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Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved to Oxford at the age of six where she lived for the rest of her life. She studied at St. Anne's College, Oxford and worked in advertising, at the City Library and briefly in publishing before becoming a full-time writer. Her consistent devotion to poetry yielded over twenty books during her life, a New Collected Poems appearing in 2002. Although initially linked to the group of poets including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn known as ‘The Movement', Jennings' work doesn't share their irony or academic wit. However, the unassuming technical craft of her poetry and its emotional restraint are qualities that were praised by the poets and critics of the period and continued to be abiding characteristics of her work. An important theme is her Catholicism and many of her poems have a devotional aspect. Her intense musing on spirituality encouraged a sensitivity towards others, evident in the pained tenderness of some of her poems. Jennings' sincere and scrupulous work gradually built both critical acclaim that weathered changes in poetic fashion, and a genuine popularity. Amongst the many honours awarded her work are the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and a CBE. Although consistent in its tone and concerns, her poetry continued to develop and mature – later work demonstrating a more flexible approach to form whilst retaining her clarity.-bio via Poetry Archive (where you can also hear Jennings reading her own poem) Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

LA PETITE MORT: PETER GOLDSWORTHY IS GOING TO DIEEvery second week on MHIGTD we explore a conversation about mortality and survival with human beings who have skin in the game. And today we're asking the question: What happens when you're a doctor who is diagnosed with a terminal illness?Novelist and GP Peter Goldsworthy was faced with this specifically life-changing predicament in 2018 when a chance medical check-up revealed a blood cancer diagnosis. ‘My first stray thought: cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' Peter has won literary awards across a range of genres, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, and, together with composer Richard Mills,  the inaugural Helpmann Award for Best New Work for the opera Batavia. His most recent novel is Minotaur, published by Penguin Viking in 2019; his 1995 novel Wish has been reissued in the Text Classics series, his 1988 novel Maestro as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic, and Honk If you Are Jesus (1992) last year in the Untapped heritage series.  His novels have been widely translated, and adapted for the stage.   He has also written opera libretti for the composers Luke Styles and Graeme Koehne.  Online, his poetry can be read and heard at The Poetry Archive, and read at The Australian Poetry Library and at The Poetry Foundation.Peter Goldsworthy (author page)The Cancer Finishing School (available here)Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die is a podcast made by Marieke Hardy (IG @marieke_hardy).You can follow at IG @GoingToDiePodMusic by Lord Fascinator (IG @lordfascinator)Produced by Darren Scarce (IG @Dazz26)Video edits by Andy Nedelkovski (IG @AndyNeds)Artwork by Lauren Egan (IG @heylaurenegan)Photography by Eamon Leggett (IG @anxietyoptions)With thanks to Amelia Chappelow (IG @ameliachappelow)Camilla McKewen (IG @CamillaLucyLucy)and Rhys Graham (IG @RhysJGraham)Support the show via www.patreon.com/mariekehardy and drop an email to mariekehardyisgoingtodie@gmail.comWhilst acknowledging the privilege that comes with having the space to discuss death and mortality, we want to also recognise that discussing these topics can raise some  wounds. Should you wish to seek extra support, please consider the following resources:https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/online-grief-support-groupshttps://www.grief.org.au/ga/ga/Support/Support_Groups.aspxhttps://www.headspace.com/meditation/griefhttps://www.mindful.org/a-10-minute-guided-meditation-for-working-with-grief/https://griefline.org.au/get-help/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this episode of The Writing Life, NCW CEO Peggy Hughes speaks to four dazzling voices in contemporary poetry. On Wednesday 22 November, Jay Bernard, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Gail McConnell and Joelle Taylor gathered to celebrate the launch of exciting new poetry archive collection, ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive'. This project, delivered by the British Archive for Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, is supported by the Mellon Foundation with partners the National Centre for Writing and Norfolk County Council Library and Information Service. The project aims to promote and preserve the archives of contemporary poets of colour, LGBTQ+ poets and writers from other historically underrepresented backgrounds and practises in the UK and Ireland. Together, they talk about the archival project, their individual contributions and creative processes. They discuss their understanding of their own work, and how poetry and spoken word can be archived. Visiting Poetry Fellow, Will Harris, joins them to explore the project.

Kei Miller is the latest subject of the Nothing But The Poem podcast. Kei Miller is a Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet; a prolific author who has published 5 collections of poetry as well as many books of fiction and essays. Our regular podcast host Sam Tongue takes a deep dive into two of his poems, which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group. Jamaica Gleaner wrote: "Kei Miller is a poet who tells his stories in the haunting voices of Jamaica's underprivileged. His tales are stories that haven't been told; they call out from the pages to be heard by Caribbean readers and by the wider world." In the PN Review, John Robert Lee wrote: "His prose – fiction and non-fiction – and his poetry... do not avoid the murky ‘corners' of life in Jamaica, racism in the UK and wider world, personal encounters with religion and gender issues. In navigating ‘away from' and through our contemporary world, he is redrawing our literary maps." The two poems discussed in this podcast are Book of Genesis and Speaking in tongues. Both poems are from the 2007 collection, There Is an Anger that Moves, and both poems can also be found on the Poetry Archive website read by Kei Miller himself.

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977 – 2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online! Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Episode 107. Merrie Joy Williams uncovers the beauty of her writing process and the importance of embracing multiple experiences that influence storytelling. Merrie Joy Williams is a poet, novelist, editor, and writing tutor, with an MA in Creative Writing from the Manchester Writing School. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Poetry Prize, and is a winner of The Poetry Archive's ‘Wordview 2020', featured permanently on their website. She is also the recipient of a London Writers Award, and Arts Council England awards for both poetry and fiction.    She is an Obsidian Fellow, a Hawthornden Fellow and was a poet-in-residence with Manchester Poetry Library, where she first explored being fostered as a baby. Much of her work currently explores how the places where we come from influence our lives; including Manchester, a commission by Historic England rresearching Woolwich High Street, and parental roots in Jamaica – a place she hasn't been to since a child.   Her debut collection is ‘Open Windows' (Waterloo Press, 2019). Magma has described the collection as 'assured, driven by sonorous language and a strong autobiographical narrative'. merriejoywilliams.com

Poetry For the Season - Easter - 01 Presentor, Sally Read, presents poestry for the Eastertide season. Sally Read is a poet and convert to the Catholic faith. She has published three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books, and her first as a Catholic, Dawn of this Hunger, is forthcoming from Second Spring. Her work can also be heard online and downloaded at the UK's Poetry Archive. The story of her conversion to Catholicism from atheism, Night's Bright Darkness, came out with Ignatius Press in 2016, and it was followed in 2019 by Annunciation, a Call to Faith in a Broken World. Sally lives with her family near Rome. She is poet in residence of the Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs.

If the relation between poetry and nature has always been a very intimate one from Ovid onwards, why is it then that the most urgent threat hanging over us remains a marginal theme among poets? We spoke to New Zealand's former Poet Laureate, Brian Turner, about poetry and ecology. We looked at the Greek etymology of the word economy, discussed why environmentalism is an ethical and not a moral stance, talked about the role poetry can play in changing consciousness and enumerated a brief historiography of social inclusion through capitalism. Brian also read exclusively for us four of his poems - Pessoa, Blackbird, Loughborough Road and Pig - from his recently published anthology Selected Poems. With Andre López Turner in the small town of Oturehua and Juan Toledo in London. Listen to Brian Turner reading some other of his poems on Poetry Archive and read The Mass by Peruvian word-wizzard Cesar Vallejo  

Gail, Hazel and host Philippa are transported to Orkney as they explore the life and works of the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown OBE. Together with his biographer Maggie Fergusson and Colin Waters of the Scottish Poetry Library, they bring to light a writer who was at once a solitary soul and a raconteur, a lover and a drinker, a member of the Edinburgh literati yet fame-shy. From the oft-recited ‘Hamnavoe’ to the Booker-nominated ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’ Mackay Brown’s work sings of his island roots, interweaving life and social history with myth and legend. In this month’s travels through the magazine’s archives, Christopher Robbins and Rory Murphy tackle the high falutin literary rap of ‘Finnegans Wake’, and there are the usual wide-ranging recommendations for reading off the beaten track too. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 59 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:anna@foxedquarterly.com) with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novels (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/rosemary-sutcliff-classic-childrens-books/) : The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch (1:30) Slightly Foxed Issue 63 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-63-published-1-september-2019/) (2:17) The Scots Kitchen (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/fm-mcneill-scots-kitchen/) , F. M. McNeill (2:39) The Balkan Trilogy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/olivia-manning-balkan-trilogy/) , Olivia Manning (2:56) Gaudy Night (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/gaudy-night/) , Dorothy L. Sayers (3:01) Boy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/roald-dahl-boy/) and Going Solo (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/roald-dahl-going-solo-no-49/) , Roald Dahl (3:13) Attrib (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eley-williams-attrib-and-other-stories/) , Eley Williams (5:15) Cousin Rosamund, the third title in Rebecca West’s Saga of the Century trilogy, is out of print (5:53) The Outrun (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/amy-liptrot-the-outrun-slightly-foxed/) , Amy Liptrot (6:04) George Mackay Brown: The Life, Maggie Fergusson is out of print (7:21) Greenvoe (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/george-mackey-brown-greenvoe/) , George Mackay Brown (19:20) Following a Lark: Poems, George Mackay Brown is out of print (21:05) Beside the Ocean of Time (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/geroge-mackay-brown-beside-the-ocean-of-time/) , George Mackay Brown (21:15) Finnegans Wake (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/james-joyce-finnegans-wake/) , James Joyce (24:54) Jeremy, Hugh Walpole is out of print (33:31) Slow Horses (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mick-herron-slow-horses/) and Joe Country (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/mick-herron-joe-country/) , Mick Herron (34:57) Leaving Alexandria (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/richard-holloway-leaving-alexandria/) , Richard Holloway (36:21) Noctuary (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/niall-campbell-noctuary/) , Niall Campbell (37:28) Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump (https://shopcatalog.com/nobody-hates-trump-more-than-trump/) , David Shields (37:51) Related Slightly Foxed Articles  Porridge and the Shorter Catechism (https://foxedquarterly.com/f-m-mcneill-the-scots-kitchen-literary-review/) , Morag MacInnes on F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen, Issue 63 (2:36) Hauntings (https://foxedquarterly.com/dorothy-l-sayers-gaudy-night-literary-review/) , Michèle Roberts on Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Issue 63 (3:01) Sound Nonsense (https://foxedquarterly.com/james-joyce-finnegans-wake-literary-review/) , Christopher Robbins on James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Issue 22 (25:03) Other Links The Scottish Poetry Library (https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/) , Edinburgh (7:23) ‘Hamnavoe’ by George Mackay Brown is available to read in full on The Poetry Archive (https://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/hamnavoe) (12:58) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

To mark the publication of Barefoot: The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid (Galileo), this episode is dedicated to the late poet. Alastair Reid was a poet, an essayist, translator and traveller. Born in 1926 in Galloway, he served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War before moving to the US in the early 1950s, where he was published in The New Yorker, the start of a long association with that magazine. In the decades that followed he travelled the world, establishing friendships with two South African poets he translated, Neruda and Borges. Tom Pow, Barefoot's editor, discusses Reid's life and work: what Reid thought of his homeland, his relationships with Borges and Neruda, and how Pow came to know Reid the man and Reid the poet. The SPL wishes to thank The Poetry Archive for granting us permission to feature a performance of Reid reading 'Weathering'.

Liz Berry's debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Black Country was chosen as a book of the year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Big Issue and The Morning Star. Liz’s poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio, television and recorded for the Poetry Archive. She has been a judge for major prizes including The Forward Prizes for Poetry and Foyle Young Poets. Liz works as a tutor for The Arvon Foundation, Writer’s Centre Norwich and Writing West Midlands. Mona Arshi is a poet and lawyer. Her poem 'Hummingbird' won first prize in the Magma Magazine poetry competition in 2012. She also was one of the Competition winners for the World Events Young Artists Festival in September 2012. She was also an award winner in the Troubadour International Competition for her poem ‘Bad day in the Office’. In 2014, she was joint winner of the Manchester Creative Writing Competition. A portfolio of her poems appeared in TEN-THE NEW WAVE in 2014 by Bloodaxe books. Mona’s poetry has been published widely in magazines including Poetry Review, Magma, Rialto and the Sunday Times. Her début collection of poem ‘Small Hands’ was published by Liverpool University in 2015 and won the Forward Prize for best first collection. Mona was one of ten poets selected for the ‘Complete Works’, a national development programme funded by the Arts Council.

What power do words have, and how do their meanings change across centuries—and continents? We talk to Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, about how moving from Britain to Baltimore changed his work; Jennifer Choi unearths the cruel etymology behind an innocuous blue birthmark; and Max Décharné draws a map of the vulgar tongue. • Episode page: https://theamericanscholar.org/rhapsodies-in-blue/ • Go beyond the episode:  • “My Mongolian Spot,” Jennifer Choi’s essay on having a blue behind  • Four poems by Andrew Motion, including “Surveillance,” which he read on the podcast  • Listen to more poets read their work on the Poetry Archive, founded by Andrew Motion during his time as Poet Laureate  • Max Décharné’s Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of the English Language  • Our back to school required reading list  • Don’t forget to send us an email at podcast@theamericanscholar.org if you want us to mail you swag! • Tune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. • Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • Acast • Have suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. And rate us on iTunes!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakes….u1EqEHrH.dpuf

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council supported The Poetry Archive to record and present a collection of Shakespeare sonnets and responses by modern day poets. The collection contains recordings of twenty sonnets read by ten major poets. Each poet has chosen a favourite sonnet by Shakespeare and, inspired by that sonnet, has written a new poem of their own. All these works are included in a new Bloomsbury anthology, 'On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration', published in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and Kings College London. The book contains thirty new poems, not all in sonnet form, alongside thirty of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Find out more about the anthology: literature.britishcouncil.org/project/on…es-sonnets Listen to the full collection of readings: www.poetryarchive.org/content/shakespeare-400

ANDREW MOTION poet, novelist, and biographer, was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and was knighted in 2009. He founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work, and the Poetry By Heart competition for school children. Andrew has won the Arvon Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Recordings of former poet laureate Charles Simic, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2003, Key West, FL.

Recordings of poet Richard Hugo, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1975, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Archival recordings of poet Michael Palmer, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1995 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Archival recordings of poet Jorie Graham, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1995 and 1998 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Archival recordings of poet Robinson Jeffers, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1941 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Recordings of the poet Thylias Moss, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2007, in studio, WBEZ, Chicago.

Recordings of the poet Sharon Olds, with an introduction to her life and work.

Archival recordings of the poet Carl Sandburg, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1954, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Archival recordings of the poet Josephine Miles, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1981, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Archival recordings of the poet George Oppen, with an introduction to his life and work.

Archival recordings of the poet Delmore Schwartz, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the National Poetry Festival, in 1962.

Archival recordings of poet E.E. Cummings, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the YMHA Poetry Center New York, NY in 1959.

Archival recordings of poet W. D. Snodgrass, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1963, Library of Congress, Washington DC, and 2007, Baldwinsville, NY.

Archival recordings of poet Howard Nemerov, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1962 and 1964, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Archival recordings of poet William Stafford, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1970 and 1978, Library of Congress.

Recordings of poet Charles Wright, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 2008, in studio, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recordings of Yusef Komunyakaa, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded April 5, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.

Recordings of poet Marilyn Hacker, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded February 28, 2007, in studio, Atlanta, GA.

Recordings of poet C.K. Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded May 16, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.

Recordings of poet Ted Kooser, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, Lincoln, NE.

Archival recordings of Theodore Roethke, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1950s, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, NY. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Recordings of poet Jean Valentine, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.

Archival recordings of Hayden Carruth, with an introduction to his life and work. All recordings are from Hayden Carruth: A Listener’s Guide. Copper Canyon Press, 1999.