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Posted by vgom on 21 January 2009 - 8:05pm.
Members of the massive with an interest in poetry may like to know that Philip Larkin's - The Sunday sessions has been released on Audio Cd ( available for £6.74 through waterstones website).
As an aside , i think it would be of interest to have some Poets interviewed for ' The Word '. Anybody else keen on the idea? we could start with Roger McGough , a man with a Rock and Roll background.
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“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.”
Simon Armitage would be an obvious choice. He's fairly close to the world of rock. I quite like him as a poet, but not as a reader.
Mr Armitage
He's also in a band called the Scaremongers..His last non poetry book called Gig was an ace look at how music has been a background influence in his life
(The worst summary ever, sorry)
There's also lavinia Greenlaw, another fine poet. She wrote What Music Is Like For Girls. A lazy comparison is to say that it's the ladies equivalent of Gig... Apologies for being lazy, but theya re both fine books...
You've got me thinking about Larkin...
and I'd like to mention his poem 'Wires' which is fantastic...
Wires by Philip Larkin
The widest prairies have electric fences,
For though old cattle know they must not stray
Young steers are always scenting purer water
Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires
Leads them to blunder up against the wires
Whose muscle-shredding violence gives no quarter.
Young steers become old cattle from that day,
Electric limits to their widest senses.
I'd like that, too.
I recall that a while back the mag ran a 'Heroes' piece, and Mark Ellen gave Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his.
Not that I'm suggesting they raid the petty cash and buy that time machine on eBay.
I feel as though they have interviewed Zephaniah, Armitage and a few of the others though... *haven't they*?
Pete Doherty?
*ducks*
To be fair...
his poetry is much better than his music.
Sod it
Poetry is good.I love it. And the poetry of a friend is so good I will shamelessly plug it, FAQs or not.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=161
yey to poetry
Not sure who to have mix of old new, texts people have nicked for songs, topical ones or just the best one to woo people with.
Andrew Marvell, Blake, Auden, Cope, Cutler, I won't type out the oxford book of verse.
Have to disagree about Simon Armitage reading his own work I think like a lot of poets he's better than anyone else seeing as his work is very much based in the way he speaks. I think sometime thesps over do it trying to give each word too much meaning good example of this was Charlie Windsor reading some burns this morning on the Today programme instead of letting the words speak for themselves he had to emote.
John Hegley
I may be wrong but hasn't he been featured in the mag before?
Once attended a poetry evening at the 100 Club about 12 years ago. He was the big name and was last on. I remember the other 2 remarkable names on the bill were John Cooper Clarke and Jah Wobble. Wobble read some William Blake.
Quite the most astonishing evening.