Scenes from Crow

by Benjamin Dwyer

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1.
Legends 02:15
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2.
The Black Beast 05:47
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3.
Crow's Vanity 07:58
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4.
Conjuring in Heaven 08:55
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5.
Crow Improvises 12:35
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Glimpse 06:15
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Magical Dangers 04:58
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Littleblood 02:52
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"Walking around with Ted Hughes’s Crow in your pocket is like walking around with a flick knife. That’s how powerful and dangerous this poetry is. I remember when I started reading the first few poems.
I was immediately transfixed not only by the sheer ritualistic weight
of the words, the repetition of phrases — ‘Black was the without eye /
Black the within tongue / Black was the heart’ (‘Two Legends’) —
but also by the shocking and visceral imagery: ‘Screaming for Blood /
Grubs, crusts / Anything // Trembling featherless elbows in the nest’s
filth’ (‘Lineage’). This was not refined verse, but poetry bent on
revenge. I couldn’t put the book down. I still can’t."

Extract from 'Transcendence Interrupted: Composing Scenes from Crow' by Benjamin Dwyer

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released February 20, 2014

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VOX21 Ensemble

Sylvia O’Brien - Soprano
Peter Wells - Recorders (tenor, bass)
Kenneth Edge - Saxophones (bass, alto); megaphone
Mathew Manning - Oboe; whistle
Susan Doyle - Flutes (piccolo, flute, alto flute)
Leonie Curtin - Violin
Kate Ellis - Cello
Roberto Oliviera - Percussion

Director - Dermot Dunne
Coordinator - Brian Farrell

Recorded in Studio One, RTÉ Radio Centre, Dublin
Engineered by Darby Carroll
Mastered by James Blennerhassett, Darby Carroll
and Benjamin Dwyer at the Doghaus Studio, Sligo
Produced by Benjamin Dwyer
Executive Producer for Diatribe – Nick Roth

Graphic design by David Donohoe studio
Drawings/Lithographs by Johannes Heisig

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