Alastair Reid: Oddments Inklings Omens Moments

 

Alastair Reid (1926-2014) was a Scottish poet, journalist, and teacher. I first read his poems in the 1957 "New Poets of England and America" anthology from Meridian Books, and found him sweet and surreal. I was delighted to find out he'd recorded this album of his own work for the American spoken word label CMS in 1967. Reid's poems will shoot little pleasure bullets at you from a number of directions but the grenade for me is "In Memory of My Uncle Timothy", a nutty miniature that I'll say nothing more about and leave for you to discover. To read more about Reid and his life/lives and work please check out Julie Larios' appreciation from 2014, "Alastair Reid: A Sunstruck Madman".

Ghosts' Stories
Calenture
Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments
Cat-Faith
Who Am I?
A Note from the Coast
What's What
The Syntax of Seasons
For Her Sake
The O-Filler
Speaking a Foreign Language
Was, Is, Will Be
Spain, Morning
A Game of Glass
Growing, Flying, Happening
In Memory of My Uncle Timothy
For Ring-Givers
Pigeons
Ghosts
Disguises
A Lesson for Beautiful Women
Small Sad Song
The Tale the Hermit Told
Old Painter to Young Model
Casa d'Amunt
Outlook, Uncertain
A Homecoming
What Bones Say
Curiosity
The Figures on the Frieze
Me to You
The Spiral
Frog Dream

Album audio & artwork
 

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