Prom 23 (20.08.21) - Rameau's operas/Mozart's Requiem

[A Robyn]

Ed...."two bassett horns, two bassett hounds..." do you know the poem? Couldn't find it via google just now & I've forgotten which poet...I bet Padraig would know...

Edwin Morgan - An Addition to the Family?

[jayne lee wilson]

Edwin Morgan - An Addition to the Family?

That is the very one....! Thank you so much.....
In the kitchen earlier, then watching The 100 finals, I was thinking.... hang on ....Edwin...Muir...no, wait a minute.. ....then the Cats clamoured for their second meals....and the Cricket got very exciting....

But what a lovely, deftly witty poem it is....thanks again. I think I first encountered it read aloud by the poet on R3, might have been on George Macbeth's show....
Such a joyous ending...!

[edashtav]

Edwin Morgan - An Addition to the Family?

Very apt.

Edwin Morgan

“ […] And later, wondering farmers as they past would hear
Behind the lighted window in the autumn evening air
Two handsome mellow-bosomed basset-hounds,
Howling to a melodious basset-horn.

[BBMmk2]

JLW, I think that’s what I thought. Not being intense or dramatic enough. I found it a bit too light of touch, for my liking.