Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why

This audiobook is an anthology of poems by WH Auden,TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, RudyardKipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart andread by a cast of famous actors: Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, IanMcDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Sir Roger Moore, Harold Pinter, ElizabethMcGovern, Harriet Walter, Sir Bob Geldof, Sinead Cusack, Grey Gowrie,Rupert Graves and Juliet Stevenson.'The idea is simple,' says Josephine Hart as she introducesthe poets and takes us through their life and writings, 'anunderstanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates thepoetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening toeach poem more intense.'Whether you believe, like Robert Frost, that poetry is a way ofcatching life by the throat or, like Eliot, it is one person talkingto another, nobody does it better than the poets whose work and lifewill feature in this publication.