Barrie
Barrie is a retired senior lecturer in English literature. He is an experienced and enthusiastic public reader of Australian bush poetry.
"I conduct the local U3A literature class, and am prominent as a reader in the local, Bayside Literary Festival."
Barrie's presentations include.........
Banjo, Henry and C J
The lives of Australia's Paterson, Lawson and Dennis.
Nostalgia
Readings and poems from School Readers used in Victorian Primary Schools 1930s - 1960s.
Comical Poems
"A story of a joke in a barber's shop that goes horribly wrong; a boy christened with a whiskey bottle; a bike ride that ends in disaster in a creek; and other hilarious yarns"
Have a good laugh, lighten your day, listening to side-splitting poems.
Who Was Shakespeare?
Hear about Shakespeare, his life and times, and readings of some of the most famous speeches from his plays.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens: hear about his childhood, how it influenced his adult life, and found expression in his work, with dramatic readings from Bleak House, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
Three Great Children’s Authors
Three Great Children's authors: A. A. Milne, Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Graham - hear about how their lives led to their great masterpieces, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit and The Wind in the Willows, with readings from these works.
Great Speeches of the 20th Century
Great Speeches of the 20th century. Hear the great speeches of Churchill, F.D Rooseveldt, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Maggie Thatcher, and others, in their own voices, and learn of the context and circumstances of their delivery.
Readings with commentary of some of Australia's leading poets: Judith
Wright, Margaret Scott, Les Murray, and others. Copies of the poems
will be supplied.
Favourite Poems 1
A reading of poems selected from the works of the great poets, in
particular, Shakespeare, Robert Burns William Blake and Lord Byron
Favourite Poems 2
A reading of poems William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
John Keats and Alfred Lord Tennyson
War Poems
Barrie is a retired senior lecturer in English literature. He is an experienced and enthusiastic public reader of Australian bush poetry.
"I conduct the local U3A literature class, and am prominent as a reader in the local, Bayside Literary Festival."
Barrie's presentations include.........
Banjo, Henry and C J
The lives of Australia's Paterson, Lawson and Dennis.
Nostalgia
Readings and poems from School Readers used in Victorian Primary Schools 1930s - 1960s.
Comical Poems
"A story of a joke in a barber's shop that goes horribly wrong; a boy christened with a whiskey bottle; a bike ride that ends in disaster in a creek; and other hilarious yarns"
Have a good laugh, lighten your day, listening to side-splitting poems.
Who Was Shakespeare?
Hear about Shakespeare, his life and times, and readings of some of the most famous speeches from his plays.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens: hear about his childhood, how it influenced his adult life, and found expression in his work, with dramatic readings from Bleak House, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
Three Great Children’s Authors
Three Great Children's authors: A. A. Milne, Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Graham - hear about how their lives led to their great masterpieces, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit and The Wind in the Willows, with readings from these works.
Great Speeches of the 20th Century
Great Speeches of the 20th century. Hear the great speeches of Churchill, F.D Rooseveldt, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Maggie Thatcher, and others, in their own voices, and learn of the context and circumstances of their delivery.
Readings with commentary of some of Australia's leading poets: Judith
Wright, Margaret Scott, Les Murray, and others. Copies of the poems
will be supplied.
Favourite Poems 1
A reading of poems selected from the works of the great poets, in
particular, Shakespeare, Robert Burns William Blake and Lord Byron
Favourite Poems 2
A reading of poems William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
John Keats and Alfred Lord Tennyson
War Poems