The Poetry Channel
The Podcasts
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.
All podcasts produced by Apercu Media
Aldeburgh Conversation: Jane Draycott
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.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Maurice Riordan
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’.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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’.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAldeburgh Conversation: Fleur Adcock
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.
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