The first half of an interview with the four members of Vintage Poison, who are Lucy Leagrave, Kevin Reinhardt, Gareth Lewis and Robert Yates.
I'd met Robert at a Wolf Magazine launch gig, and got off to a great start with him, sharing many interests, lest of all Role Playing Games (I mean the Orcs and Wizards kind of course) but what got me interested was his translations of French poets, many of which had already been translated to English, but Robert was keen to point out to me the vagaries of language and how the translator comes across in the artists work.
This point I explore a bit further in a future episode when I interview James Bryne of The Wolf magazine, who also works as a translator, among other things.
Vintage Posion then, Robert invited me along to the launch of their book, a collection of the four artists works, at Borders on Oxford street, at which point I started to pester them for an interview. It took me trailing along to a number of the crews live nights, and the consumption of much beer, to finally get them to sit down together in a church in Covent garden, last January. Other than a few out-takes, this recording is pretty much as it went.In the first half of the interview I leave in a fart from Robert Yates prior to his performance - if I wasn't so kind I'd make some sort of derogatory remark about it being the best part of his performance (Sorry Robert, you know I don't mean it and couldn't avoid the pun!). In the second half of the interview I had to leave the room, and left the recorder on and picked up some choice remarks when the poets guard was down!
This was of course with the groups permission - my first reaction was to edit it all out and make them appear angelic, but you know, they insisted on me showing their true colours!
Monday 21 April 2008
Wednesday 16 April 2008
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I've been working on a new logo for flyers and promotions and have come up with this. If you have any thoughts please let me know.
Episode 26 now available to download
This weekly format is working me hard! This weeks show has a performance and interview with a new and rising talent on the performance poetry scene, Anneliese Kellner-Joyce. Anneliese is a young talent, schooled in drama and performance, and brings this to bear in her poetry performances, she's striking in her honesty on stage and can only be applauded. I really enjoyed interviewing and recording this show, as a performer Anneliese was insistent on take after take after take, to get the poem just right, something I've only encountered seldomly before, but by the last take, her voice had warmed up fantastically, and was just right.
This interview and the next two weeks worth of material is the end of my recordings using my iPod and the Micromemo attachment - as good as this was, the pod needed a reboot every time you began a new recording, else it would start to skip in the middle of recording, and I've lost a lot of recordings because of this. I have since been out and bought a new digital recorder, nothing fancy, a Cannon dictaphone, which records in a .WAV format, and plugs in as a USB disc into my mac, and I can drag and drop the file directly into Garageband and away I go.
The first of my interviews with the new recorder will be going out in the next few weeks, out and about on the streets around Brick Lane with Tim Wells, in the Royal Festival Hall with Rhian Edwardes, which also marks a big leap forward for the podcast.
The poetry library have very kindly offered support to the podcast, in allowing me access to the library on days it's closed to the public to record interviews with poets. My first interview there is later this month, with Roddy Lumsden. In exchange for this (and I must say I'm winning out in this exchange) the Poetry Library is going to take copies of the podcast, on disc, for submission to their permanent collection.
So, if you've ever fancied having your poetry immortalised for generations to come, submit to the podcast at ukpoetrypodcast@mac.com and be preserved for all eternity!
Dom
This interview and the next two weeks worth of material is the end of my recordings using my iPod and the Micromemo attachment - as good as this was, the pod needed a reboot every time you began a new recording, else it would start to skip in the middle of recording, and I've lost a lot of recordings because of this. I have since been out and bought a new digital recorder, nothing fancy, a Cannon dictaphone, which records in a .WAV format, and plugs in as a USB disc into my mac, and I can drag and drop the file directly into Garageband and away I go.
The first of my interviews with the new recorder will be going out in the next few weeks, out and about on the streets around Brick Lane with Tim Wells, in the Royal Festival Hall with Rhian Edwardes, which also marks a big leap forward for the podcast.
The poetry library have very kindly offered support to the podcast, in allowing me access to the library on days it's closed to the public to record interviews with poets. My first interview there is later this month, with Roddy Lumsden. In exchange for this (and I must say I'm winning out in this exchange) the Poetry Library is going to take copies of the podcast, on disc, for submission to their permanent collection.
So, if you've ever fancied having your poetry immortalised for generations to come, submit to the podcast at ukpoetrypodcast@mac.com and be preserved for all eternity!
Dom
Sunday 6 April 2008
Episode 25 now available to downlaod
Dear Friends,
This weeks episode of the podcast is a recording made at a Word for Word poetry workshop in Woodgreen, north London. Hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones, it is a weekly workshop which meets in the Woodgreen Library. For anyone who hasn't attended a workshop, as with most, it starts with some writing exercises, then discussion of the work, and rinse and repeat for two hours!
I've had to cut out a lot of stuff to get it down to an acceptable length, but needless to say I've left in a lot of poetry.
The show finishes with some of the writers reading their works from a recent publication of the workshops poetry, Stop Me and Buy One.
For copies of the book contact Word for Word at
word4wordwoodgreen@hotmail.co.uk
If this has piqued our interest in writers workshops, please visit the Poetry Library website, or the Poetry Society website where you can find links to many other workshops that may suit your style.
This weeks episode of the podcast is a recording made at a Word for Word poetry workshop in Woodgreen, north London. Hosted by Richard Tyrone Jones, it is a weekly workshop which meets in the Woodgreen Library. For anyone who hasn't attended a workshop, as with most, it starts with some writing exercises, then discussion of the work, and rinse and repeat for two hours!
I've had to cut out a lot of stuff to get it down to an acceptable length, but needless to say I've left in a lot of poetry.
The show finishes with some of the writers reading their works from a recent publication of the workshops poetry, Stop Me and Buy One.
For copies of the book contact Word for Word at
word4wordwoodgreen@hotmail.co.uk
If this has piqued our interest in writers workshops, please visit the Poetry Library website, or the Poetry Society website where you can find links to many other workshops that may suit your style.
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