Vita Sackville-West Reads from ‘The Land’

Vita Sackville-West (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962) was an English poet, novelist and garden designer, but is probably best known today for her relationship with Virginia Woolf, immortalised in Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography.

A successful and prolific novelist, poet, and journalist during her lifetime— Sackville-West was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems.

Today, we’re listening to The Land, read by the author and it’s beautiful.