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The Poetry Channel http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/ en-gb Copyright 2010 The Poetry Trust The Poetry Channel The Poetry Trust The Poetry Channel is where you'll find the finest contemporary poets, poems and poetry. Regular broadcast-quality programmes will bring you the very best of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival's rich audio archive plus newly recorded, specially commissioned interviews with national and international poets. The Poetry Channel is where you'll find the finest contemporary poets, poems and poetry. Regular broadcast-quality programmes will bring you the very best of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival's rich audio archive plus newly recorded, specially commissioned interviews with national and international poets. 180 no Copyright 2010 The Poetry Trustpoetry,poems,poets,Aldeburgh,festival,channel,TrustArts/Literatureinfo@thepoetrytrust.orgThe Poetry Trustpoetry,poems,poets,Aldeburgh,festival,channel,Trust Aldeburgh Conversation: Jane Draycott http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/xs8CLfoZ4uw/ <p>Jane Draycott in a packed 8-minute conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 touching on how good poetry translators have to be good poets; the lure of collaborative projects; the narrative associative power of the international phonetic alphabet; and how being a teacher means she never stops learning.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/APF_11_Draycott_In_Conversation.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/xs8CLfoZ4uw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1133 The Poetry Trust Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:03:59 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1133http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/APF_11_Draycott_In_Conversation.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Maurice Riordan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/0AsEO1IvKbw/ <p>Maurice Riordan talks to Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 about the predicament of being an Irish poet, saying the same prayers as Paul Muldoon, finding his own voice via American poetry, short stories and prose poems, and discovering ‘the music of what happens’.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Riordan.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/0AsEO1IvKbw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1130 The Poetry Trust Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:30:54 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1130http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Riordan.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Chris Wallace-Crabbe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/DUaQ83doJa8/ <p>Chris Wallace-Crabbe in conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011, reflecting on how his writing has changed, keeping copious notebooks, pulling pomp down off its pedestal and why it’s important to ‘peer at things with the incomprehension of a nincompoop’.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Wallace-Crabbe.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/DUaQ83doJa8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1128 The Poetry Trust Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:59:10 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1128http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Wallace-Crabbe.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Fleur Adcock http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/G6bH6FAqBUE/ <p>Fleur Adcock in conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 explaining her 10 year absence from writing poems (because poetry became ‘the day job’ instead of ‘wonderful secret sin’), her early influences, falling in love with facts and why wit shouldn’t conflict with seriousness.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Adcock.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/G6bH6FAqBUE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1127 The Poetry Trust Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:53:24 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1127http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Aldeburgh_Conversation_2011_Adcock.mp3 Welcome to the 23rd International Poetry Festival http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/5frNDrZc_I0/ <p>Christian Campbell - winner of our First Collection Prize - sets the scene for the launch of the  23rd International Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - introduced by Naomi Jaffa featuring a poem from Christian, followed by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Luljeta Lleshanaku (with Penelope Shuttle reading the English translation) and Robert Hass.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/PTFEST_2011_OPEN01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/5frNDrZc_I0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1096 The Poetry Trust Fri, 4 Nov 2011 23:09:56 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1096 Alice Oswald In Conversation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/6PVz4PMSHJo/ <p>After her triumphant performance at The Poetry Prom in Suffolkin August 2011, Alice Oswald – in conversation with Naomi Jaffa – discusses her motivation and approach to writing <em>Memorial</em>, her new book length poem which is a version of Homer's Iliad. This is followed by a short extract from her Prom performance where she introduces and shares the opening three pages.</p> <h2 class="photo_names" style="padding-left: 120px; padding-top:10px;"><a href="http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/podcast_poem/memorial"><strong> click here to read 'Memorial' by Alice Oswald </strong></a></h2> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Alice_Oswald_In_Conversation.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/6PVz4PMSHJo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1050 The Poetry Trust Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:00:19 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1050 Poem Show 11 – Poetry Prom Special http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/rY9S4ZIIHVs/ <p>Three poems from the 2011 Poetry Prom’s magnificent trio of great British women poets: Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay and Alice Oswald, punctuated with feedback from some of the 700+ audience about the live listening experience. ‘Glad of These Times’ allows Helen Dunmore not to moan about modernity; Jackie Kay sweetly follows the course of a life-long friendship with the title poem of her latest collection ‘Fiere’; and Alice Oswald closes with an extract from her book-length poem ‘Dart’ and a striking series of similies about water.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poem_Show_11_Prom_Special.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/rY9S4ZIIHVs" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1044 The Poetry Trust Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:30:56 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1044http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poem_Show_11_Prom_Special.mp3 Philip Levine’s Journeys http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/MvirrYBUP3A/ <p>A giant of American poetry and now the newly appointed US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine memorably appeared at Aldeburgh in 2009 where he enjoyed a conversation with Naomi Jaffa, The Poetry Trust director. In this absorbing, funny and wide-ranging interview, Levine covers growing up as a Jew in anti-semitic Detroit, working for General Motors, finding his voice as a poet, life at college with teachers Lowell and Berryman, his fascination with Lorca and Spain, his love of jazz (and loathing of Wagner), and which writers he could bear to be stuck in a lift with. (45 minutes)</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Philip_Levines_Journeys.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/MvirrYBUP3A" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1033 The Poetry Trust Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:07:13 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1033http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Philip_Levines_Journeys.mp3 Simon Armitage In Conversation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/9ShQ9evo5ts/ <p>Edited highlights of Simon Armitage’s recent sell-out evening at the Ip-Art Festival when he was on great form talking to Poetry Trust director Naomi Jaffa about how Peter Sansom helped him find his voice, early poetry ‘stardom’, the film/poem process and how they provide a voice for young offenders, his big Olympic project – Poetry Parnassus, and lots more.</p> <div class="photo_names">In partnership with Ip-Art, the Ipswich Arts Festival 2011</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Simon_Armitage_In_Conversation.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/9ShQ9evo5ts" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1025 The Poetry Trust Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:34:16 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_1025http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Simon_Armitage_In_Conversation.mp3 Poets’ Hour in the Tower http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/_QR42mg_718/ <p>At the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival we conducted an experiment – inviting poets to take an hour-long retreat up one of the beach’s historic look-out towers, armed with nothing more than pen, paper, water (and biscuits). All we asked in exchange was for them to talk with Nick Patrick (our podcast producer) before and after their ‘incarceration’. Bill Manhire, Dorianne Laux and Jack Underwood were three Festival poets to brave the scarily steep spiral staircase...</p> <div class="photo_names">Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poets_Hour_in_the_Tower.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/_QR42mg_718" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_987 The Poetry Trust Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:44:09 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_987http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poets_Hour_in_the_Tower.mp3 Poetry & Landscape with Alice Oswald http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/M3b5OlqBHCQ/ <p>Nature and the English landscape have always been central to Alice Oswald’s concerns. Alice believes in our need, and in poetry’s power, to connect inner and outer worlds. In a memorable interview with Ariane Koek – at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival back in 2007 – she explores this essential relationship. This interview is full and unedited and longer than our usual podcasts (37 minutes).</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Oswald_Interview.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/M3b5OlqBHCQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_905 The Poetry Trust Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:25:38 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_905http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Oswald_Interview.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Inua Ellams http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/y-mPYB2WOJU/ <p>Are there parallels between writing and martial arts films? Nigerian-born Inua Ellams says definitely – both being all about one-upmanship combined with ‘flow’. He’s also dazzled by the tradition of great writers using the confines of form to create freedom: Shakespeare, Keats, Boland and the best hip-hop artists. “You have to know where you’re coming from to know where you’re going.”</p> <div class="photo_names">Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Ellams_Backchat.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/y-mPYB2WOJU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_896 The Poetry Trust Fri, 27 May 2011 16:30:46 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_896http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Ellams_Backchat.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Bill Manhire http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/QdOmM3XZoOo/ <p>Bill Manhire discusses growing up in 1950s New Zealand, the sense that “real life might be happening elsewhere”, the lack of a national literary tradition and the need to break free of the rather too well-mannered English poetry of his era. He loves how surface order can belie underlying weirdness – because of course it was Grimm’s Fairy Tales that got him started as a writer.</p> <div class="photo_names">Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Manhire_Backchat.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/QdOmM3XZoOo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_895 The Poetry Trust Fri, 27 May 2011 16:17:30 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_895http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Manhire_Backchat.mp3 Poem Show 10 - American Special III http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/6UKLpI5tPqs/ <p>Three poems celebrating language in all its richness from three fine American poets. Barbara Hamby’s ‘Ode to American English' is a 'pill-popping Hungarian ghoulash from Anglo Saxon to Zulu’; Tony Hoagland’s ‘When Dean Young Talks About Wine’ is full of gloriously unlikely metaphors and celebrates the offbeat tongue-in-cheek wine snobbery of the wonderful poet, Dean Young. Ending with Stephen Dunn’s ‘Decorum’ - a poem where lowbrow meets highbrow, showing how choosing the right word is so important (warning: strong language).</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/2011_04_Poem_show_US_special.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/6UKLpI5tPqs" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_880 The Poetry Trust Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:11:06 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_880http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/2011_04_Poem_show_US_special.mp3 Aldeburgh Close Reading: Dorianne Laux http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/2Z6hnIQ4ez4/ <p>Close Readings at Aldeburgh are one of the Festival's most popular events, where we ask a poet to talk about a favourite poem. In 2010 Dorianne Laux introduced us to fellow American Ruth Stone and her powerful poem ‘Curtains’. It'll be useful to have a copy of the poem in front of you while you are listening to this podcast -</p> <h2 class="photo_names" style="padding-left: 120px; padding-top:10px;"><a href="http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/podcast_poem/dorianne-laux"><strong> click here to read 'Curtains' by Ruth Stone  </strong></a></h2> <div class="photo_names">Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/LAUX_CLOSE_READING01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/2Z6hnIQ4ez4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_876 The Poetry Trust Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:04:58 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_876http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/LAUX_CLOSE_READING01.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Marie Howe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/oMr74yRonlU/ <p>Marie Howe in conversation with Nick Patrick at the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, talking about how art gives our hearts the opportunity to break open (or close), her quest to get rid of the desire to be the hero of her own poems, and how “death is always the mother of beauty…”</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/MARIE_HOWE_BACK-CHAT01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/oMr74yRonlU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_875 The Poetry Trust Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:43:30 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_875http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/MARIE_HOWE_BACK-CHAT01.mp3 Aldeburgh’s Open Workshop http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/TP1Ih94JgcY/ <p>What has 800 fingers, 160 feet and 80 heads sprouting fresh ideas and new poems? It’s the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival’s ever-popular mass writing workshop, annually led by Michael Laskey and Jeni Smith. Nick Patrick investigates its collective writing energy and appeal…</p> <div class="photo_names"><br /></div> <div class="photo_names"><em>Generously supported by The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust</em></div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Open_Workshop_Podcast.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/TP1Ih94JgcY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_866 The Poetry Trust Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:10:04 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_866http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Open_Workshop_Podcast.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: Imtiaz Dharker http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/2OgVAuDRi84/ <p>Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with Robert Seatter, discussing her wide range of influences – everything from the lullabies sung by her grandmother, Glaswegian swear words and the importance of the image to her writing.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Dharker_with_Seatter.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/2OgVAuDRi84" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_856 The Poetry Trust Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:29:47 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_856http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Dharker_with_Seatter.mp3 The Poem Show 9 - New Blood http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/YXmfd-yg_hY/ <p>Three poems from the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival by three of the most richly talented young poets on the UK scene. Jack Underwood gives absence a surreal yet touching twist with ‘Your Horse’; there’s Caroline Bird’s wonderfully absurd lament for lost time, ‘Last Tuesday’; and we close with Luke Kennard’s joyfully scornful and exhilaratingly spiteful ‘My Friend’.</p> <div class="photo_names">The New Blood reading was supported by The Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation. Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poem_Show_-_New_Blood_2011.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/YXmfd-yg_hY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_847 The Poetry Trust Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:05:36 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_847http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Poem_Show_-_New_Blood_2011.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: John Glenday http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/csb1cQF3dd8/ <p>John Glenday in conversation with Robert Seatter about the fourteen year incubation period for his acclaimed collection, <em>Grain</em>, the influence of his parents on his poetry, and the urgent necessity of writing a poem. (The 2010 Festival podcasts are supported by the Old Possum's Practical Trust).</p> <div class="photo_names">Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Glenday_Seatter.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/csb1cQF3dd8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_823 The Poetry Trust Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:00:01 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_823http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Glenday_Seatter.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: JO Morgan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/OEkclLPOvek/ <p>JO Morgan talks about the strangeness of winning the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the ‘deep mulling’ involved in writing his prize-winning collection, Natural Mechnical and his subsequent protected writing time on the Suffolk coast.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Morgan_Backchat_2010.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/OEkclLPOvek" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_819 The Poetry Trust Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:41:21 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_819http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Morgan_Backchat_2010.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: Elaine Feinstein http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/saNTMkHiGqA/ <p>Elaine Feinstein in conversation with Robert Seatter, discussing poetry and memoir and the transitions of her enduring and wide-ranging writing life.</p> <div class="photo_names"></div> <p> </p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Feinstein_with_Seatter.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/saNTMkHiGqA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_817 The Poetry Trust Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:51:54 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_817http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Feinstein_with_Seatter.mp3 The Poem Show 8 - Wonderful and Strange http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/-RFgWy-p1FU/ <p>We've plundered the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival archive to bring you a new Poem Show of the wonderful and strange. Prepared to be entertained, appalled and moved. We start with the unique delivery of Lorraine Mariner reading 'Swimming Lesson', followed by American prose poet Russell Edson reading 'Ape' - which people either love or loathe (he really is poetry Marmite!), closing with Jo Shapcott's 'Somewhat Unravelled' - an unsettling yet affectionate look at what happens when we get old.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Wonderful_amp_Strange01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/-RFgWy-p1FU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_804 The Poetry Trust Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:46:28 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_804http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Wonderful_amp_Strange01.mp3 The Poem Show 7 - Modern Life http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/Amer6nNFzdk/ <p>Three poems with a different take on the trials and tribulations of modern living. The refreshing voice of Geoff Hatterlsey reading 'Roaring Trade' followed by the ever droll Connie Bensley bringing the house down in Aldeburgh with 'Twelve things I don't want to hear' and finishing with George Szirtes' prescient pre-banking crisis 'Running Man'.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Modern_Life01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/Amer6nNFzdk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_803 The Poetry Trust Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:12:39 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_803http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Modern_Life01.mp3 Aldeburgh Takeaway 2010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/o68zOwlGYcw/ <p>We asked poets what they'd be taking away from the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Here's what Dorianne Laux, Lars Gustafsson, Imtiaz Dharker, Inua Ellams, Mandy Coe and Marie Howe had to say.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/ALDEBURGH_POETRY_VOX_POP.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/o68zOwlGYcw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_785 The Poetry Trust Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:45:29 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_785http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/ALDEBURGH_POETRY_VOX_POP.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Andrew Motion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/8mHr4BNXUxo/ <p>In a reflective & open conversation, Andrew Motion discusses the moment he 'got poetry', inspirational teaching and not wanting to live in a country of dark theatres & closed libraries with no literature festivals.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/MOTION_PODCAST0101.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/8mHr4BNXUxo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_782 The Poetry Trust Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:29:41 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_782http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/MOTION_PODCAST0101.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: Lars Gustafsson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/9CNQCIJT-Qw/ <p>Celebrated Swedish writer Lars Gustafsson in conversation with Robert Seatter at this year's Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, following a lively discussion on the subject of 'the Writer's responsibility to challenge the establishment'.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/LARS_GUSTARFSON_PODCAST01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/9CNQCIJT-Qw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_780 The Poetry Trust Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:57:48 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_780http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/LARS_GUSTARFSON_PODCAST01.mp3 22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival launch 2010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/VDKyGEXE2aY/ <p>The 22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival kicked off with a 'taster' of the world-class writers who'll be reading over the weekend. Including the UK's Mandy Coe, Ireland's Harry Clifton, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and celebrated American writers Marie Howe and Dorianne Laux.</p> <div class="photo_names"><br />Special thanks to Old Possum's Practical Trust for funding this series of podcasts from the 2010 Festival.</div> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Festival_launch_reception.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/VDKyGEXE2aY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_778 The Poetry Trust Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:12:57 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_778http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/Festival_launch_reception.mp3 The Poem Show 6 - American Special II http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/Rn4NrptKGLQ/ <p>A highlight of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is always the introduction of outstanding American poets. To celebrate this ‘special relationship' we've produced a new Poem Show for The Poetry Channel looking back at three of the most memorable Aldeburgh readings from American writers. Enjoy:</p> <p><strong>Philip Levine</strong> reading 'The Two' - a powerful and evocative poem from his 2009 Aldeburgh reading which won him a standing ovation.<br /><strong>Louis Jenkins</strong> reading 'The Afterlife' - an unexpected way of looking back at the sum of a life <br /><strong>Anne Stevenson</strong> - who is justly celebrated both sides of the Atlantic reading 'Leaving'.</p> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/American_Special01.mp3 ">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/Rn4NrptKGLQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_729 The Poetry Trust Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:43:47 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_729http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepoetrytrust/American_Special01.mp3 Seamus Heaney Poetry Prom highlights http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/fvci7QbOpg4/ <p>Seamus Heaney and fellow-poet and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival co-founder Michael Laskey 'in conversation' at the 2010 Poetry Prom. The pair achieved the remarkable feat of creating an intimate experience for the packed and massive - 800 strong - audience.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Seamus_Heaney_Laskey_PodcastFINAL.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/fvci7QbOpg4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_668 The Poetry Trust Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:19:58 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_668http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Seamus_Heaney_Laskey_PodcastFINAL.mp3 Seamus Heaney reads new poems at the Poetry Prom http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/jcODq10jSOg/ <p>Here Seamus Heaney reads poems from his brand new Faber collection <em>Human Chain</em>. For the 8th successive year the power and relevance of live poetry in the stunning Snape Maltings Concert Hall was abundantly clear</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/HEANEY_POEM_PODCAST.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/jcODq10jSOg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_666 The Poetry Trust Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:10:38 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_666 Seamus Heaney - The Poetry Prom - audience Vox Pop http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/WSE57vAEdjc/ <p>Audience Vox Pop. Following the reading, audience members queuing for the book signing spoke of the ‘privilege' and ‘sense of occasion' of this ‘magical' evening.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/HEANEY_VOX_POP01.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/WSE57vAEdjc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_651 The Poetry Trust Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:21:06 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_651 The Poem Show 5 - Funny Poets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/62wSUPwdddY/ <p>We're having our own Fringe Festival on The Poetry Channel this August with a new Poem Show celebrating three of the UK's most entertaining poets. Enjoy the late, great <strong>Adrian Mitchell</strong> with ‘A Puppy Called Puberty' - which was premiered at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2005 on R4's Kaleidoscope (back in those pre-Front Row days) and ended up on BBC Pick-of-the-Year. <strong>Matt Harvey</strong> celebrates the joys of office pilfering in his hilarious poem ‘Works Perks' and <strong>Helena Nelson</strong> - finds more words to rhyme with banana than you would think possible in a poem originally recorded at her triumphant Poetry Prom in 2007.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/fun_poem_show_june10.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/62wSUPwdddY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_647 The Poetry Trust Thu, 5 Aug 2010 08:44:52 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_647http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/fun_poem_show_june10.mp3 All the latest from the Bard of Wimbledon http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/WxNMLAd3Ces/ <p>Join the Bard of Wimbledon - Matt Harvey - as he reflects on the great British sport of queuing and takes a look at the tennis as well. Amidst the sound of popping champagne corks and the thwok of balls he "inflicts his poetry - in a well meaning sort of way" on the fans at SW19.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Wimbledon_2nd_podcast.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/WxNMLAd3Ces" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_519 The Poetry Trust Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:43:19 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_519http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Wimbledon_2nd_podcast.mp3 Join Wimbledon Poet Matt Harvey on Henman Hill http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/8aQP9ZFGWv4/ <p>Is it Henman Hill or Murray Mound? As Matt Harvey, the first Wimbledon Championships Poet, says 'hills are fickle features'. Join Matt as he reads 'thowk' - fast becoming the fans favourite Wimbledon poem.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/MATT_HENMAN_HILL01.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/8aQP9ZFGWv4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_518 The Poetry Trust Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:27:56 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_518http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/MATT_HENMAN_HILL01.mp3 The inside story of Afrikaans with pioneering poet Antjie Krog http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/D7WVAgURzrk/ <p>South African poet Antjie Krog condenses 100 years of South African history and the poetic tradition of Afrikaans into an extraordinary 15-minute snapshot. An edited version of a talk given by Antjie Krog at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. For non-football fans it will offer 15 minutes (we're sorry it's not 90!) of welcome relief over the next month. And for those keenly focused on South Africa it provides the perfect historical and linguistic context and illustrates just why this World Cup is so special.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Antjie_New_craft_talk01.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/D7WVAgURzrk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_485 The Poetry Trust Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:07:06 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_485http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/Antjie_New_craft_talk01.mp3 Wimbledon Championships Poet 2010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/QUNM4ZYLKJ4/ <p>Wimbledon, in collaboration with The Poetry Trust, has for the first time appointed a ‘Championships Poet' to capture the flavour and fervour of the world's leading tennis tournament. Join <strong>Matt Harvey</strong> as he explores Wimbledon, shares his excitement and reads his ‘Grandest of Slams' poem for the first time.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/First_Wimbledon_podcast.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/QUNM4ZYLKJ4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_479 The Poetry Trust Tue, 18 May 2010 11:52:59 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_479http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/First_Wimbledon_podcast.mp3 The Poem Show 4 - American Special I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/GPr6wMPI1EQ/ <p>This episode of the Poem Show celebrates The Poetry Trust's love of American poets. The Poetry Trust has a long tradition of showcasing American poets at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. This show features live-recordings from Aldeburgh. Enjoy the droll black comedy of <strong>Mark Halliday</strong>'s ‘Soul on a Bench', the exceptional quality of stillness in <strong>Jane Hirshfield</strong>'s ‘Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight' and the moving exploration of the human condition in <strong>Thomas Lux</strong>'s ‘The People of the Other Village'.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/American_Poem_Show.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/GPr6wMPI1EQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_435 The Poetry Trust Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:00:29 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_435http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/American_Poem_Show.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Philip Levine (American National Poetry Month Series) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/t4GiXllEx_8/ <p>Born in 1928 in industrial Detroit, <strong>Philip Levine</strong>'s familial, social and economic portrait of working class America has left a monumental testimony on mid-20th century American life. His poetry of the assembly line finds a ‘voice for the voiceless'. In this reflective interview, recorded following his captivating reading at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Levine discusses finding his true subject through years of industrial labour and regrets the absence of politics in the writing of today's young poets.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/philip_levine_backchat.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/t4GiXllEx_8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_436 The Poetry Trust Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:27:42 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_436http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/philip_levine_backchat.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Albert Goldbarth (American National Poetry Month Series) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/5rjqp4P5lQo/ <p>Enjoy the phenomenal <strong>Albert Goldbarth</strong> discussing the role of the poet as a ‘conservator of ideas' against the ‘depredations of time'. In a reflective interview recorded during the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Goldbarth considers live readings versus page poems, enthuses about poets who inspire him, and explains why he's never touched a computer keyboard in his life.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/albert_goldbarth_backchat.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/5rjqp4P5lQo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_437 The Poetry Trust Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:26:47 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_437http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/albert_goldbarth_backchat.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Sharon Olds (American National Poetry Month) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/DEdodzvLMUo/ <p>Enjoy the inspirational <strong>Sharon Olds</strong> in conversation with British poet <strong>Michael Laskey</strong> - founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. In this reflective interview, Olds talks about choosing poetry over prose so as not to have to ‘make things up', how the 1960s women's movement influenced her writing and how poetry is the place where you can say the unsayable.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/sharon_olds_interview.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/DEdodzvLMUo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_438 The Poetry Trust Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:23:42 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_438http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/sharon_olds_interview.mp3 The Female Poem – does it exist? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/9vt2dGZsr1Y/ <p>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 <strong>Jo Shapcott</strong> during the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2009. Enjoy <strong>Maureen Duffy</strong>, <strong>Pascale Petit</strong> and <strong>Annie Freud</strong> 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.</p> <p>The Female Poem discussion at The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was supported by The Poetry Society</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/female_poem_discussion.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/9vt2dGZsr1Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_419 The Poetry Trust Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:24:35 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_419http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/female_poem_discussion.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Jamie McKendrick - the art of poetry translation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/uecyINryiG0/ <p><strong>Jamie McKendrick</strong> is the translator of the pre-eminent Italian poet <strong>Valerio Magrelli</strong>. In this meditative conversation with <strong>Robert Seatter</strong> he suggests that translation involves revealing the language within the language and immersing yourself in the unique and distinct tongue of the individual writer.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/jamie_mcKendrick_conversation_1.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/uecyINryiG0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_405 The Poetry Trust Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:53:34 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_405http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/jamie_mcKendrick_conversation_1.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Sasha Dugdale - the art of poetry translation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/K28ipZ5lYsM/ <p><strong>Sasha Dugdale</strong> has won huge acclaim for her translations of <strong>Elena Shvarts</strong>, one of Russia's greatest contemporary poets. With <strong>Robert Seatter</strong> she discusses how Shvarts's extraordinarily eccentric view of the world has influenced her own poetry.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/sasha_dugdale_conversation_5.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/K28ipZ5lYsM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_404 The Poetry Trust Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:19:19 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_404http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/sasha_dugdale_conversation_5.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 9: Roger Robinson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/QpVFeZnSwug/ <p>Revealing insights from Trinidadian writer Roger Robinson who reflects on his inspirational father, his outstanding teachers and the thorny issue of cultural diversity in contemporary poetry. He also talks about finding the right place to write and the importance of ‘just writing, not judging' in the first instance.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/roger_robinson_backchat_3.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/QpVFeZnSwug" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_388 The Poetry Trust Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:37:18 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_388http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/roger_robinson_backchat_3.mp3 Aldeburgh Conversation: Maureen Duffy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/aI_hkNLgizA/ <p>One of the UK's most versatile writers with over half a century of work, Maureen Duffy is a respected poet, novelist, playwright and biographer. Here she talks to Robert Seatter about the ‘constant beacon of Sappho', her ‘immense identification with Keats', and finding ‘the female muse' through love poetry.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/maureen_duffy_conversation_2.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/aI_hkNLgizA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_387 The Poetry Trust Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:35:04 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_387http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/maureen_duffy_conversation_2.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 8: Ciaran Berry http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/oJ3hjeGP3rI/ <p>Last year's winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize discusses the experience of devising a first collection and how he plans to spend his ‘protected' writing time - a unique feature of this national poetry prize. He also considers the cultural traditions and interplay of poetry between Ireland, the USA and the UK.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/ciaran_berry_backchat_4.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/oJ3hjeGP3rI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_386 The Poetry Trust Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:27:44 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_386http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/ciaran_berry_backchat_4.mp3 Interview with Sharon Olds http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/U0b1py-Gnn0/ <p>In Suffolk to read at the Poetry Prom in August 2009, <strong>Sharon Olds</strong> discussed her journey as a writer with fellow poet and founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, <strong>Michael Laskey</strong>.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/olds_laskey_20091113.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/U0b1py-Gnn0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_362 The Poetry Trust Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:29:48 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_362http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/olds_laskey_20091113.mp3 Aldeburgh Craft Talk: Mimi Khalvati http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/3XCcp4Rayrw/ <p>The Line Break<br /><strong>Mimi Khalvati</strong> takes a whistle-stop tour of the line break - its power and how to employ and enjoy this most visible distinction between poetry and prose.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/mimi_khalvati_20091028.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/3XCcp4Rayrw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_331 The Poetry Trust Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:13:53 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_331http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/mimi_khalvati_20091028.mp3 The Poetry Prom Poets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/1USo-w1l7AQ/ <p>The Poetry Trust's Naomi Jaffa and Dean Parkin discuss this year's Poetry Prom and introduce poems by the three poets taking part - <strong>Alan Brownjohn</strong>, <strong>Finuala Dowling</strong> and <strong>Sharon Olds</strong>.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poetry_prom_1.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/1USo-w1l7AQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_267 The Poetry Trust Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:58:20 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_267http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poetry_prom_1.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 6: Barbara Hamby http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/VYtVECcmKxI/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with <strong>Barbara Hamby</strong> at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/hamby_20090529.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/VYtVECcmKxI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_144 The Poetry Trust Thu, 28 May 2009 23:00:41 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_144http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/hamby_20090529.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 7: Dennis O’Driscoll http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/R2c8e8Czrjs/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with <strong>Dennis O'Driscoll</strong> at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/odriscoll_20090529.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/R2c8e8Czrjs" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_145 The Poetry Trust Thu, 28 May 2009 23:00:03 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_145http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/odriscoll_20090529.mp3 The Write Stuff - The Jerwood Aldeburgh Seminar http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/ReOYbUCxytM/ <p>In March 2009, eight poets retreat to a house in the heart of Suffolk for a week of workshops and one-to-ones, helping them to develop their next collection. Nick Patrick investigates...</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/jerwood_20090522.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/ReOYbUCxytM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_143 The Poetry Trust Thu, 21 May 2009 23:00:45 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_143http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/jerwood_20090522.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 5: Clive James http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/6cifutgKjyA/ <p><strong>Clive James</strong> on the Festival, The Poetry Channel and the importance of the poem. Interviewed by Poetry Trust director Naomi Jaffa.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/james_20090522.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/6cifutgKjyA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_78 The Poetry Trust Thu, 21 May 2009 23:00:23 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_78http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/james_20090522.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 4: Ellen Phethean http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/aIR9NSN3x4U/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with Ellen Phethean at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/phethean_20090515.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/aIR9NSN3x4U" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_142 The Poetry Trust Thu, 14 May 2009 23:01:40 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_142http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/phethean_20090515.mp3 The Poem Show 3: Family Inheritance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/E6yuaJH4Df8/ <p><strong>I COME FROM</strong> by Robert Seatter</p> <p><strong>GENETICS</strong> by Sinéad Morrissey</p> <p><strong>SOME NIGHT BY CHANCE</strong> by Peter Sansom</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_3_20090515.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/E6yuaJH4Df8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_132 The Poetry Trust Thu, 14 May 2009 23:00:40 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_132http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_3_20090515.mp3 The Poem Show 2: Our Dangerous Age http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/5umvtbahR_g/ <p><strong>IT'S ALSO FINE</strong> by Mourid Barghouti</p> <p><strong>FLINN ON THE BUS</strong> by Naomi Shihab Nye</p> <p><strong>REVENGE </strong>by Taha Muhammad Ali with Peter Cole</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_2_20090508.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/5umvtbahR_g" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_131 The Poetry Trust Fri, 8 May 2009 16:10:27 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_131http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_2_20090508.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 3: George Szirtes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/vU1nMIpJh9U/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with George Szirtes at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/szirtes_20090508.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/vU1nMIpJh9U" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_140 The Poetry Trust Fri, 8 May 2009 14:23:35 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_140http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/szirtes_20090508.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 2: Mimi Khalvati http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/jKIGepugLTI/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with <strong>Mimi Khalvati</strong> at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/mimi_khalvati_20090501.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/jKIGepugLTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_141 The Poetry Trust Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:15:58 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_141http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/mimi_khalvati_20090501.mp3 Aldeburgh Backchat 1: Tiffany Atkinson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/MzVGJyG8Re0/ <p>Behind the scenes interview with <strong>Tiffany Atkinson</strong> at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/tiffany_atkinson_20090501.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/MzVGJyG8Re0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_139 The Poetry Trust Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:15:16 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_139http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/tiffany_atkinson_20090501.mp3 The Poem Show 1: Aldeburgh Highlights 2008 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~3/v7RaS8_VN8c/ <p><strong>BAD KARAOKE</strong> by Tiffany Atkinson</p> <p><strong>LUDBROOKE HIS CHIVALRY</strong> by Alan Brownjohn</p> <p><strong>GHAZAL: IT'S HEARTACHE</strong> by Mimi Khalvati</p> <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_1_20090501.mp3">Download podcast</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThePoetryChannel/~4/v7RaS8_VN8c" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_126 The Poetry Trust Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:15:00 GMT Clean info@thepoetrytrust.org (The Poetry Trust)http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/poetry-channel/archive/#podcast_126http://media.libsyn.com/media/thepoetrytrust/poem_show_1_20090501.mp3 The Poetry TrustnonadultThe Poetry Channel