Peake's Progress (CD)
Selected Short Stories & Poems
A combination of short stories and poetry from Peake's Progress, including the epic 'Rhyme of the Flying Bomb', a selection of his nonsense verse, and some of the poems that resulted from his visit to the concentration camp in Belsen, Germany. The short stories were all written after the war and reveal his mastery of this difficult genre. They include 'The Weird Journey', 'Same Time Same Place', and 'Danse Macabre', originally told to family and friends round the fire on Boxing Night 1954.About the authorMervyn Peake was a writer, artist, poet and playwright, best-known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast Trilogy, and his stunning illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.Maeve Gilmore was Mervyn Peake's wife. She edited several books pertaining to different aspects of Peake's work, and was an artist in her own right.
Sebastian Peake and Fabian Peake are Mervyn Peake's sons.
Track listing
1. The Weird Journey. Reader: Sebastian Peake. Duration: 17.33.
2. Sing I the Fickle, Fit-for-Nothing Fellows. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.21.
3. The Cocky Walkers. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.53.
4. Rhondda Valley. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 3.47.
5. Palais De Danse. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.53.
6. I Bought A Palm-Tree. Reader: Sebastian Peake. Duration: 11.28.
7. The Shapes. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 3.40.
8. London, 1941. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 2.04.
9. The Consumptive, Belsen 1945. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 3.10.
10. Victims. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.00.
11. Danse Macabre. Reader: Sebastian Peake. Duration: 26.45.
12. The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 28.32.
13. The Connoisseurs. Reader: Sebastian Peake. Duration: 5.50.
14. Five Rhymes without Reason: The Giraffe. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.48.
15. Five Rhymes without Reason: The Jailor And The Jaguar. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.30.
16. Five Rhymes without Reason: How Mournful To Imagine. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.42.
17. Five Rhymes without Reason: The Hippopotamus. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.17.
18. Five Rhymes without Reason:I Waxes And I Wanes, Sir. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.30.
19. Nonsense Poems: How Good It Is To Be Alone. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.53.
20. Nonsense Poems: Aunts And Uncles. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 2.16.
21. Nonsense Poems: The Bull-frog And The Flies. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 2.54.
22. Nonsense Poems: O Here It Is And There It Is… Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.42.
23. Nonsense Poems: The Trouble With Geraniums. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.55.
24. Same Time, Same Place. Reader: Sebastian Peake. Duration: 23.37.
25. To Maeve. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.43.
26. In The Fabric Of This Love. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.33.
27. Absent From You Where Is There Corn And Wine? Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.58.
28. For Maeve. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.55.
29. Because Last Night My Child Clung To My Neck. Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.15.
30. Poem (My Arms Are Rivers). Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 1.40.
31. Poem (When I Was Wounded). Reader: Fabian Peake. Duration: 0.44
