Faber's 80th anniversary event

22 Oct 2009

Faber's 80th anniversary evening at the Soutbank Centre in London (October 2009). Featuring Seamus Heaney, Wendy Cope, Daljit Nagra, Alice Oswald and Paul Muldoon reading from their own work and a Faber poet from the backlist. This video includes:

Seamus Heaney reading The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes.

Alice Oswald reading Samuel Beckett's Rockaby.

Paul Muldoon reading The Wasteland, section II: A Game of Chess, by T S Eliot.

Wendy Cope reading First Sight by Philip Larkin.

Daljit Nagra reading his own poem This Be The Pukka Verse.

Wendy Cope reading her own poem Flowers.

Alice Oswald reading her own poem I'm Waiting For a Barn Owl.

Seamus Heaney reading his own poem Digging.

Seamus Heaney reading his own poem Stern.