This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/mice-other-poems-by-gerald-bullett/
Volunteers outside the USA: Gerald Bullett died in 1958. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955) UNLESS the rule of shorter term applies.
Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. "Mice & Other Poems" is one of a series of small volumes of poetry published after WWI mostly by graduates of the University of Cambridge. The doyen of "Cambridge English", Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, had this to say about the series: "That since the War, young men in extraordinary numbers have taken to expressing themselves in verse is a plain fact, not to be denied: that they choose, as often as not, to express themselves in 'numbers' extraordinary to us can as hardly be contested. But the point is, they have a crowding impulse to say something; and to say it with the emotional seriousness proper to Poetry. For my part, I love the discipline of verse: but I love the impulse better. Time will soften—I hope not too soon, lest it sugar down and sentimentalise—a certain bitterness of resentment observable in this booklet and its next followers: but, as nothing in verse is nobler than true tradition, anything is more hopeful than convention." ( John Burlinson)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33774
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
- Project Code: xbaLdtkN
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Gerald Bullett) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bullett
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 18
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1921
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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Genres for the project: Poetry; Poetry/Single author
Keywords that describe the book: poetry
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Section[number] of Mice & Other Poems. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
[Poem title"]
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Section [number] of Mice & Other Poems by Gerald Bullett. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Then say:
"[Poem title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of poem" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Mice & Other Poems, by Gerald Bullett."
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename miceotherpoems_##_bullett_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. miceotherpoems_01_bullett_128kb.mp3)
- Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Gerald Bullett
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Mice & Other Poems
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.- Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin) - You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: icequeen
- When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
- If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.
Any questions?
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