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Carcanet launches Listen Here! a new audio poetry library

Friday, 10 Jul 2009

Listen Here! This week Carcanet launches a new audio library, Listen Here!. Regularly updated, this rich online resource includes Carcanet podcasts, recordings of poems and interviews from some of our most celebrated poets such as John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, C.K. Stead, Elaine Feinstein, Fred D'Aguiar and Gillian Clarke, as well as emerging voices such as Matthew Welton and Katharine Kilalea. Readers can also access transcripts of some of our interviews, podcasts and individual poems to follow along, available free on the Carcanet Issuu webpage and on www.carcanet.co.uk.

Click here to experience Listen Here!. You can use the author or keyword search to discover a wealth of audio material or browse our featured audio clips, which include:

Elaine Feinstein reading 'An Attempt at Jealousy' by Marina Tsvetaeva (3:05 mins)
Les Murray reading 'Bat's Ultrasound' (0:57 min)

Bill Manhire reading and discussing 'Erebus Voices' (2:29 mins)
John Ashbery reading 'Local Legend' (1:52 mins)


We are keen to develop Listen Here! in the best way for our readers. Click here to take part in our audio poll at www.carcanet.co.uk. The best responses will win a FREE COPY of one of this month’s titles, Polder by Chris McCully or 'We needed coffee but...' by Matthew Welton.










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