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