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Resources - Site review - Hear, hear: poetry in Motion. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is the driving force behind an online archive of modern poets reading their work. Mark Chillingworth samples the stanzas.
Listening to a poet read their own work helps to understand the motivations behind their art. The Poetry Archive is an online resource that provides access to digitised recordings of poets reading their work.
Despite being aimed at a general audience, the Poetry Archive is also a powerful resource for students and academics of literature.
The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to make poetry more accessible, relevant and enjoyable - and to create an archive for posterity. There are no known recordings of some great poets, such as Thomas Hardy, and this archive aims to ensure that such a fate will never befall any modern poet.
Here you'll find a wide range of 20th century poets - Adcock, Ginsberg, McGough, MacNeice and Pinter, to name a few. Some might be amused to find publishing whizzkid Felix Dennis here among such greats as Yeats and Tennyson.
A basic RealPlayer audio application is available as a free download from the site. By making the application free, the Poetry Archive has ensured that users and libraries are not hampered by cost or ...
- Poetry Archive unveils lost voices.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 30, 2006 700+ words
...Guardian Unlimited) The Poetry Archive celebrated its first...organisations like the Poetry Archive." Founded last November...Richard Carrington, the Poetry Archive is the world's foremost...collection of recordings of poets reading their work. It was...
- Causley joins poets reading work on the internet.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire December 1, 2005 700+ words
...Causley, reading his own poems, join those of Sir John Betjeman and other famous literary names as part of the online Poetry Archive, an ambitious new project run by Andrew Motion. The project has been welcomed by the Charles Causley Society as a way...
- The Spoken Arts treasury; 100 modern American poets reading their...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Levitov, Francine September 1, 2007 700+ words
The Spoken Arts treasury; 100 modern American poets reading their poems. Vol. I. 6 cds. 6.25 hrs. Recorded...A * The Spoken Arts treasury; 100 modern American poets reading their poems. Vol. II. 6 cds. 6.25 hrs. Recorded...
- The Spoken Arts Treasury: 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Ratner, Rochelle September 1, 2007 700+ words
The Spoken Arts Treasury: 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems. Vol. 2.6 CDs. unabridged. 6 hrs...Books continues its remastered reissue of 100 American poets reading 464 poems, complete with short (and extremely useful...
- The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Ratner, Rochelle June 1, 2001 700+ words
The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work 3 CDs. unabridged. 3 1/2 hrs. Harper-Audio. 2000. ISBN 0-694-52278-3. $29.95. POETRY No matter how...
- Radio 3 celebrates poetry old and new; with contemporary poets reading their...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire May 11, 2009 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 May 2009-BBC: Radio 3 celebrates poetry old and new; with contemporary poets reading their own work, writing tips for budding Poet Laureates and anniversaries of Shakespeare and Tennyson(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...
- Poetry Archive puts recordings online.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire November 30, 2005 700+ words
...TELECOMWORLDWIRE-30 November 2005-Poetry Archive puts recordings online(C)1994...www.m2.com A charity called The Poetry Archive is to make recordings of classic poets...speaking poets are recorded. The Poetry Archive's development resulted from funding...
- Poetry Archive puts recordings online.(development of online sound...
- Magazine article from: Internet Business News November 30, 2005 700+ words
...1995-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A charity called The Poetry Archive is to make recordings of classic poets such as Betjeman...from current English-speaking poets are recorded. The Poetry Archive's development resulted from funding from the National...
- Turning to the Net to publish and share poems ..PX: Peerless poets: The work of...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 27, 2003 700+ words
...Alternatively, you can find a few of the works at the Poetry Archive (www.emule.com/poetry). It contains more than 3...144 authors worldwide and is considered to be the largest poetry archive in the world. There are sites such as E-poets.Net...
- Andy Burnham announces that search is underway for first Poet Laureate of the...
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 25, 2008 700+ words
...and colleges, and also co-founding the Poetry Archive, an online collection of poets reading their work. Andrew Motion said: "My time...glad to have had the chance to found the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. I warmly welcome...
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