A great interview today with Heather. A Canadian poet, or rather a canadian, who has discovered her poetry vibe on arrival in London.
Following on from the interview with Sid Bose last week Hearher also brings elements of her stage training to her poetry. Character is important to her and it comes across in her poems, filled with people who just climb out of the page and sit with you while you read. Check out Red in her Tall Lighthouse collection "Horizon & Back"
Heathers interview won't air until December which I promise you will bring a little bit of a Canadian summer to the dreariest of months!
Saturday 23 August 2008
Saturday 16 August 2008
Episode 43 - Roddy Lumsden and Annie Freud
I kind of feel that I'm hitting some pinacle of poetry here with this weeks podcast - two of the most respected poets on the London scene on the same show - if you were going to see these two live, tickets would have sold out long ago!
From last weeks interview with Roddy, we have two poems of his from Super Try Again, his latest book from Donut Press ( buy his book here ).
Roddy's delivery is smooth, musical and like some sort of Scottish Siren, pulling you in to crash on his rocks.
Complementing Roddy's performance is Annie Freud, her first collection out last year, Annie reads mostly from The Best Man That Ever Was ( available from Picador here ) and finishes the set with the title poem from her book - what I love most about Annie's performance is the detail and preamble for each of her poems - the listener is brought right in to her life, into the titbits and ephemera of Annie's world. My favourite image is the story Annie tells of falling asleep on an atlas of the world - Annie is an Atlas of poetry, supporting the sky above us, all I can say is listen with pleasure.
From last weeks interview with Roddy, we have two poems of his from Super Try Again, his latest book from Donut Press ( buy his book here ).
Roddy's delivery is smooth, musical and like some sort of Scottish Siren, pulling you in to crash on his rocks.
Complementing Roddy's performance is Annie Freud, her first collection out last year, Annie reads mostly from The Best Man That Ever Was ( available from Picador here ) and finishes the set with the title poem from her book - what I love most about Annie's performance is the detail and preamble for each of her poems - the listener is brought right in to her life, into the titbits and ephemera of Annie's world. My favourite image is the story Annie tells of falling asleep on an atlas of the world - Annie is an Atlas of poetry, supporting the sky above us, all I can say is listen with pleasure.
can actors recite poetry?
Well, I suppose i'm about to find out. I'm just about to sit down with Sid Bose, a poet I met a few months ago doing a Reading for The Wolf magazine. Sid is trained as an actor and brings a lot of his talents to the performance of his own poetry. I think I'll ask him how he interprets others poetry and what lessons a non acting poet can bring to their text that an actor will gain insight from.
There's a big argument in the poets on fire forum along these lines and the conclusion there is that actors can't read poetry as the poet is unable to notate their poem to include accent and rythmn.
I wonder if there us anything poetry can learn from musical notation?
There's a big argument in the poets on fire forum along these lines and the conclusion there is that actors can't read poetry as the poet is unable to notate their poem to include accent and rythmn.
I wonder if there us anything poetry can learn from musical notation?
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