Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
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“Masons, when they start upon a building, / Are careful to test out the scaffolding...” The late Seamus Heaney reads his poem “Scaffolding” on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 2009.
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Theater video tags: Faber & Faber
Nick Laird
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The Northern Irish novelist and poet reads from his poetry collections at the Louisiana Literature festival in Denmark in 2013. Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (Faber & Faber, 2005), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His latest collection, Go Giants, was published by Norton in 2013.
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Bowland Beth
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"That her skydance went for nothing / hanging fire on empty air." David Harsent reads "Bowland Beth" from his 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize–winning collection, Fire Songs (Faber & Faber, 2014).
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Ben Lerner
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"Modernism displaces its readers into the future.... I wanted to kind of purge myself of those tendencies." The award-winning poet and author, whose latest novel, 10:04, was published by Faber & Faber last September, speaks with Paul Holdengräber about modernist literature and what sincerity means.
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Alan Bennett's Smut
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The author of The Uncommon Reader (FSG, 2007) reads from "The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes," one of the two stories in his new collection, Smut, published earlier this year by Faber and Faber and Profile Books in England and forthcoming in the U.S. next month from Picador.
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Alina Simone
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Ukranian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone released her latest album, Meet Your Own Danger, in June, the same month Faber and Faber published her first book, a collection of essays titled You Must Go and Win. Here's Simone performing "My Love Is a Mountain" at Union Hall in New York City.
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Poets Read Craigslist
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To promote her new book of essays, You Must Go and Win, published by Faber and Faber this month, Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone asked a few poets, including James Copeland, Anna Moschovakis, Matvei Yankelevich, Brett Flecher Lauer, Tao Lin, Claire Donato, and Jeff T. Johnson, to read some Craigslist posts.
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