First released: 2001
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Disc 1
- 1.Air0:33
- 2.Professor Tucholsky's Facts2:34
- 3.A Chorus From Antigone2:14
- 4.Good Taste0:56
- 5.The Song of Autobiography6:35
- 6.'Loyal to the King'0:37
- 7.A Singing Prayer5:26
- 8.For My Father4:09
- 9.September Song0:45
- 10.The Song of the Imperial Carrion1:28
- 11.To My Fellow Artists7:08
- 12.Observe Details0:27
- 13.'When I was Serving My Country'1:29
- 14.'His Case is Typical'1:39
- 15.'A Middle-aged man is Approaching an All-night Lavatory'1:23
- 16.Lullaby1:10
- 17.The Song of the Outsider1:30
- 18.I Shall Vote Labour1:26
- 19.To a Friend in Search of Rural Seclusion0:12
- 20.The Story of the Road9:41
- 21.'Cats are Full of Death'1:39
- 22.Caption for a Photograph of Four Organised Criminals2:00
- 23.'I've Worked Here all My Life'0:47
- 24.Madam0:33
- 25.Chinese England0:18
- 26.Five Songs from the Lily-white Boys: The Young Hero Sings a Song of Self-Understanding; The Song of Natural Capital; The Girls' Spare Chorus; Go to the Wall; The Chorale6:12
- 27.Come to the Edge0:23
- 28.Rat, O Rat...1:01
- 29.The Aardvark1:21
- 30.The Isles of Jessamy1:13
- 31.Air for the Witness of a Departure0:32
- 32.'Woke up This Morning'1:10
- 33.Gone Ladies1:29
- 34.Neil's Circular Poem0:58
- 35.Epitaph0:38
- 36.Singles: I was one;I Live a Life of Almost Total Idleness; 'Tis Just as Well; On Days When I Intend to Work; Even on the Night; I Like to Think; Her Body Makes Me Grateful to Nature; If the Nightflights Keep You Awake; Nell; Politely Saying Goodbye; Last Night in London Airport; Last Night in Notting Hill4:02
Disc 2
- 2.Fragment7:19
- 3.New Numbers: Nine Completely Naked Girls; Sodium Lozenges. A car Pulls in; TWO FAINT AT FUNERAL OF SNAKE; Now and Again a Plane Flies Overhead; Friday. Wet Duck.; Sunset of Tinted Glass. Lit Pinnacles; Bliss, Bliss, to see; A Policeman is Walking From London to Glasgow; Being in Italy She Thinks of France; Dear Son; They Said: The Pilot Overshot; I Have a Charming View; Light Follows Light Along the Motorway; Dear Son: I felt so low Tonight I got My Photos out; He Lived Near Here; I Have My Legs Waxed and Bought a new Bikini; ... And Yesterday / While Hanging out My Washing on the Line; You are Accused; Rain in September. In Tuscany. Would You Believe it; Now and Again a Plane Flies Overhead; I Have to Tell You About Mr Valentine; Gunfire Disturbs the Dawn; ... You Must Forgive This Being Typed (by Christopher); Boy, Clear Your Plate! Believe You Me; Roadblocks Surround the City. Bowsers on Runways; Last Night, as I lay Waiting at the Verge of Sleep; I am fed up with You; A Greek who Made Millions in Shipping27:07
- 4.The Girls14:11
- 5.Urbanal7:25
- 6.Oh Come all Ye Faithful0:38
- 7.From Book XXI of Homer's Iliad15:10
Disc 3
- 3.Kings: Prologue.1:03
- 4.Kings: Picture the East Aegean Sea by Night...7:52
- 5.Kings: Long After Midnight...1:23
- 6.Kings: Nine Days of This...28:50
- 7.Kings: The Beach. The Wind Is Up.1:45
- 8.Kings: Water, White Water...5:33
- 9.Kings: But Achilles was not Glad.8:14
- 10.Kings: Who's There?20:37
Disc 4
- 4.Kings: Now all Creation Slept...5:12
- 5.Kings: See Sheep In Spain:23:04
- 6.The Husbands: Think of Those Fields of Light...6:28
- 7.The Husbands: ‘Then Cannon off Lord Menelaos’: ‘Me’9:04
- 8.The Husbands: ‘Well?’1:08
- 9.The Husbands: Snow on Mount Ida.5:44
- 10.The Husbands: Music... An Arch of Bells...8:19
- 11.The Husbands: White Horses on the sea...3:46
- 12.The Husbands: Fierce Chrome12:11
Disc 5
- 5.The Husbands: Athene Comes To God.7:34
- 6.The Husbands: Note Pandar's Facts:2:26
- 7.The Husbands: The Sweetwood Roof.7:00
- 8.The Husbands: Lord Pandar Prays:1:48
- 9.The Husbands: Shield Shade. Odysseus, Ajax...5:07
- 10.The Husbands: Troy. They Lift the Curtains, Paris Looks.3:27
- 11.The Husbands: Raise Your Binoculars.2:36
- 12.Patrocleia: Now Hear This:11:25
- 13.Patrocleia: Before Achilles Sailed to Troy...1:39
- 14.Patrocleia: Hornets Occasionally Nest Near Roads.12:50
- 15.Patrocleia: God and His Wife (Who is His Sister too)2:38
- 16.Patrocleia: ‘Listen, Master!’1:32
- 17.Patrocleia: Dust Like Red Mist.7:24
- 18.Patrocleia: Three Times Patroclus Climbed Troy's Wall.5:46
Disc 6
- 6.GBH: Faultless Horizon. Flattish sea.6:34
- 7.GBH: No Sound. No Movement in the bay6:04
- 8.GBH: Sea-bird's eye View:5:39
- 9.GBH: Achilles' Armour was not Made on Earth.9:32
- 10.GBH: Elsewhere Late Afternoon Goes Lazily Enough.6:22
- 11.GBH: Consider Planes at Touchdown...7:46
- 12.Pax: Rat. Pearl. Onion. Honey:3:33
- 13.Pax: Ever Since Men Began in Time...10:10
- 14.Pax: Cobalt In Heaven...2:47
- 15.Pax: Under the Curve the Keel Makes....7:14
Disc 7
- 7.Red Bird: Tune - Blues Shoes, Poem - Lithe Girl, Brown Girl1:46
- 8.Red Bird: Tune - Moon Clouds, Poem - Steep Gloom Among Pine-trees2:10
- 9.Red Bird: Tune - Bass Time, Poem - Sometimes it's Like You're Dead0:14
- 10.Red Bird: Tune - Pandora, Poem - Drunk as Drunk on Turpentine1:56
- 11.Red Bird: Tune - Stew pot, Poem - Wings Whirr by Moon and Midnight1:45
- 12.Red Bird: Tune - J's Blues, Poem - Can You Trap Shadows Like This?1:40
- 13.Red Bird: Tune - Blue Lament, Poem - Tonight I Write Sadly3:19
- 14.Loguerhythms: Bellini4:00
- 15.Loguerhythms: The Ballad of the Water and the Flame4:35
- 16.Loguerhythms: The Ass's Song3:34
- 17.Loguerhythms: The Liberal Man5:22
- 18.Loguerhythms: Johnny3:49
- 19.Loguerhythms: Sick Man4:32
- 20.Loguerhythms: Things3:34
- 21.Loguerhythms: He0:52
- 22.Loguerhythms: Go to the Wall3:14
- 23.Loguerhythms: The Ballad of the Ape and Judge5:30
- 24.Loguerhythms: The General1:04
- 25.The Arrival of the Poet in the City19:55