The Poetry Channel
The Podcasts
The Poetry Channel is where you’ll find the finest poets, poems and poetry, for anyone anywhere online.
It’s where you’ll find poetry podcasts – broadcast quality programmes created from the very best of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival’s rich audio archive plus newly recorded, specially commissioned interviews.
The Poetry Channel is where you can have access to the best poets through behind the scenes interviews and short documentaries and profiles. It’s where you’ll find The Poem Show – each episode featuring hand-picked highlights from memorable Aldeburgh performances.
It’s where you’ll want to spend some online time - you can browse the complete Poetry Channel Archive here.
And don’t forget to let us know what you think about the podcasts ( drop us an email) and tell us what you would like to hear next on The Poetry Channel.
The Female Poem – does it exist?
To mark International Women's Day 2010 - Monday 8 March - we've produced a new podcast on The Female Poem. This is an edited version of the lively and wide-ranging discussion chaired by Jo Shapcott during the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2009. Enjoy Maureen Duffy, Pascale Petit and Annie Freud discuss, amongst other things, the horror of being labelled a ‘female poet', whether the male poem is the default position, the importance of ‘outsider art', why ‘miserable guys stalk the poetic world' and whether Donne, Keats and Wyatt wrote ‘female' poems.
The Female Poem discussion at The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was supported by The Poetry Society
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Jamie McKendrick - the art of poetry translation
Jamie McKendrick is the translator of the pre-eminent Italian poet Valerio Magrelli. In this meditative conversation with Robert Seatter he suggests that translation involves revealing the language within the language and immersing yourself in the unique and distinct tongue of the individual writer.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Sasha Dugdale - the art of poetry translation
Sasha Dugdale has won huge acclaim for her translations of Elena Shvarts, one of Russia's greatest contemporary poets. With Robert Seatter she discusses how Shvarts's extraordinarily eccentric view of the world has influenced her own poetry.
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