This poet was a mastery of the dramatic monologue who had art songs written to him by David Mills.
David Mills (bass) David Mills (born 29 January 1929, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian bass singer, poet, composer and actor. Retired now, he had an active international singing career that spanned more than five decades. He has published two books of poetry, "Isobelle, a Novel in Verse" (Toronto 1989) and "The Social Comedy" (Ottawa 1990). He wrote a one-man show, "David Mills - His Poetry and Songs", which premiered in Toronto in 1989 and then toured to numerous Canadian cities in the early 1990s. As a composer he has written a cantata, "Vision of Peace" to texts from the Book of Isaiah, and several art songs to the poetry of Pauline Johnson and Robert Browning. As an actor, he has appeared on CBC TV and in films for Circle Films and Altlantis Films among other production companies.
Seamus Heaney Collected Poems Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD boxed set spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet (some poems span multiple tracks). The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format.