Aldeburgh Conversation: Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott in a packed 8-minute conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 touching on how good poetry...
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Aldeburgh Conversation: Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan talks to Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 about the predicament of being an Irish poet, saying the...
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Aldeburgh Conversation: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Chris Wallace-Crabbe in conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011, reflecting on how his writing has...
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Aldeburgh Conversation: Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock in conversation with Robert Seatter at Aldeburgh 2011 explaining her 10 year absence from writing poems...
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Poem Show 11 – Poetry Prom Special
Three poems from the 2011 Poetry Prom’s magnificent trio of great British women poets: Helen Dunmore, Jackie...
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A giant of American poetry and now the newly appointed US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine memorably appeared at...
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Simon Armitage In Conversation
Edited highlights of Simon Armitage’s recent sell-out evening at the Ip-Art Festival when he was on great form...
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At the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival we conducted an experiment – inviting poets to take an hour-long retreat...
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Poetry & Landscape with Alice Oswald
Nature and the English landscape have always been central to Alice Oswald’s concerns. Alice believes in our...
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Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Inua Ellams
Are there parallels between writing and martial arts films? Nigerian-born Inua Ellams says definitely – both...
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Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire discusses growing up in 1950s New Zealand, the sense that “real life might be happening...
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Poem Show 10 - American Special III
Three poems celebrating language in all its richness from three fine American poets. Barbara Hamby’s ‘Ode...
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Aldeburgh Close Reading: Dorianne Laux
Close Readings at Aldeburgh are one of the Festival's most popular events, where we ask a poet to talk about a...
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Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: Marie Howe
Marie Howe in conversation with Nick Patrick at the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, talking about how art gives our...
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What has 800 fingers, 160 feet and 80 heads sprouting fresh ideas and new poems? It’s the Aldeburgh Poetry...
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Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with Robert Seatter, discussing her wide range of influences – everything from...
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Three poems from the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival by three of the most richly talented young poets on the UK scene....
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Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: John Glenday
John Glenday in conversation with Robert Seatter about the fourteen year incubation period for his acclaimed...
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Aldeburgh Backchat 2010: JO Morgan
JO Morgan talks about the strangeness of winning the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the ‘deep mulling’...
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Aldeburgh Conversation 2010: Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein in conversation with Robert Seatter, discussing poetry and memoir and the transitions of her...
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