Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything

Double vinyl LP pressing. Almost Everything. Is a two-part album. The first, features 15 of Ireland's best-loved artists reading Kavanagh's poetry against the backdrop of a truly stunning musical composition. The second, is a remaster of the 1964 album from Claddagh Records, the only recording of Patrick Kavanagh reading his own poetry. The sleeve notes include fellow poet John Montague's description of Kavanagh as a writer who already has his place among the Irish immortals, both as a personality and a poet.""

Disc 1

1. On Raglan Road (read by Bono)
2. Stony Grey Soil (read by President Michael D. Higgins)
3. Memory of My Father (read by Liam Neeson)
4. Canal Bank Walk (read by Imelda May)
5. Peace (read by Hozier)
6. Inniskeen Road: July Evening (read by Lisa McGee)
7. In Memory of my Mother (read by Kathleen Watkins)
8. Hospital (read by Lisa Hannigan)
9. Pegasus (read by Rachael Blackmore)
10. October (read by Christy Moore)
11. Shancoduff (read by Aisling Bea)
12. Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (read by Evanna Lynch)
13. Extract from ‘The Great Hunger’ (read by Aidan Gillen)
14. Christmas Childhood (read by Sharon Corr)
15. Epic (read by Jessie Buckley)

Disc 2

1. Autobiographical Prose
2. Same Again
3. Jungle
4. Narcissus and the Women
5. Epic
6. God in Woman
7. Kerr’s Ass
8. Peace
9. Hospital
10. On the Death of Jim Larkin
11. Extract from ‘The Great Hunger’
12. Living in the Country: Pt. 1
13. Dear Folks
14. Miss Universe
15. About Reason, Maybe
16. To Hell With Commonsense
17. October
18. Come Dance With Kitty Stobling
19. Prelude
20. Having Confessed

Label: Decca

Catalog: 4528695

Genre: International