I love browsing Poetry Archive - an archive of recordings of major poets reading their own work.
It's fascinating listening and I really like listening to Kathleen Jamie read - she's got a lovely voice and it's nice to have the affirmation of hearing a Scottish voice. Here she reads a beautiful poem called 'The Wishing Tree', it's really worth listening to.
I also love hearing Edwin Morgan read, his voice is very distinctive and once I've heard him read a poem I hear his voice in my head everytime I read that poem.
Unfortunately they don't have Kenneth White whom I heard at StAnza and whose voice sometimes pops into my head at any random point during the day!
2 comments:
I absolutely agree: Poetry Archive is a favourite stopping-off place of mine, too. What I really love is to have the script of the poem in front of me as I listen to it being read. Wonderful!
It's a shame they don't have video recordings of them reading. On youtube there's a video of Sexton reading the first stanza of 'Her Kind' and her reading of it is quite differently paced from the audio version on Poetry Archive.
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