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3 days ago
Philip Levine on Lowell and Berryman
Philip Levine in conversation with Naomi Jaffa at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2009. In this excerpt from their discussion, Levine talks about being taught first by Robert Lowell and then by John […]
Neil Astley
4 months ago
B. Catling: Near Vorpal
NEAR VORPAL is a spin-off from Neil Astley's film JABBERLEDBURY (www.vimeo.com/5909374), and presents a reading at 2009 Ledbury Poetry Festival by B. Catling of his poem 'Near Vorpal' which uses the invented […]
Neil Astley
4 months ago
Jabberledbury
JABBERLEDBURY presents Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky' read by 28 poets taking part in the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2009. Filmed at numerous sound checks by publisher-in-residence Neil Astley of Bloodaxe […]
Neil Astley
4 months ago
Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection, NIGH-NO-PLACE. In this short video she reads four poems from the book, beginning with the title-poem 'Nigh-No-Place', followed by […]
Neil Astley
5 months ago
Pamela Robertson-Pearce: BORDERLINE
BORDERLINE is a new film, first shown at Northumbria University's conference "Northernness: Ideas and Images of North in Visual Culture" on 26 June 2009. Pamela Robertson-Pearce writes: "BORDERLINE is […]
Neil Astley
5 months ago
Ellen Hinsey
ELLEN HINSEY reads four poems from UPDATE ON THE DESCENT, a powerful meditation on violence, war and human division. Drawing on personal and family experiences as well as research at the International […]
Neil Astley
5 months ago
Leanne O'Sulllivan
Leanne O'Sullivan is a young Irish poet from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. In this short film she reads one poem from her debut collection, 'The Cord' from WAITING FOR MY CLOTHES, followed by five […]
Neil Astley
6 months ago
Brendan Kennelly: Reservoir Voices
Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland’s most distinguished and best loved poets. In this short video he talks about his new collection RESERVOIR VOICES and reads four poems from it, 'Hope', 'Lie', 'Proposal' […]
Neil Astley
6 months ago
Fred Voss
Fred Voss doesn’t just write about factory life, he lives it. For the past 30 years he has worked as a machinist in various factories in California, transmuting his experiences into poetry. The backdrop […]
Neil Astley
6 months ago
Samuel Menashe (from Life is IMMENSE)
Samuel Menashe’s poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual intensity and a lingering emotional force. For the past 50 years he has practised his art of ‘compression and crystallisation’ (in Derek […]
Neil Astley
6 months ago
Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio is a highly original American poet. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading her poems at a friend's apartment in New York City in September 2008. Composed during a long stay in Rome, the […]
Neil Astley
7 months ago
Voice Recognition: Jay Bernard
Jay Bernard is one of 21 poets included in the new Bloodaxe anthology of young poets, VOICE RECOGNITION (ed. James Byrne & Clare Pollard, published in September 2009). Here she reads in the 'Roddy and […]
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