Poetry Quartets online
Over two hours of audio extracts from the British Council/Bloodaxe poetry recordings. You can also view flash movies to accompany some of the poems:
New animated poems:
Don Patterson's The Eyes; animation by Ian Kirk.
Benjamin Zephaniah's London Breed; animation by Kristina Hedderly
Jo Shapcott's Mrs Noah: taken at the flood; animation by Kristina Hedderly.
Selma Hill's arts-literature-poodle-flash-pop-up.htm George Szirtes' arts-literature-button-maker-flash-pop-up.htm
W. N. Herbert's arts-literature-horse-flash-pop-up.htm
Moniza Alvi's arts-literature-dot-flash-pop-up.htm
Helen Dunmore's arts-literature-shady-girls-flash-pop-up.htm .
Produced in partnership with Bloodaxe Books, this is a new series of recordings of contemporary poetry. Each two-hour double cassette is a of four poets reading and talking about their work, each with a half-hour selection. This project revives the classic recording archive (now housed in the National Sound Archive) set up by the British Council in the 1960s under Peter Orr in which many leading poets of that time were recorded and released on a series of LPs called .
We have selected a number of poems from a range of poets in the series (around 6 or 7 minutes of audio for each). The audio is available in Real Audio and Windows Media Player formats; you can download the players here or on any of the pages. Each poem is split into a number of parts. Playlist files link together the Introduction and Poem parts.
Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, Glyn Maxwell
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 468 2 £11.75 ]
Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Selima Hill, Carol Rumens
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 468 2 £11.75 ]
James Fenton, Tony Harrison, Peter Reading, Ken Smith
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 470 4 £11.75 ]
Paul Durcan, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 498 4 £11.75 ]
Helen Dunmore, U A Fanthorpe, Elizabeth Jennings, Jo Shapcott
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 499 2 £11.75 ]
Moniza Alvi, Michael Donaghy, Anne Stevenson, George Szirtes
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 519 0 £11.75 ]
John Burnside, W N Herbert, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 520 4 £11.75 ]
Andrew Motion, Charles Causley, David Constantine, Lavinia Greenlaw
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 550 6 £11.75 ]
Benjamin Zephaniah, Anne Rouse, Ian Duhig, Matthew Sweeney
[ Audio Cassette Bloodaxe ISBN 1 85224 551 4 £11.75 ]
For , the British Council is recording today's leading poets, drawing on a wide range of writers to establish an authoritative series which reflects the diversity and excitement of contemporary poetry thirty years on.
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