LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". (

Latest episodes of the podcast November by John Clare

• November - Read by AG
• November - Read by ALP
• November - Read by AR
• November - Read by CAM
• November - Read by CJC
• November - Read by CJ
• November - Read by CMP
• November - Read by DL
• November - Read by DRB
• November - Read by DRFJ
• November - Read by EM
• November - Read by EMH
• November - Read by GB
• November - Read by GC
• November - Read by JCM
• November - Read by JM2
• November - Read by LLW
• November - Read by PJW
• November - Read by RN
• November - Read by WT