Poems from a Norfolk Farmhouse, by Mal Cannell

Poems from a Norfolk Farmhouse

by Mal Cannell

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1.	The Rolling English Road - G K Chesterton 01:33	info	buy track
2.	Mal Cannell, - The Jumblies - Edward Lear 03:19		buy track
3.	Roundabouts and Swings - Patrick R Chalmers 01:48		buy track
4.	Mock Turtle song - Lewis Carroll 01:06		buy track
5.	The Lovliest of Trees - A E Housman 00:29		buy track
6.	Sea-Fever - John Masefield 00:57		buy track
7.	Mal Cannell - The Walrus and The Carpenter - Lewis Carroll 03:48		buy track
8.	Lord Lundy - Hilaire Belloc 02:39		buy track
9.	Come Live With Me and Be My Love and Walter Rileys Reply 02:13		buy track
10.	Mr Daddy Longlegs and Mr Floppy Fly - Edward Lear 03:03		buy track
11.	The Microbe - Hilaire Belloc 00:39		buy track
12.	The Python - Hilaire Belloc 00:39		buy track
13.	The Table and The Chair - Edward Lear 01:18		buy track
14.	Two Old Bachelors - Edward Lear 02:29		buy track

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Norfolk Antique Dealer Mal Cannell reads his favourite poems old and new with his calming Norfolk warmth. These are magical poems to fall asleep to.

"When my sister and I were little, living in a cottage on the edge of a Norfolk marshland village, my dad would read us poems instead of stories as we headed off to sleep. He has a calm voice and a way with rhythm and words which came out through the poems of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and others.

We loved those poems and would request them, some of my favourites and earliest memories are by Edward Lear. We could both hear the poems as we shared a room and it had wooden divider but no door, so that we had our own space, our own tiny rooms.

Over the last few weeks as we are all in our separate spaces, only an hour away in reality but weeks away in physicality he has started reading them again. But this time I asked if he would record them and send them over as I thought it might be a good time to share the readings, a calming bedtime story, or for when it all gets too much and we need an escape from our own heads.

He is Antique Dealer who has always had a love for poetry, literature, and finds the beauty in the simple and intricate. He left school at 16 becoming a technical engineer for BT and at 36 went full time into self-employment buying and selling antiques and handmade carpets. Antiques Dealers all have tall tales to tell, and by default have to have a good imagination to see the beauty in the broken or the unloved. At the moment the shop is closed but the poetry and stories go on."
Laura Cannell - Musician.

Recorded at the kitchen table and in the garden in Norfolk, please find here Poems from a Norfolk Farmhouse read by Mal Cannell.

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released May 5, 2020

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Mal Cannell is a UK based Antiques Dealer and Singer of Traditional Folk Songs. Unearthing treasures is his work. Travelling thousands of miles every year throughout the UK and Europe. During the UK Lockdown we have finally captured him sitting still for long enough to record some of his favourite poetry. ... more