Continuing booktwo’s mission to push lit into every available media space, online and off, we’re pleased to present a muxtape featuring some of our favourite pieces of poetry and spoken word. I’ve always been rubbish at arranging mixtapes, so apologies if the order jars a little.
- William Burroughs – Thanksgiving Prayer
- Stephen Spender – The Truly Great
- Thom Gunn – Moly
- Richard Hell – “The Rev. Hell Gets Confused”
- Rainer Maria Rilke – Too Alone
- Louis MacNeice – Prayer Before Birth
- Ivor Cutler – Shop Lifters
- Don Paterson – The Lover
- Hilaire Belloc – Tarantella
- T.S. Eliot
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