Poetry
Sonnet No 58: That God forbid, that made me first your slave
by Frank Whitten. Music details: Dowland: Mignarda (Henry Noel's Galliard) (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Clifton's Almain (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Poetry - the Border Ballads
NMIT creative-writing educator Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets - the Border Ballads, dating from times of medieval skirmishes and raids between lowland Scots and the… Audio
Sonnet No 56: Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said
Geraldine Brophy. Music details: Dowland: Tarleton's Riserrectione (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Read by Max Cryer. Music details: Anonymous: Prelude (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Audio
Sonnet No 54: On how much more doth beauty beauteous
Read by Helen Medlyn. Music details: Tobias Hume: My hope is decayed (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Lady Rich, her Galliard (Naxos 8.570449 ) Audio
Sonnet No 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Langton's Galliard (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by John Callen. Music details: John Johnson: Dump (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 50: How heavy do I journey on my way
The first of another linked pair of sonnets. Here Shakespeare introduces the image of a horse, carrying its bearer away from the loved one. Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: Tobias Hume… Audio
Sonnet No 49: Against that time, if ever that time came
Read Charles Pierard. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Langton's Pavan (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 48: How careful was I when I took my way
Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Sir Henry Guilforde, his Almain (Naxos 8.570449). Audio
Sonnet No 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: The Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Between the kindling and the blaze
Whether it's a bro in a pub or his grandfather mowing the lawn, for writer Ben Brown mana is as intrinsic a value as his writing practice. He recites poetry from the collection From the kindling to… Audio
Sonnet No 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
Shakespeare's forty-sixth sonnet, the first of two poems on the war and subsequent peace between "heart" and "eye".Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs White's Nothing (Naxos… Audio
Sonnet No 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne Music details: Dowland-Dowland's Tears (I saw my lady… Audio
Sonnet No 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
Read Stuart Devenie. Music details: Tobias Hume-The Duke of Holstone's Almain (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
Read by George Henare. Music details: Dowland-Sir Robert Sidney, his Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Antonio Ferrabosco-Fantasia (Virgin Classics 91216). Audio
