5016700119411

The Year Clock, The Dorset Dialect Poems Of William Barnes (2CD)

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: WGS436CD

Format Details: 2CD

Release Date:  07 September 2020

Label:  Wild Goose

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5016700119411

Genres:  Spoken Word  English Folk  

  • Description

    From the Collected works of the Dorset Poet William Barnes [ 1801-1886] Forty evocative poems of country life read by local dialect speakers. The musical settings of some of the poems are by Tim Laycock. William Barnes was born near Sturminster Newton in the North of the county, and spent his working life as a schoolteacher and a priest, mostly in the Dorchester area. In his leisure time he drew on his memories of a rural childhood on the banks of the River Stour, and wrote his poetry in the dialect of The Blackmore Vale. Here you will find beautiful and moving depictions of the passing seasons, lively descriptions of country celebrations, and intriguing stories of local triumphs and tragedies. Barnes' great gift was the ability to make poetry from the everyday comings and goings of family and friends. The musical settings of some of the poems (including Linden Lea) are by Tim Laycock. The readers are all local people from North Dorset.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Year Clock -Spring
      • 2. The Young Rhymer Snubb’d
      • 3. Leady Day An’ Ridden House
      • 4. Childhood
      • 5. The Love Child
      • 6. False Friends-Like
      • 7. Blackmwore Maidens
      • 8. Don’t Ceare
      • 9. The Leane
      • 10. May
      • 11. The Year Clock –summer
      • 12. Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken
      • 13. Woak Hill
      • 14. White An’ Blue
      • 15. John Bloom In Lon’on
      • 16. From The Veairies
      • 17. A Bit O’ Sly Coorten
      • 18. The Child An’ The Mowers
      • 19. Lullaby
      • 20. Jenny’s Ribbons
      • 21. The Shepherd O’ The Farm
      • 22. Evenen In The Village

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Year Clock- Fall
      • 2. A Zong Of Harvest Hwome
      • 3. Picken O’ Scroff
      • 4. The Wold Waggon
      • 5. Nanny Gill
      • 6. Wheat
      • 7. Shrodon Feair
      • 8. A Witch
      • 9. The Wife A-Lost
      • 10. Our Father’s Works
      • 11. The Year Clock- Winter
      • 12. Bells Ringing
      • 13. Lydlinch Bells
      • 14. Praise O’do’set
      • 15. Linden Lea
      • 16. The Humstrum
      • 17. What Dick An’ I Did
      • 18. The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire
      • 19. The Giants In Treades
      • 20. Grammer’s Shoes
      • 21. The Geate A-Vallen To
      • 22. The Year Clock