Poetry Recordings: Christopher Logue

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

CC.1.3.7.E CC.1.3.7.E

Analyze how the structure or form of a text contributes to its meaning.

CC.1.3.7.H CC.1.3.7.H

Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

L.F.1.3.2 L.F.1.3.2

Summarize the key details and events of a fictional text, in part or as a whole.

CC.1.3.9-10.K CC.1.3.9-10.K

Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.

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Poetry Recordings

Click here to access the poetry recording of Christopher Logue as well as a brief biography of this author.

Description

Christopher Logue (b. 1926) has spent over forty years working on his contemporary version of Homer's Iliad. Begun in 1959, the project has expended into five full-length collections, known collectively as War Music. From this page, you can hear the voice of Christopher Logue reading one of his poems, "All Day Permanent Red - an extract."

Content Provider

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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Poetry Recordings: Christopher Logue