Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything (Gatefold Double Vinyl)

Released by Claddagh Records in September 2022 to mark the label's 60th anniversary. It pairs a reissue of Kavanagh's own 1964 Claddagh recording, the only album the Monaghan poet ever made, with a new disc of his work read by Bono, Michael D. Higgins, Liam Neeson, Imelda May, Hozier, Christy Moore, Jessie Buckley, Lisa Hannigan, Aidan Gillen and others, set to original music by Cormac Butler. Includes a booklet of the poems.

Tracklist:

Disc One (guest readings)

1. On Raglan Road (Bono)
2. Stony Grey Soil (Michael D. Higgins)
3. Memory of My Father (Liam Neeson)
4. Canal Bank Walk (Imelda May)
5. Peace (Hozier)
6. Inniskeen Road: July Evening (Lisa McGee)
7. In Memory of My Mother (Kathleen Watkins)
8. The Hospital (Lisa Hannigan)
9. Pegasus (Rachael Blackmore)
10. October (Christy Moore)
11. Shancoduff (Aisling Bea)
12. Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (Evanna Lynch)
13. Extract from The Great Hunger (Aidan Gillen)
14. A Christmas Childhood (Sharon Corr)
15. Epic (Jessie Buckley)

Disc Two (read by Patrick Kavanagh)

1. Autobiographical Prose
2. The Same Again
3. Jungle
4. Narcissus and the Women
5. Epic
6. God in Woman
7. Kerr's Ass
8. Peace
9. The Hospital
10. On the Death of Jim Larkin
11. Extract from The Great Hunger
12. Living in the Country: Part One
13. Dear Folks
14. Miss Universe
15. About Reason, Maybe
16. To Hell With Commonsense
17. October
18. Come Dance With Kitty Stobling
19. Prelude
20. Having Confessed