paul Barrett. Music details: Tobias Hume: A Question (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 111: O, for my sake do you with fortune chide
Read by George Henare. Music details: Dowland: Pavana Doulant (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 110: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
Read by Robyn Malcolm. Music details: Dowland: A Fancy (Fantasie No 5) (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Murray Edmond 'Then It Was Now Again'
Key moments in our history: a selection of Murray's reviews, eyewitness accounts, interviews and letters reflecting on New Zealand poetry and drama from the 1970s onwards. Then It Was Now Again is the… Audio
Sonnet No 109: O, never say that I was false of heart
Read by Keith Adams. Music details: John Johnson: A Ground (Naxos 8.550776 ) Audio
Sonnet No 108: What's in the brain that ink may character
Read by Michael Neill Music details: Tobias Hume: Good againe (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
NZ Poetry journal still going strong after 50 years
Poetry New Zealand originated in 1951 and has continued under a range of editors. From this year it is now edited and published by Massey's College of Humanities and Social Science - under creative… Audio
Lit Crawl: Rejectamenta
Rejection makes you stop in your tracks. No sooner do your eyes trace over the words: I am writing to inform you… Then your heart sinks, your eyes well with tears, the piece of paper falls to the… Audio
Sonnet No 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming …
Read by Matthew Crawford. Music details: John Dowland: Piece without a title (Channel Classics CCS SA 21204) Audio
Sonnet No 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long…
Read by Stuart Devenie Music details: John Dowland: Galliard (P30) (Naxos 8.557862). Audio
Sonnet No 99: The forward violet thus did I chide...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Round Battle Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 98: From you have I been absent in the spring...
Text: Read Paul Barrett. Music details: Dowland: Pavan 'La mia Barbara' (Naxos 8.570449). Audio
