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| |  Andrew Motion, UK Poet Laureate Listen up! In this edition we hear about a brilliant new website to stretch your listening skills...
www.poetryarchive.co.uk was launched at the end of last year at the British Library in London. At The Poetry Archive website, you'll find readings by contemporary English-language poets - like Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney - and poets from the past - like Siegfried Sassoon, who reads one of his haunting poems about the First World War. In the programme, the UK Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, explains what's so special about listening to a poem read by the poet who wrote it, and what you can do at The Poetry Archive beside listen to poems. You can download the complete programme and also the script at the bottom of this page.
Words and expressions from the programme fascination when you find something fascinating - extremely interesting fundamental forming the base, from which everything else originates; more important than anything else supplementary extra, additional a mass a large amount of something a magnet something people feel strongly attracted to Extras   Programme script (pdf - 21k) Download this programme (mp3 - 1.4mb) The Poetry Archive websiteThe British Library websiteThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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