Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Anthony Burgess reads the first part of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, from a recording discovered in the audio collections of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

This video is part of the Burgess Foundation's online exhibition Anthony Burgess and Poetry, launched to coincide with the publication of Burgess's Collected Poems.

To see more of the exhibition, visit anthonyburgess.org

Collected Poems by Anthony Burgess is published by Carcanet, and available to order now. For more, visit: bit.ly/burgesspoems