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BREAKING NEWS - Please note, our Pre Raphaelites performance, due to take place on the 23rd, and Around the World in 80 Poems, due ot take place on the 26th have been postponed to April... further details to follow - Our new album, Live Canon On Love is on sale BUY IT HERE

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January 23rd - 26th, 2012, 7.30pm - Live Canon Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre

Join us for the second part of our Bloomsbury Series.... for a whistlestop tour of the 'canon'...
January 24th Shakespeare and Co.
January 25th The Bloomsbury Group

Featuring performances from Anthony Shuster, Simon Muller, Alice Barclay, Alex Blake, James Scott, Claire Redcliffe...

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On the 24th January, it's Shakespeare and Contemporaries with poetry by Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton, Sir John Davies, John Webster, Sir Henry Wooton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, Sir Thomas Wyatt and others. Performed by Alex Blake, James Scott and Claire Redcliffe.

On the 25th January, it's a rare opportunity to hear poetry by the Bloomsbury Group - including unpublished poetry by Virginia Woolf, and rare treats from John Lehmann, Leonard Woolf and Clive Bell, plus poems by Julian Bell, Sidney Saxon Turner, Lytton Strachey, Rose Macauley and Vita Sackville West. Performed by Alice Barclay, Simon Muller and Anthony Shuster.




Live Canon have a new online shop, where you can buy our anthologies and CDs, visit here.

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Performed by Holly Atkins, Alice Barclay, Simon Muller and Anthony Shuster.

1. Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare. 2. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Thomas Moore. 3. The Passionate Shepherd to his love, Christopher Marlowe. 4. The Prohibition, John Donne. 5. The Good Morrow, John Donne. 6. The Bargain, Sir Philip Sidney. 7. To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell. 8. Love’s Witness, Aphra Behn. 9. Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare. 10. To My Dear and Loving Husband, Anne Bradstreet. 11. If thou shalt love me, let it be for nought, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 12. Genius in beauty, Gabriel Dante Rossetti. 13. She Walks in Beauty, George Gordon Lord Byron. 14. “Why do I love” You, Sir?, Emily Dickinson. 15. The Clod and the Pebble, William Blake. 16. How Do I Love Thee?, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 17. First Day, Christina Rossetti. 18. Love, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 19. Love's Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley. 20. Love is Enough, William Morris. 21. First Love, John Clare. 22. The Kiss, Charlotte Dacre. 23. A Birthday, Christina Rossetti.

 

Friday 24th February 2012, 5pm - Oxford Playhouse - Around the World in 80 Poems

Live Canon are back at the Oxford Playhouse to circumnavigate the globe in poetry. With classic poems from every continent and contemporary work from all cultures, performed in English translation, this is a whirlwind romp around the planet. With haiku balloons, poems in fortune cookies, verses on maps and luggage labels... this is an entertaining and accessible world tour.

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ANTHOLOGIES

Anthology 2011

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