PoetCasting

For all you poets and poetry lovers out there, Poetcasting.co.uk is an enterprising project by a young poet to record and podcast poets in the UK.

The website says:

“The PoetCasting project was created by Alex Pryce, an 19 year old student and poet. She was concerned that performance and academic poets were becoming increasingly isolated from each other, and felt that the poetry community wasn’t aware of the potential the internet holds for the future of all media, including poetry.

The aim of PoetCasting is to work with poets throughout the UK to podcast their work. The project will work with performance poets, published poets, new poets, established poets and everything in between.”

If you’re a poet looking to widen your audience, this project could be a great opportunity to reach out across the internet. There’s a contact page for Alex on the site.

If like me, you like poetry read out loud, you can go and listen to their podcasts - no more trundling out on cold, rainy nights to poetry readings in smokey cafes or pubs , just pure poetry in the comfort of your own iPod…

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UPDATE: I heard from Alex Pryce this morning (that was quick!) with the following:

“Hey!

Just a quick note to thank you for the heads up on FusionView for
PoetCasting.

If you know any poets you’d reccomend for PoetCasting, I’d be more than happy to follow up any suggestions!

Yours,
Alex”

I hope you’ll contact Poetcasting with your recommendations - please mention Fusion View if you do.