The Poetry Channel
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Welcome to The Poetry Channel where we add new podcasts every month. All our 'programmes' are available at THE POETRY CHANNEL ARCHIVE. Here you can see our most recent uploads.
Awesome Foursome In Conversation
Prior to their brilliant reading at the Bush Theatre Library in May, we sent The Poetry Trust’s Intern Leti Mortimer (AKA Poetry Editor at Inky Needles) to put some questions to the ‘Awesome Foursome’ - Holly Hopkins, Hannah Lowe, Helen Mort and Katrina Naomi – who were all graduates of the Aldeburgh Seminar.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSPoem Show 16 - Young Poets
Leti Mortimer, poetry editor of online magazine Inky Needles, picks three stand-out poems from Aldeburgh’s Young Poets event in 2012. Caleb Klaces reveals the hauntingly unnatural in ‘One Day Dusk’, Rebecca Perry’s tells of intimacy and heartbreak in ‘The Woman in the Sun, a Letter’ and Andrew McMillan shows graceful sensitivity with ‘In the Night Reaches Dreamed he of Better Places’.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh: Young Poets Discussion
Andrew McMillan conducts a fluent and searching conversation with Rebecca Perry, Caleb Klaces, Warsan Shire about what it means to be a ‘young poet’, discussing attitudes to language, attention spans, writing on paper or laptops, books versus Kindles, and how growing up with the internet has affected their poems.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Julia Copus
Shortlisted for both the Costa Award and TS Eliot Prize for her long-awaited third collection The World’s Two Smallest Humans, Julia Copus talked to Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2012 about writing stories to start with, the revelation of Sylvia Plath, and how radio plays and poems can both work as ‘theatre of the mind’.
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