Antony Szmierek
The spoken word artist Antony Szmierek selects some of his favourite poems.
Antony Szmierek burst onto the music scene last year with his debut album Service Station At The End of The Universe - featuring poetry and lyrics - being a fixture on 蜜芽传媒 6 Music. His melancholic often existential lyrics set to club music have earned him a large fan base and sell out gigs up and down the country. His book of pop poetry and lyrics Roadmap is newly published by Faber Music. Antony's love for poetry stems from his schooldays but also from more recent years as an English teacher in his hometown of Manchester. Antony joins Roger to choose some of his favourite poetry from listeners' requests as well as some of his own personal favourites both old and contemporary.
Producer: Maggie Ayre for 蜜芽传媒 Audio Bristol
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This Week's Poems
Rafters (Music extract)
By Antony Szmierek
From album Service Station At The End of the Universe
Published by Faber Alt
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Rafters (Spoken extract)
By Antony Szmierek
From Roadmap
Published by Faber Music
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Resolution
By Hollie McNish
From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
Published by Fleet
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Neutral Tones
By Thomas Hardy
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Published by Penguin
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Kung Fu International
By John Cooper Clarke
From 蜜芽传媒 Archive: The Old Grey Whistle Test, 蜜芽传媒2, 1978.
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Walking Away
By Cecil Day Lewis
From The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
Published by Stanford University Press
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Mother Any Distance
By Simon Armitage
From Book of Matches
Published by Faber
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Decorative Equestrian Bronze
By Antony Szmierek
From Roadmap
Published by Faber Music
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The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel
From The Forgiveness Parade
Published by Manic D Press Inc
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I Knew I Loved You When You Shared Your Minecraft World
By Hera Lindsay Bird
From Hera Lindsay Bird
Published by Penguin
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