Am I alone in listening to and downloading poems from the internet?
I've found quite a few good sites besides the BBC. If you are interested just say and I'll post the URL's.
There is also software around that will allow you to listen to them off line.
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Audio Poetry On The Net
Here you are friends:
From the Edinburgh Book Festival. Includes very long readings by Heaney, McGough and Muldoon. Scroll down the page.
http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/readings/index.html#8
Murray Lachlan Young. Once popular, then vanished and is now on the way back up. Make sure you mouse carefully as some of the writing is a bit jumbled and has hidden links.
http://www.murraylachlanyoung.com/Stuff.html
Academy Of American Poets. Brilliant site with lots of readings including non American poetry
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/361
University Of California Berkeley. Robert Frost, Gary Snyder and others. Scroll right down to the bottom.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#snyder
The British Council - Poetry Quartets. Videos, Animation and Audio files. There are lots and lots. Click on the links and ignore the Bloodaxe ads. Includes Benjamin Zephaniah, Tony Harrison, Selma Hill and George Szirtes etc.
A good site.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-lite ... tshome.htm
Four poems by Hugo Williams
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarch ... poetId=230
More to follow
Robert
From the Edinburgh Book Festival. Includes very long readings by Heaney, McGough and Muldoon. Scroll down the page.
http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/readings/index.html#8
Murray Lachlan Young. Once popular, then vanished and is now on the way back up. Make sure you mouse carefully as some of the writing is a bit jumbled and has hidden links.
http://www.murraylachlanyoung.com/Stuff.html
Academy Of American Poets. Brilliant site with lots of readings including non American poetry
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/361
University Of California Berkeley. Robert Frost, Gary Snyder and others. Scroll right down to the bottom.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#snyder
The British Council - Poetry Quartets. Videos, Animation and Audio files. There are lots and lots. Click on the links and ignore the Bloodaxe ads. Includes Benjamin Zephaniah, Tony Harrison, Selma Hill and George Szirtes etc.
A good site.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-lite ... tshome.htm
Four poems by Hugo Williams
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarch ... poetId=230
More to follow
Robert
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This has been posted before too - but I still think it's amazing that you can actually listen to Alf Tennyson in action:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarch ... oetId=1569
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http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarch ... oetId=1569
C
You may like this link for the long winter nights. It is from Irish Radio RTE One It is a series of poetry/arts programmes. You will need Real Player to listen or if you have the appropriate software you can download them to listen later.
Includes poems and analysis on Coleridge, Yeats, Plath, Eliot et al.
The Programme: The Enchanted Way
Link: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theenchantedway/index.html
and here
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theenchantedway/1034170.html
Enjoy
Robert
Includes poems and analysis on Coleridge, Yeats, Plath, Eliot et al.
The Programme: The Enchanted Way
Link: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theenchantedway/index.html
and here
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theenchantedway/1034170.html
Enjoy
Robert