Anatomy of a Poet is the eighth studio album from the British electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 duo In the Nursery

In The Nursery

In the Nursery are a neo-classical/martial electronica band, known for their cinematic sound. The duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films.- Career :...

. It includes several tracks featuring samples of author Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

Colin Henry Wilson is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.- Early biography:Born and...

 reading his favourite poetry. The album was released on CD only.

Track listing

All tracks by Klive and Nigel Humberstone except where noted

1. "Bombed" – 5:50
2. "Anatomy of a Poet" – 4:34
3. "In Perpetuum" – 4:49
4. "Motive" – 3:37
5. "Hallucinations?" (dream world mix) – 4:36
6. "Blue Lovers" – 5:47
7. "Paper Desert" – 5:11
8. "Byzantium" – 3:24
9. "Seventh Seal" (Scott Engel) – 5:02
10. "The Golden Journey" – 4:32
11. "Touched with Fire" – 1:58
12. "Hallucinations? (The Tower III)" ("corp012" re-release) – 3:10
13. "November Trees" ("corp012" re-release) – 1:48
14. "Hallucinations? (A Sense of Reality)" ("corp012" re-release) – 8:10

Samples

The following poetry features on the album. It was selected and read by Colin Wilson and recorded on location, Gorran Haven, Cornwall in December 1993.

• "Anatomy of a Poet" includes reading from "Cynara" by Ernest Dowson
  Ernest Dowson
  Ernest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement.- Biography :...
  
  
• "Motive", includes reading from "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
  
• "Byzantium" includes reading from "(Sailing to) Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats
• "The Golden Journey" includes reading from "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker
  James Elroy Flecker
  James Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.-Biography:...
  
  

Personnel

• John Crossley – Remastering
• Jill Crowther – Oboe
• Dominike Duplaa – Design
• Stephen Harris – Producer
• In the Nursery – Producer
• Dolores C. Marguerite – Vocals
• Mark Murphy – Guitar
• Pete Stewart – Assistant Engineer
• Colin Wilson – Narrator, Engineer

External links

• Anatomy of a Poet on band's website