Downloadable and streamed resources
Audio creative writing resources for British Council projects that you can share plus some resources from UK literary websites. You can listen or view these resoucres whilst on the internet and in some cases also download them as mp3s.
Crossing Borders
- Writing for radio
- Prose writing (coming soon)
- Poetry (coming soon)
Performance poets and rappers featured in the British Council Power in the Voice project
Mic B
Francesca Beard
Poems featured as part of the Power in the Voice performance peotry workshop:
Contender for the Dumbest Things mp3
The Poem That Was Really a List mp3
Listen to more of Francesca Beard's poems on her own website's Poem Archive
Breis
Charlie Dark
Listen to Charlie Dark on MySpace
Zena Edwards
Listen to Zena Edwards on MySpace
The Poetry Quartets
Over two hours of streamed audio extracts from the British Council/Bloodaxe contemporary poetry recordings.
In Real Audio and Windows Media Player formats. With an introduction by the poet as well the poem. Playlist files link together the Introduction and Poem parts.
The Poetry Quartets: 1
Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay, Glyn Maxwell
The Poetry Quartets: 2
Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Selima Hill, Carol Rumens
The Poetry Quartets: 3
Tony Harrison, Peter Reading, Ken Smith
The Poetry Quartets: 4
Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley
The Poetry Quartets: 5
Helen Dunmore, U. A. Fanthorpe, Jo Shapcott
The Poetry Quartets: 6
Moniza Alvi, Michael Donaghy, Anne Stevenson, George Szirtes
The Poetry Quartets: 7
W. N. Herbert, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson
The Poetry Quartets: 8
David Constantine
The Poetry Quartets: 9
Benjamin Zephaniah - Dis Poetry, Macho Man, The London Breed, White Comedy
Anne Rouse, Ian Duhig, Matthew Sweeney
Flash animated poems from The Poetry Quartets:
David Constantine's Streams; animation by Ian Kirk.
Don Patterson's The Eyes; animation by Ian Kirk.
Benjamin Zephaniah's London Breed; animation by Kristina Hedderly
Jo Shapcott's Mrs Noah: taken at the flood; animation by Kristina Hedderly.
Selma Hill's My Sister's Poodle is Accused of Eating the Housekeeping Money (From my Sister's Sister)
George Szirtes' The Button Maker's Tale
W. N. Herbert's A Difficult Horse
Moniza Alvi's I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miro
Helen Dunmore's Those Shady Girls.
Poems on the Underground
Listen to a selection of Poems on the Underground read by the authors and editors. The poems are also available as downloadable audio files. Right-click of the mp3 file and 'Save Target As' into a folder.
Fleur Adcock
James Berry
Valerie Bloom
Wendy Cope
The Uncertainty of the Poet mp3
Ruth Fainlight
Christopher Logue
Roger McGough
Edwin Morgan
The Loch Ness Monster's Song mp3
Paul Muldoon
Grace Nichols
Other streamed and downloadable poems, fiction and author interviews
57Productions Poetry Jukebox
Listen to poems on 57Productions Poetry Jukebox by over 40 poets - highlight the poem and click on > to play.
57Productions IPoems and Poetry Video-Jukebox
A dynamic electronic catalogue with audio, audio-visual and interactive features. Host to the iPoems system and the worlds' first Poetry Video-Jukebox (subcription service - £10.00 for one years streaming access or 50p per audio-file and £1.00 per audio-visual file).
Listen to a range of poets including John Hegley, Benjamin Zephaniah and Adrian Mitchell. Poems commissioned for the World Service programme Lyrics. Poems by Post broadcast on The Word programme. Listen to audio interviews with poets on BBC Four.
Authors talking about their books and why they write.
Download author interviews from the Hay Festival - pay by £1.00 per credit (download costs vary).
UK website where you can download monthly podcasts featuring unsigned music, poetry and prose. Listeners can submit their own mp3s.
Short video clips of authors talking about their books. With over 800 author clips.
One Word
Online literary radio site - listen to book extracts and series, plus author interviews.
Download mp3s from UK spoken word artists and short films.
