Poetry Forum

Welcome to the PG iPod - where you can listen to poets from the Poets' Graves forum reading their poems.

We are keen to expand this collection, so if you've had a "Featured Poem" or received positive feedback for a poem posted in the "Experienced" section - we'd like to hear from you. We require a good quality recording in wav. or MP3 format.

Audio adds a whole new dimension to the experience of poetry (honest) - even if, like me, you sound like Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer.

Come on, don't be shy.

Beware - sound quality may vary according to your internet connection and sound card. Therefore, if a poem sounds like it was recorded inside a cardboard box, this may not be down to us.

Enjoy,

Cam

ps if all you see is a black space, you may need to hit the refresh button.

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Well done cameron! Nice little app you got there! Great feature.

And here I was driving my cursor around the dial at the front. Curses! It must be a fake iPod. hehehe.

Have just added Geoff's Ladybird Book of Fairy tales - read by Ursula!

Fantastic...

Hilarious Geoff. Ursula reads it brilliantly.

Everyone should listen to this one!

Thanks.

Cam

It was a good idea to have Ladybird Book of Fairytales read by a female voice - the Listen with Mother effect. Makes it a damn sight funnier than when I read it to myself.

Excellent.

Ursula has asked me to say thank you - she is most chuffed.

Cheers
Geoff

"FUCK ME, he's right"

The feminine guile just makes that line, brill.

was good to hear some of those recitals and while i might have been expecting a few more melodramatic ginsberg-esque thunderings over the wire, i enjoyed the mixture of accents there. to that note i think i'll visit another rather interestin thread in another part of the forum ..

btw im suprised this doesnt attract more interest. maybe its because everyones a computer idiot like me

Hey guys!
I just stumbled across this and would really love to contribute if I'd be allowed!
If so what do I do with my recording once I've done it?

Great idea,
All the best
Phil

If you are actually keen to expand this section it might be useful to allow poetry that has not only been posted in the experienced section. I don't think I am alone in posting by choice where I see fit on this forum. I am allowed to post in experienced by invitation, but personally see the whole place as a complete forum, perhaps like a school with many rooms, so I post where I post. I would like to contribute to this and have found my own recordings to be comparable with much of what is already here. I don't expect to have a featured work anytime soon, but do have a reasonable number of poems that have received positive feedback, and a few almost featured. I think this ought to be based on the individual merit of the submitted poem/recording which might encourage greater participation of this very good resource you have, which is currently undersubscribed and in no way represents the full diversity of talent you are fortunate enough to have participating here.

Regards

Danté

Danté wrote:If you are actually keen to expand this section it might be useful to allow poetry that has not only been posted in the experienced section. I don't think I am alone in posting by choice where I see fit on this forum. I am allowed to post in experienced by invitation, but personally see the whole place as a complete forum, perhaps like a school with many rooms, so I post where I post. I would like to contribute to this and have found my own recordings to be comparable with much of what is already here. I don't expect to have a featured work anytime soon, but do have a reasonable number of poems that have received positive feedback, and a few almost featured. I think this ought to be based on the individual merit of the submitted poem/recording which might encourage greater participation of this very good resource you have, which is currently undersubscribed and in no way represents the full diversity of talent you are fortunate enough to have participating here.

Regards

Danté

Maybe a more sensible approach would be to have an Audio posting section for poems that have already had the once over, and if they are good enough put them on the i-pod, but still have an open section for posting audio poems as we would post normal poems?
Just a thought, (I'm not complaining or anything).

All the best
Phil

It would be good to get some more poems on the iPod. It hasn't been updated for a while. From my point of view it is quite time consuming and at the moment my available time is quite limited. What I've found in the past is that everyone records theirs at different sound levels and I have to spend time trying to alter them to fit in with the rest. If you can do good quality recordings of good quality poems I'll put them on !

That seems reasonable, I have listened to all the posts already on the player and will make the volume of my own, at the average level of what's already there and choose material that respected members of the board have deemed to be worthy of posting in the usual forums.

Many thanks

Danté

Just stumbled on this. I think there is a lot of good work everywhere people tend to post where they get a better view experienced or not.

There is some serious stuff in the beginners forum..........VERY serious! Worthy of publication without doubt. Larkin would be proud of it.

Good luck with this project.



DJL

I like your voice wow!

I have been posting in the young forum I didn't realise you guys are here.
Fantastic and I love you. will be doing stuff soon....promise.

It's great!

x

I've listened to a number of these and was especially moved to hear Barrie's recordings....

I love this ipod feature. I have two old poems that were featured and have finally found a way to record them with a free device. I'll get onto it just to be included in the lot. Thanks for putting this up. I'll return here over time to enjoy.

Check out Kim's sexy voice - just uploaded the Lateness of Summer.

Well done, Kim!

Do you do requests? ("Language of Shade" and "Path to the Volcano", please)

Scorchio! Great gosh almighty, Kim. What a beautiful voice.

Awww, Oskar! You are making me blush...

Geoff, I will make sure I do both of those this week but today not so good. I have an awful head cold and sound like a mix of Lauren Bacall and Ernest Borgnine. LOL!

Cheers,
Kim

Yes, this is lovely. More please.

juliadebeauvoir wrote:I have an awful head cold and sound like a mix of Lauren Bacall and Ernest Borgnine. LOL!

That sounds perfect. Quick, record Je t'aime ... moi non plus before your cold gets better.

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Kim, let me add my praise too!
I'm currently working on a long poem that I'd like to record using several different voices. Please PM me if you're interested.

B.

And another one from KIm - The Language of Shade.