Audio Recordings 1984-1999 (mp3 files)

 

Each audio file contains one or several poems with linking introductions.
Thanks to Barbara Walsh, Irish author and historian, for making these recordings available.
All material is copyright © 2016 Estate of Basil Payne.

  Session 1(length 22:56)
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  • 00:00
  • Plunge
  •   Session 2a (length 41:49)
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  • 00:45
  • 03:30
  • 09:05
  • 10:44
  • 15:09
  • 16:40
  • 19:55
  • 21:18
  • 23:30
  • 25:00
  • 30:35
  • 38:10
  • 40:00
  • Whole Earth Festival in Northern California
  • Certain Advantages and Disadvantages of Being a Gorilla
  • Is This a Touch?
  • Further Revelations at Midnight
  • Inwards
  • Scream
  • I Spy a Lark
  • Of Love I Dreamt
  • Aha I laugh
  • Freedom
  • Perched in My Private Dark
  • One Kindred Spirit
  • Clap Hands, Beat Time
  •   Session 2b (length 43:50)
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  • 03:20
  • 06:30
  • 11:13
  • 16:50
  • 19:05
  • 22:40
  • 26:08
  • 30:38
  • 34:42
  • 39:10
  • 42:08
  • Love Song
  • Watching my Father Shaving
  • Requiem for an Alcoholic Widow
  • Little Jerusalem Revisited
  • Love in the Afternoon
  • Burnt Offering
  • Two on a Journey
  • No-one to Wave at
  • Mona Lisa and Demons at Penn Station, New York
  • Afflicted and Unafflicted at Penn Station, New York
  • Night Train from Chicago
  •   Session 3 (length 01:16)
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  • 00:00
  • An Interlude (linking poem from a dramatic presentation - "Be Free with Me" - of poetry and music)
  •   Session 4 (length 09:27)
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  • 02:44
  • 08:03
  • The Touch that Quivers to a New Identity
  • You're Very Normal for a Poet
  •   Session 5 (length 30:32)
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  • 03:16
  • 06:30
  • 10:42
  • 16:49
  • 19:06
  • 22:39
  • 26:02
  • 27:34
  • Love Song
  • Watching my Father Shaving
  • Requiem for an Alcoholic Widow
  • Little Jerusalem Revisited
  • Love in the Afternoon
  • Burnt Offering
  • Two on a Journey
  • My Father's Grave
  •   Session 6 (length 27:06)
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  • 00:00
  • 04:03
  • 08:30
  • 11:25
  • 13:53
  • 17:25
  • 23:49
  • No-one to Wave at
  • Mona Lisa and Demons at Penn Station, New York
  • Afflicted and Unafflicted at Penn Station, New York
  • Night Train from Chicago
  • Whole Earth Festival in Northern California
  • Certain Advantages and Disadvantages of Being a Gorilla
  • Further Revelations at Midnight
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