... them to find beauty in it is an admirable one, but he has approached it in the usual elitist manner: he sets up the poetryarchive and claims that each poetry recording costs £4500. £4500! FOUR AND A HALF GRAND!?! Go to the site, check out the contributions section and then listen to some of the poems ...
... American commentator, are Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. Despite the mixed reactions to Motion’s poetry, his work on the online PoetryArchive is an admirable legacy to leave behind. ...Link!
Here’s a link to the Children’s PoetryArchive You can find out about poets who are famous for writing for children and listen to their poems being read.
... pressures, exposures, demands and wearinesses. But it is also a post full of opportunities to do good things for poetry. What I am proudest of is the establishment of the online PoetryArchive, where a million pages of poetry are read each month. I couldn't have done it without being poet laureate; I ...
... to Charlotte Higgins here. Read The Guardian article, ‘Poet sought for job quite fraught. Critics may make merry; at least the pay is sherry’, by Mark Brown here. Browse through The PoetryArchive. Posted in news Tagged: Andrew Motion, Charlotte Higgins, guardian poetry, poet laureate, poet ...
... to do things that will undoubtedly come to this person and risk overwhelming them”, he added. Motion’s achievements as poet laureate, an honorary position, have included writing poems for royal occasions as well as founding the PoetryArchive - a collection of recordings of poets reading their own works ...
... as well as founding the PoetryArchive - a collection of recordings of poets reading their own works.The selection process to find his successor will begin with a consultation process.After that, recommendations will be put to the prime minister who will put names forward for approval ...
Helen Ivory won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. Her second Bloodaxe collection, The Dog in the Sky, was published in 2006. She is an editor for the PoetryArchive, a judge for the PBS Pamphlet choice and teaches creative writing at UEA, at Norwich University College of the Arts and for the Arvon ...
