Monday 30 January 2012

Burns Night Scottish Poetry

I'm reading on this Scottish Crowdsourced Poetry Audio Book:http://bit.ly/yA0DgQ

as part of Glasgow Social Media Week for Burns Night (a few nights ago i know!)

It's created by SpokenHerd http://www.spokenherd.co.uk/

Here's how it was made too: http://bit.ly/x7S4XO

Enjoy!

Friday 20 January 2012

T.S. Eliot Prize Links

Links I found on the Internet about the T.S. Eliot Prize:

Preview

Audio Recordings

The Winner
  • John Burnside wins most controversial TS Eliot prize in decades - Guardian

Controversy

January 2012

1. John Burnside on T.S. Eliot Prize - Telegraph Article Juliette

2. In The National Museum - John Tripp. Michael

3. The Quartet (Pt 3) - T.S. Eliot. Lorraine

4. Poem from Nostalgia (film directed by Andrey Tarkovsky) - poem written by his father. Lloyd

5. Late Show - John Burnside. Juliette

6. Sonnets 27 & 47 - Shakespeare. Hannah

7. Happiness - Raymond Carver. Steve