takes selected works from poets (including Mervyn Peake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, ee cummings, Charles Causley, Rachel Field, Robert Graves, Edward Lear, Jack Prelutsky, Arthur Macy, Ogden Nash, Charles E Carryl, Nathalia Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Christina Rossetti) and sets them to what amounts to a global musical reach. [Natalie] Merchant, who was in Dublin recently to play a very rare one-off intimate show in Whelan's, had the project in mind for years.
"I thought it would be a really interesting exercise, for one," she says. "For years, I've been a singer-songwriter, and I've always done covers, but I just thought it would be great doing a full album of words where I didn't have to draw out the words myself.
from The Irish Times: Childhood, through poetic eyes
also The Sunday Times: Natalie Merchant on her most ambitious project ever
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