New Poems


Read by Bruce Kachuk

This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing to both delight and amaze, Lawrence's poems exhibit an insight that elevates them to a level of splendid uniqueness. These are poems that come from the heart and mind of one who has watched the unspeakable destruction of war wreak havoc across Europe, one who has witnessed the devastation inflicted on his country by an immense power that must be overcome and defeated. This is a also a poet who knows that despite unimaginable privation, everyday life must and will continue, and everyday psychological trauma must and will continue - and as such both must and will be eternally etched by the poet in the literary record.

These are poems of the present, of facets of human existence in all its diversity, of aspects of life revealed with an intensity fitting their urgency. The urgency and resilience of life - the determination to persevere in the face of adversity - ebbs and flows through these superb poems like the narrative of a river whose, "invisible tide / Threads and thrills like ore that is wealth to the eye." And yet this pseudo-sentient river, this "pouring measure / Of death-producing wine," solemnly comes with the poetic assurance of salvation, of elegiac deliverance, and with the promise, "By heaven and earth and hellish stream / To break this sick and nauseous dream / We writhe and lust in, both."


Indeed, if a dream it is in which we "writhe and lust," if "souls of the dead / In stupor persist at the gates of life," it is a dream fully understood and clearly elucidated by this poet, this seer, this literary master.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk
(1 hr 16 min)

Chapters

Apprehension 1:10 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Coming Awake 0:54 Read by Bruce Kachuk
From a College Window 1:07 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Flapper 1:16 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Birdcage Walk 0:41 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree 1:32 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Flat Suburbs, S.W., in the Morning 1:12 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Thief in the Night 0:44 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March 2:16 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Suburbs on a Hazy Day 1:14 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Hyde Park at Night: Clerks 1:38 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Gipsy 0:46 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Two-Fold 0:41 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Under the Oak 1:46 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Sigh no More 1:50 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Love Storm 2:04 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Parliament Hill in the Evening 1:01 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street Walkers 1:53 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Tarantella 1:46 Read by Bruce Kachuk
In Church 1:03 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Piano 1:25 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Embankment at Night: Charity 1:30 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Phantasmagoria 2:13 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Next Morning 1:56 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Palimpsest of Twilight 0:59 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Embankment at Night: Outcasts 5:35 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Winter in the Boulevard 1:38 Read by Bruce Kachuk
School on the Outskirts 1:17 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Sickness 1:28 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Everlasting Flowers 2:26 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The North Country 2:06 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Bitterness of Death 3:28 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Seven Seals 3:06 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Reading a Letter 1:31 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Twenty Years Ago 1:06 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Intime 3:17 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Two Wives 6:41 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Heimweh 1:16 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Debacle 2:09 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Narcissus 1:32 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Autumn Sunshine 1:47 Read by Bruce Kachuk
On That Day 1:33 Read by Bruce Kachuk