Episode 24 -’the cherished pattern no one can efface’ -The Poetry of Resistance

<p>There will be excerpts from the cycle of poems entitled 'Some Canvasses' on my website <a href='http://www.adriangrscott.com'>www.adriangrscott.com</a> </p> <p>The poem 'What shall I do with the body i've been given' i from Osip Mandelshtam - Selected Poems - Penguin Modern Classics. Other great poetry can be read in the 'Four of Us - Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam'. If you want to read Doctor Zhivago there are some great versions, the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is very good. </p> <p>Good compilations of poetry are 'The Zoo of the New - A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Muldoon' or 'A Poem for Every Night of the Year - Edited by Allie Esiri'. </p>