Neil Astley’s Videos
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Arundhathi Subramaniam’s poems explore various ambivalences – around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender,…
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Esther Morgan's third collection GRACE is shortlisted for the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize. The main themes of her poetry are loss, loneliness and what remains unspoken. She describes her subject-matter…
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The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. His books sell thousands of copies in Sweden, and his poetry has been translated into 60 languages. Born in 1931, grew…
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Driving to work with Brendan Kennelly
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In "Driving to work with Brendan Kennelly", the poet's editor Neil Astley takes you on his daily commute through the Tarset Valley of Northumberland to the Bloodaxe office behind Highgreen Manor -…
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John Agard: Listen Mr Oxford don
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John Agard reads his poem 'Listen Mr Oxford don' from Pamela Robertson-Pearce's film JOHN AGARD LIVE! which comes on a free DVD with his book ALTERNATIVE ANTHEM: SELECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 2009)…
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Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first “post-totalitarian” generation of Albanian poets. Born in 1968, she grew up under house arrest because of her family's opposition to Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist…
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Basil Bunting reads from Briggflatts
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This video features four short extracts of Basil Bunting reading from his long poem BRIGGFLATTS, from Peter Bell's film portrait, 'Basil Bunting: An introduction to the work of a poet', made by Northeast…
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Clare Pollard reads from Changeling
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Clare Pollard reads four poems from her latest collection CHANGELING (2011) and talks about the book's themes. Steeped in folktale and ballads, CHANGELING takes on our myths and monsters, from the…
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Brian Turner reads his poems from the Iraq War
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Brian Turner served for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq from 2003. Turner's is a powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill,…
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Ruth Bidgood at Ledbury Poetry Festival
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Ruth Bidgood gave a rare reading at Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2010. This year – at the age of 88 – she won the Roland Mathias Prize for her most recent collection "Time Being". Ruth Bidgood's…
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Susan Wicks's poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. Kathleen Jamie described her as 'a poet of deceptive power, who can transmute everyday objects…
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Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on complex…
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