The son of the poet Luigi Ballerini, he has recorded, to great acclaim, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle and Tolstoy’s War and Peace, among many others. audiobooks”, as the New York Times has called him. He is a performer whose name alone can draw audiences to an audiobook – “the Vladimir Horowitz of. ‘Edoardo Ballerini is widely regarded as the brightest star of the audiobook era, one of the finest readers of literature alive today. The audiobook will be published on 4 January 2022 to mark the beginning of the centenary year and to coincide with the anniversary of Eliot’s death.Ĭlare Reihill, of the T. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Portrait of a Lady’, ‘The Boston Evening Transcript’, ‘The Hollow Men’, ‘Journey of the Magi’ and ‘Animula’.

Poems in this recording also include ‘The Love Song of J. Eliot’s landmark poem, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, one of the finest readers of literature alive today. Eliot Foundation, Faber has commissioned a new recording of T. The result is an engrossing story of lives passing in opposing directions: Eliot’s into redemptive stardom, Vivien’s into isolated despair, Pound’s into unforgiving darkness. Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the fabric of the work. He tells the story of the cultural and personal trauma that forged the poem through the interleaved lives of its protagonists – of Ezra Pound, who edited it, of Vivien Eliot, who endured it, and of T. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the Making of a Masterpiece (September 2022), Matthew Hollis reconstructs the genesis of the poem and brings its times vividly to life. In this riveting account, The Waste Land: T.

To mark the centenary in 2022, Faber is delighted to announce new publishing and an exciting work of non-fiction by award-winning biographer and Faber Poetry Editor, Matthew Hollis. Eliot’s The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation.

The waste land a biography of a poem