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Category Archives: Lyrics

The Sparkler – A Hallowe’en Poem

October 31, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Doings, Lyrics, Poetry | tagged amwriting, Hallowe'en, Halloween, Poem, Poetry, song, sparkler, sparkly | Leave a comment

It’s suddenly transformed
into a magic wand…

Radio, Radio

April 11, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Doings, Lyrics | tagged amwriting, Emily Hall, radio, Radio 3, song cycles, Toby Litt | Leave a comment

Two things you can listen to, if you feel like it.

On Radio 3.

A Leonard Cohen Song

November 22, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Lyrics, Poetry | tagged Leonard Cohen, song, Thanks for the Dance

On the occasion the release of his latest long-playing record, ‘Thanks for the Dance’, here’s a song of thanks for Leonard Cohen.   A Singer Sang a Song   To you, far off but sailing near, to you, so close you disappear, and you, whose distance is unclear –             a singer did not get […]

Life Cycle: Last Lyric

February 1, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Lyrics | tagged Aurora Orchestra, Emily Hall, Mara Carlyle, song cycle

This is the final lyric that wasn’t used in Life Cycle. You can get an idea of how it would have sounded by listening to ‘The First Turn‘. A mother addresses her baby, that has just turned itself over for the second time. Life Cycle will be performed on Saturday 2nd February at King’s Place. […]

Life Cycle: More Lyrics 2

January 30, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Lyrics | tagged Aurora Orchestra, Emily Hall, Mara Carlyle, song cycle

In the second posting of lyrics that weren’t used in the final version of the song cycle I wrote with Emily Hall, this is something a little bleak. A new mother considers her former self. Life Cycle is being performed this Saturday, February 2nd, in London, at King’s Place.   The funeral   I’d like […]

Life Cycle: More Lyrics 1

January 28, 2019 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Lyrics | tagged Aurora Orchestra, Emily Hall, Mara Carlyle, song cycle | 1 Comment

This Saturday, Life Cycle – music by Emily Hall, words by me – is being performed in a new orchestral version by the Aurora Orchestra. This is happening at King’s Place. The wonderful Mara Carlyle is singing, and the brilliant John Reid is playing piano. In advance of that, I thought I’d post some lyrics […]

Politics/Poems

April 26, 2018 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Lyrics, Poetry | tagged amwriting, Donald Trump, Poetry, Political poetry | Leave a comment

Today is the launch day of New Poetries 7, the occasional Carcanet anthology of new and not-established poets. I am very happy to be one of them. Most of the poems by me included in the anthology are lyrical. But the opening few are from a sequence I wrote the day Donald Trump won the […]

Emily Hall

December 6, 2017 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Doings, Lyrics | tagged Emily Hall, requiem, Rest, songs, songwriting | Leave a comment

I’ve done quite a bit of lyric writing for the composer Emily Hall. Click on her name for a previous blog about our collaborations. Emily has now issued the three main song cycles we’ve done as very beautifully designed and printed scores. A recording of Life Cycle, made by Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John […]

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