I keep forgetting to come back here and update what's been going on!
Apologies then for missing out on telling you all about the last episode, 32 saw Joe Hakim perform some of his poetry, I've had one of his poems on previously and wanted to put a few together. We also had Ingrid Andrew with a long piece of poetry and music "When Woman", I've arranged to interview Ingrid soon, and have Joe's interview in the bag, so there's more from both of those poets to come.
In other news - Vocalised Ink - a spoken word web streaming radio station have begun to stream the show, so there's been a dramatic increase in listener numbers, and in submissions - I'd like to say hi to Detroit Motor City - been receiving some great poetry from there which will make it's way onto the show soon..
Epsiode 33 - if you know even a little about me, you'll know I'm a bit of a geek, I love to get as much as possible out of my tech. So this week see's me stretching my podcasting skills a little, and including some artwork with the poetry - Chris Bateson came to m attention a few months ago, and gave me a copy of a comic book he had written and drawn, and it made something click inside me, that it would be perfect for this show. Check out the website and watch along with Chris as he reads his poem about Angie San and Miko Roboto!
It's given me some ideas for future shows - I'd love to do a bit more with pictures and images, maybe some bits with video podcasting, but I'd also love to do something with skypecast, and have some sort of call in show. Oh well, all ideas for the pot.
Keep listening
Dominic
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Episode 31
Back to the poetry!
I received my first fan mail this week, I've had submissions in the past, people asking to be put on the show, but this was the first time anyone has written with nice things to say! When I say nice, I was described as 'Poetry's Smashy n' Nicey", not to bad in my book!
One of the criticisms was the amount of interviews, and a lack of poetry on the podcast, and I'm first to admit that sometimes the shows are a bit balanced in favour of the interview, and it's something I'm going to address in future interviews, and try to get as much poetry as interview.
That does mean that I have still many hours of interview to get out of the next couple of months!
So why have I gone trawling through my back catalogue for this show? Joe Hakim, originally sent me loads of material late last year and at the time I found I could only squeeze one of his poems on to a show, and rather than split up the rest of his material, I thought I'd hold on to it and save it for a show of it's own. Three short Poems from Joe, but three poems that throw up images of not just Hull, but life across middle England as we have come to know it thorough the pages of the Sun and the Star. Joe fills his poems with characters that are no further away than your garden gate, and they jump in your face forcing you to recognise, not just them, but your own reflection too.
The first poet on the show is Ingrid Andrew, who submitted this piece to me a while ago. Ingrid is a fellow south London poet, and this piece, When Woman, is epic. A long poem broken by a musical number which acts to emphasise the theme of the poem, and even though it may be seen to break the resonance of the poem, only works to hammer home the importance of the whole theme. I can't wait to sit down with Ingrid and record some more poetry.
I received my first fan mail this week, I've had submissions in the past, people asking to be put on the show, but this was the first time anyone has written with nice things to say! When I say nice, I was described as 'Poetry's Smashy n' Nicey", not to bad in my book!
One of the criticisms was the amount of interviews, and a lack of poetry on the podcast, and I'm first to admit that sometimes the shows are a bit balanced in favour of the interview, and it's something I'm going to address in future interviews, and try to get as much poetry as interview.
That does mean that I have still many hours of interview to get out of the next couple of months!
So why have I gone trawling through my back catalogue for this show? Joe Hakim, originally sent me loads of material late last year and at the time I found I could only squeeze one of his poems on to a show, and rather than split up the rest of his material, I thought I'd hold on to it and save it for a show of it's own. Three short Poems from Joe, but three poems that throw up images of not just Hull, but life across middle England as we have come to know it thorough the pages of the Sun and the Star. Joe fills his poems with characters that are no further away than your garden gate, and they jump in your face forcing you to recognise, not just them, but your own reflection too.
The first poet on the show is Ingrid Andrew, who submitted this piece to me a while ago. Ingrid is a fellow south London poet, and this piece, When Woman, is epic. A long poem broken by a musical number which acts to emphasise the theme of the poem, and even though it may be seen to break the resonance of the poem, only works to hammer home the importance of the whole theme. I can't wait to sit down with Ingrid and record some more poetry.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Episodes 29 and 30
Missed blogging about the last two episodes.
29 sees us going back to doing a bit of poetry, with poems from Graham Buchan, Naomi Woodis, Kaamil Ahmed and Maria Slovvakova. I've been doing so many interviews recently, I'd forgotten just how much poetry is needed to fill half an hour!
Someone mentioned recently when I was asked about the number of listeners I have - There are about 150 subscribers and I estimate another 100-150 people who listen on the web page only. I mentioned that I was a little disappointed with the numbers, as I'd like thousands, but they said imagine if I was running a physical weekly event and was getting 100 people turning up for it... that's like soap opera numbers!!!
Episode 30 - and back to the interviews. Firstly let me apologise for the quality of this episode - my new recorder's first use, and I've not quite got the settings right - I was using 'conference' setting and picking everything in the room up - including Niall O'Sullivan's dancing!
I have to admit I have one more interview like that - with Tim Wells, coming up in an episode shortly, but at least James Byrne is clear.
James is the editor of The Wolf Magazine, which as of issue 17 is now square bound, extra pages, and more of a quality literary magazine than before, if that's possible. James is not only editor of the mag, but runs workshops, classes, and works as a poetry translator for SOAS.
As an editor, I ask James about what it takes to get published in his magazine, and his helpful words of advice are essential listening to all poets.
29 sees us going back to doing a bit of poetry, with poems from Graham Buchan, Naomi Woodis, Kaamil Ahmed and Maria Slovvakova. I've been doing so many interviews recently, I'd forgotten just how much poetry is needed to fill half an hour!
Someone mentioned recently when I was asked about the number of listeners I have - There are about 150 subscribers and I estimate another 100-150 people who listen on the web page only. I mentioned that I was a little disappointed with the numbers, as I'd like thousands, but they said imagine if I was running a physical weekly event and was getting 100 people turning up for it... that's like soap opera numbers!!!
Episode 30 - and back to the interviews. Firstly let me apologise for the quality of this episode - my new recorder's first use, and I've not quite got the settings right - I was using 'conference' setting and picking everything in the room up - including Niall O'Sullivan's dancing!
I have to admit I have one more interview like that - with Tim Wells, coming up in an episode shortly, but at least James Byrne is clear.
James is the editor of The Wolf Magazine, which as of issue 17 is now square bound, extra pages, and more of a quality literary magazine than before, if that's possible. James is not only editor of the mag, but runs workshops, classes, and works as a poetry translator for SOAS.
As an editor, I ask James about what it takes to get published in his magazine, and his helpful words of advice are essential listening to all poets.
Monday, 21 April 2008
Episode 27 - Vintage Poison
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!
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!
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
New Logo
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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