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I have split this page into three sections - Soundcloud (mainly essays and full length stories); Mixcloud, and Miscellaneous

1. Soundcloud:
The following Soundcloud page contains full length essays, pilots for radio features, and excerpts from unpublished books. Most were written between 2013 and 2019, and the texts are available in part or whole on simonzonenblickcaterpillarpoet.blogspot.com/

Sound reel - Yorkshire/Fictional:

My essay on teazle:

My essay on heather:

Losing My Marbles - pilot episode of my radio feature What It Means To Me:

Another excerpt from my book Heron Memories:

Ice and Flowers - Bulgarian Poet Ivan Davidkov:

These Lonely Places - The Forgotten Poetry of George Moor:

Wounded Wings - The Poetry of Herbert Read:

Exploring the Moon in Poetry by Sidney, Wordsworth and Larkin:

The Brontes in Halifax (broadcast on Phoenix FM, 18th December 2018):

The opening segment of my book Heron Memories:

Where There Are Wolves - Druids, Wildlife and Poetry in the History of Barkisland, West Yorkshire (broadcast on Phoenix FM, December 2017): https://soundcloud.com/user-682739581/where-there-are-wolves-druids-wildlife-and-poetry-in-the-history-of-barkisland-west-yorkshire


2. Mixcloud. I regularly upload short recordings of poetry and fiction, sometimes full length stories, onto Mixcloud:

I have omitted listing where the recordings are replicated in the listings above. Translator details included in the descriptions. Individually, the recordings are:

July 2020:

My story An Ultimatum:

My story Lies:

Sound reel - Yorkshire/Fiction:

My essay on Teazle (different reading than on Soundcloud):

My essay on Heather:


June 2020:
My poem Seaweed:

My poem Mountain Hare, Saddleworth Moor:

From the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne

My poetry sequence Seasonal Slugs


May 2020:

Sleeper Gravel, a poem by Gilles Ortlieb

The Cold Again, a poem by Paul De Roux

Two poems by French poet Robert Desnos (1900-45)

The Garden of Song, a poem by Isaac Ibn Gi'at
Spectre, a poem about Hen Harriers, by Mark Carson

Rain and the Tyrants, a poem by Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)

The Old Station at Cahors, a poem by Valerie Larbaud

Ode, a poem about train journeys by Valerie Larbaud (1881-1957)

Three poems by William Drummond, Bard of Hawthornden (1585-1649)

Madrigal:

Another Madrigal:

Sweet Spring, Thou Turn'st:

Melancholy, a poem by John Fletcher (1579-1625)

Kingfisher, a poem from my 2014 pamphlet Random Journeys

Finches, a poem from my 2014 pamphlet Random Journeys

Poems from my 2014 pamphlet Random Journeys
Canada Geese, a poem from my 2014 pamphlet Random Journeys

The Last Channel, a short story by Italo Calvino

Melancholy, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Scaffolding, a poem from my 2013 debut collection Little Creatures

Grasshopper, a poem from my 2013 debut collection Little Creatures

Grasshopper, a poem by Abraham Cowley (1618-87)
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/grasshopper-a-poem-by-abraham-cowley-1618-1687/

April 2020:

An excerpt from my mediaeval story of crime and murder, A Villain's Venture

Number Crunching - Another lighthearted poem sequence

A-Z - A Lighthearted Alphabetical Sequence of Poems
Eight Octolunes

From the Poetry Sequence Yawn of Yawns, by Vasko Popa (1922-91)

Three Fragments from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

March 2020:

On Official Business, a Chekhov short story

The Duel, a story by Nikolai Teleshov (1867-1957)

From a Basement, a story by Mikhail Artybashev (1878-1927)
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/from-a-basement-a-story-by-mikhail-artsybashev-1878-1927/
Two stories by Chekhov, adpated from tranlations by Ronald Hingley:

Patch:


The Savage:


Ladybird, a poem from my forthcoming collection An Invertebrate Fable:

House of Ladybirds, a poem:

https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/house-of-ladybirds-a-poem/

February 2020:

3 versions of an excerpt from the Anglo Saxon poem The Sea-Farer (with sound effects):




I'll Have the Whetstone, if I May (trad. English folk):

Remembrance of the Beginnings of Things, a poem by Leah Goldberg (1911-70):

Patterns of Earth, a poem by Hyam Plutzik (1911-62):

Blaming Sons, a poem by Tao Qian (347-425):

The Little Cart, a poem by Ch'en Tzu-lung (1608-1647):

Domination of Black, a poem by Wallace Stevens:

The Combe, a poem by Edward Thomas:

Winter Piece, a poem by Charles Tomlinson:

My poem February Birches, from my 2014 collection Random Journeys:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/my-poem-february-birches-from-my-2014-pamphlet-random-journeys/

December 2019:

An excerpt from my story A Lifeline:

Tears of My Own, by Burmese poet Zeyar Lynn:

From the Poetry of Ling Yu (Taiwan):

John Ashbery's poem Two Scenes:

5 Muromachi Ballads from 15th and 16th Century Japan:

12th Century Japanese Poetry by Priest Jakuren:

5 20th Century Japanese Poems:
1. Sakaturo Hagiwara (1886-1942) : You Frogs!
2. Mitsuharu Kaneko (1895-1975) : Song of a Jellyfish
3. " " : Cuckoos
4. " " : Recititative - A Lakeshore Poem
5. Shizuo Ito (1906-53) : Watching the Beam of a Lighthouse
Anton Chekhov's short story, The Student:

Vocation, a poem by Rabindranath Tagore:

My 2005 short story In Peacetime:

My 2004 short story Community Spirit:

Rough draft of my story A  Lifeline:

November 2019:

From the poetry sequence Games, by Vasko Popa:

From the poetry sequence Far Within Us, by Vasko Popa:

My reading of Pennine Towns, a poem by John Ward:

October 2019:

The opening of my story The Woodpecker:

September 2019:

My poem Slitheroe Bridge:

From Autumn Meditations, by 8th Century Chinese poet Du Fu:

From Oh, the Wild, Wild Moors, by 19th Century poet Edwin Waugh:

From Cold Mountain poems by Han Shan:

From 3rd Century Chinese essay On Literature:

Selections from the poetry of Wang Wei, 8th C:

5th Century Chinese poet Pao Chao:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/from-the-writings-of-chinese-poet-pao-chao-414-66/

The Death of Summer, by Phoebe Hesketh:
 https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/the-death-of-summer-by-phoebe-hesketh/

Tanzanian poetry by Euphrase Kezilahabi:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/tanzanian-poetry-by-euphrase-kezilahabi/

August 2019:
My story Red Devils:
My story Vanessa (first published in Parameter, 2005):
2 poems by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/two-poems-by-zimbabwean-writer-dambudzo-marechera/

July 2019:

 Essays which were first published in the Halifax Courier and other local papers:

3 nature essays - bulrushes, cottongrass, dippers:

2 nature essays: heather and teazle:

4 bird essays: green woodpeckers, geese, muscovies, parakeets:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/four-essays-on-calder-valley-birds-green-woodpeckers-geese-muscovies-parakeets/


Hsieh T'iao (Taiwan, 5th C):
 Chinese poetry:
Liu Xiang (1st C BC):

Li Ho (9th C):

Wang Wei (2nd C):

Anonymous, 2nd C:
June 2019:

May 2019:

Rain, by Sandor Weores:
 April 2019:
Poetry of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Madagascar (1901-37):
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/poetry-by-jean-joseph-rabearivelo-1901-1937/


Another excerpt of my version of Kafka's Metamorphosis:
February 2019:


Let Them Choose Paths, by Nigerian poet Odia Ofeimun:

January 2019:

December 2018:

Kunwar Narain:
Several of my own poems:

Poetry by John Clare:

Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, by ST Coleridge:

The Sea of Death, by Thomas Hood:

At the Mid-Hour of Night, by Thomas Moore:
The Clown, by Ivan Davidkov:
October 2018:

 July 2018:


An excerpt from my essay The Curlew:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SimonZonenblick/an-excerpt-from-my-essay-the-curlew/

Miscellaneous:


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