A Poem For Every Autumn Day: A Light in Dark Times. Starring Helena Bonham Carter & Tobias Menzies

Award-winning actors Helena Bonham Carter, Tobias Menzies and Jamael Westman join Allie Esiri at Edinburgh International Book Festival for A Poem for Every Autumn Day: A Light in Dark Times, directed by Paul Weiland, with fascinating introductions to each poem written and introduced by Allie Esiri. With poems selected from Allie Esiri’s anthology, A Poem for Every Autumn Day.
A glorious film, with first class performances.
More info on Allie’s books, audiobooks, shows and poetry app, please visit:
Website www.allieesiri.com
Twitter @allieesiri
Instagram @allieesiri
Curator and presenter
Allie Esiri
Lute Player / Music Composer
Andrew Maginley
Little Frieda
Elfie Weiland
Director
Paul Weiland
Producer
Madeleine Sanderson
Production Assist
Sophia Nagar
Lighting Cameraman
Henry Braham
First Assistant Camera
Dermot Hickey
Nano Head Technician
Joe Marsden
Sound Recorder
Patrick Owen
Make-up Artist
Louise Constad
Shrimps Wardrobe
Aina Carafi
Editor
Louise MacGregor
Photographer
Ana Cuba
Second Unit
Max Weiland
Joe Weiland
Sound Design
Nicholas Davies
Catering
Kathy Crowley
Tina Stubings
Running List:
Hurrahing in Harvest by Gerard Manley Hopkins read by Tobias Menzies (01:45)
The Hurt Boy and the Birds by John Agard read by Jamael Westman (03:20)
A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson read by Helena Bonham Carter (04:53)
The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker read by Jamael Westman (05:28)
Leaves by Ted Hughes read by Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies (07:32)
The Pheasant by Sylvia Plath read by Helena Bonham Carter (10:31)
Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes read by Tobias Menzies (12:57)
Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore read by Jamael Westman (14:16)
Digging by Seamus Heaney read by Tobias Menzies (16:06)
Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow? read by Jamael Westman (18:18)
Letter to NY by Elizabeth Bishop read by Helena Bonham Carter (19:35)
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley read by Tobias Menzies (21:29)
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith read by Helena Bonham Carter (23:12)
When You Are Old by W. B. Yeats read by Tobias Menzies (24:50)
A Shropshire Lad, XIII by A. E. Housman read by Jamael Westman (25:58)
But I Can't by W. H. Auden read by Tobias Menzies (27:21)
This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams read by Helena Bonham Carter (29:00)
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams read by Tobias Menzies (29:41)
The Guest House by Rumi read by Helena Bonham Carter (30:01)
Love after Love by Derek Walcott read by Helena Bonham Carter (31:40)
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost read by Tobias Menzies (33:12)
Filmed on location at Belcombe Court, Wiltshire, England.

[@bethieboob5604]

I could listen to Helena all day, she has a wonderful reading voice. She would be amazing at audio books

[@anna91.x]

She’s done 4 audio books I believe so far ❤️

[@bunotital]

Secleus

[@normacitra2681]

can you tell me what are those 4? trying to find it but cant@@anna91.x

[@justiceforus5358]

Truth: Helena Bonham Carter could read the back of a cereal box to me and I would become mesmerized, transfixed and in total bliss.

[@javiercaviles]

21:25 okay, but why is no one talking about that kiss she gave us? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@HelenaBonhamCarter56]

Know I know right 🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭❤️🌹🌹

[@chelseam639]

This is excellent and should really be getting more hype. Love Helena's readings

[@emeraldaj7687]

The mix between poetry and the beautiful and calm filmed nature is amazing 💫🌻

[@Tavita221]

I love this, though I wish they would drop the music, I want to listen to the poems and the voices with no distractions. Also, if they could pause for two or three seconds after each poem so one can contemplate it just a bit before immediately jumping to the narrator that would be nice too. As it is, the immediate shift from the last word of the poem to the narrator talking is jarring. They dropped the music for the penultimate and last poems and that was perfect.

[@-bellatrixlover-]

The kiss she gave us and the smile and the way she just reads is so beautifully done,I love listening to her poems there just so caring I need more of these🥹❤️‍🔥😍

[@turkeysub7168]

Helena knew what she was doing 🥵

[@morguebones]

literally

[@chocoprrrswwwwnn]

RIGHT

[@-bellatrixlover-]

IN IT

[@anna91.x]

Aw how can she not make you feel happy. I wish there were more people like HBC. She jsur radiates a warm soul 🔥

[@julie5310]

The background sounds of the burning logs in the hearth and the various gardens enhance power of the poems immeasurably.

[@cupofteawithpoetry]

I love finding Helena poetry readings!

[@annemariepedersen5616]

I have been finding a few of these readings on IG and am so pleased to see the full event. Wonderful choices for readers 👏👏👏

[@charmaineclayton2018]

I am so happy I found this poetry to listen to , it calms me soo , grazie mille from Veneto Italy.. where I feel very lonely, even if I here in this beautiful county , when you don't speak or listen to our beautiful English, one get lonely , thank you for such a beautiful poetry ❤

[@rach650]

Gahh! Helena! 🤤😍💜 I could listen to her talk about anything, but reading poems is mesmerizing!

[@dandaramm]

21:27 I'm in love 😍

[@kasekuchen9350]

Its so beautiful i love helena

[@cupofteawithpoetry]

Me too 🙂

[@Stephanie-hn3yn]

I would love to see these folks do a reading live! ❤️

[@nanonano03]

Same, it's my dream to see them perform in person...especially HBC. In the meantime, here's the closest i can get to see HBC performing live in front of audience. I wish i was one in the audience watching them perform, but oh well. ^_^ kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXzSh4Gnn7Okqrs

[@gristlevonraben]

Autumn is a dancer, arrayed in gold and red, twirling in the meadows, with leaves upon her head, She's a storm in the hollows, that wets the spider's web, and teams the brooks with minnows, and lays the bears to bed, She blesses hearth and home, with teas and spice and bread, and fills my eyes with glory, when summer's green has fled, She's a fae of the orange moon, reading books that should not be read, She's a mystic of the secret, of the oscillating thread- that winds between the living, and the living we thought were dead! Autumn is a dancer, arrayed in gold and red, twirling in the meadow, with stars above her head.

[@erica024]

[@oneill765]

Lovely stuff that

[@gristlevonraben]

@@oneill765 thank you

[@gidartvideos4536]

Repetí como 15 veces la parte donde Helena lanza un beso, o sea es que, la manera en la que leía y a la vez te miraba a los ojos, y luego lanza ese beso, me mató, simplemente la amo, me parece extraordinaria.

[@jihaneennouhi3416]

i Love it all, and the place is just Magical

[@cece8095]

The crown brought me here 😂.. Tobias’s voice. Wow.

[@sarahkay8436]

[@karenfrench7004]

Thank you all so much!

[@marimonda8]

What good company. The day is whole now. Thank you!

[@richardvorwald5478]

Thank you, poetry outdoors - Keats 'To Autumn' in the Fall.

[@Dl-tt6fh]

Tibias is gorgious

[@spilltheteapoetry]

Morning coffee and a perfect escape. Thank you.

[@johnbrantley5151]

These poems are beautiful thank you everyone.

[@charmaineclayton2018]

Just beuatiful ❤made my Friday

[@dragonmaster909]

Thank you for this

[@thaakirahalexander8452]

This 😍!

[@stewartconacher6552]

Excellent,

[@desib5396]

Ach schön gemacht. Auch wenn ich höchstens die Hälfte vom Text verstanden habe. Thanks for sharing.

[@kidslikestories]

wow

[@feeline1120]

I wish the quality of the video would be a bit better. Nevertheless a wonderful video!

[@user-zn1zf7ew2k]

знаете я на самом деле не знаю английский и совсем не понимаю о чем она говорит но мне так нравится ее голос он меня успокаивает и мне хорошо поэтому я смотрю эти видео

[@fionataylor4269]

💖

[@mammamia17]

Nadie enserio nadie yo descargando el video porque me gustó ekisde🏃‍♀️💨

[@javiercaviles]

JAJAJAJAJJAJA, lo estaba pensando.

[@iryna7409]

Marvelous! I like it immenselly! Mr. Tobias Menzies revealed himself by the other side for me (is it ok to say it in such a way in English?))) I saw him in "Outlander".

[@teresasoller300]

👌👏👏👏

[@oneill765]

I never knew Sylvia had a daughter

[@dan-hh4zz]

5:12

[@lissnelson6421]

what book are they reading from?

[@willowkamps5329]

A poem for every autumn day :) though i did think 'a letter to ny' is in 'a poem for every winter day' haha

[@kmkhyd7860]

Very nice mam 👍 #KMKHYD