"Poets read their poems in all kinds of styles: those who are hunched and intense or relaxed and conversational, or those who hector or lecture their audience, or over-explain or apologise, or crack gags to puncture the slightly tense silence that descends in each poem’s wake. What is now rare is the kind of quavery shamanic intoning – as if summoning demons – practised by WB Yeats, who was born 150 years ago this June."<iframe width="560" height="420" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u2FT4_UUa4I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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