The Old Year: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Old Year, credited to John Clare, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Old Year by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 29, 2013. Read in English by Ann Simmons; Claudia Salto; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garth Burton; Jason Mills; Joe Weinmunson; Julia Niedermaier; Lee Ann Howlett; Michael Keen; ravenotation; Stephen Perry; and Scott Birney. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". (Summary from Wikipedia )

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Old Year
• Author credits: John Clare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 17:26

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• holiday
• new years

Track guide

1. 01 - The Old Year - Read by AS — 1:26
2. 02 - The Old Year - Read by CCS — 1:40
3. 03 - The Old Year - Read by DL — 1:18
4. 04 - The Old Year - Read by EEP — 1:30
5. 05 - The Old Year - Read by GB — 1:25
6. 06 - The Old Year - Read by JCM — 1:18
7. 07 - The Old Year - Read by JCW — 1:06
8. 08 - The Old Year - Read by JN — 1:20
9. 09 - The Old Year - Read by LAH — 1:14
10. 10 - The Old Year - Read by MJK — 1:04
11. 11 - The Old Year - Read by RN — 1:33
12. 12 - The Old Year - Read by SP — 1:11
13. 13 - The Old Year - Read by SRB — 1:21

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