November 26, 2012
After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California (BBC Radio 3) This is just one of those programmes I wish I had made! Fascinating and beautifully put together. I think Julian May is one of the best producers we have and poet Dana Gioia is a warm, generous voice as presenter.  Readings from some of the best Californian poets of past and present and music from Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits and John Adams.  I love Dana’s ideas about how the epic scale of California’s landscape has informed its poetry - “the overpowering presence of nature, raw and untameable on the western edge of North America: the dramatic Pacific coastline, the vast mountain ranges, the towering redwoods, enormous deserts and gentle valleys where humanity, constantly arriving in greater numbers, is the interloper.”

After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California (BBC Radio 3)

This is just one of those programmes I wish I had made! Fascinating and beautifully put together. I think Julian May is one of the best producers we have and poet Dana Gioia is a warm, generous voice as presenter. 

Readings from some of the best Californian poets of past and present and music from Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits and John Adams. 

I love Dana’s ideas about how the epic scale of California’s landscape has informed its poetry - “the overpowering presence of nature, raw and untameable on the western edge of North America: the dramatic Pacific coastline, the vast mountain ranges, the towering redwoods, enormous deserts and gentle valleys where humanity, constantly arriving in greater numbers, is the interloper.”

5:59pm
Filed under: poetry california radio 3 bbc radio 
November 7, 2012
Does poetry work on the radio?

2:37pm
Filed under: radio 4 guardian poetry 
May 25, 2012
Researching rock and stone for a new project I came across this rather lovely audio slideshow on the Guardian website.  “Poetry in motion: exploring Simon Armitage’s new Stanza Stone trail in West Yorkshire – audio slideshow The brooding natural landscape of West Yorkshire has inspired writers for centuries. Now poet Simon Armitage has left his mark on the countryside by carving six verses into rocks along the 47-mile Stanza Stones Trail. He tells Kevin Rushby how keen-eyed walkers might spot a seventh ‘secret stanza’ and reads from his poem Mist” Click image to watch on the Guardian website

Researching rock and stone for a new project I came across this rather lovely audio slideshow on the Guardian website. 

“Poetry in motion: exploring Simon Armitage’s new Stanza Stone trail in West Yorkshire – audio slideshow

The brooding natural landscape of West Yorkshire has inspired writers for centuries. Now poet Simon Armitage has left his mark on the countryside by carving six verses into rocks along the 47-mile Stanza Stones Trail. He tells Kevin Rushby how keen-eyed walkers might spot a seventh ‘secret stanza’ and reads from his poem Mist”

Click image to watch on the Guardian website

12:19pm
Filed under: poetry rock stone yorkshire simon armitage 
May 10, 2012
More Pejk Malinovski… this time in an excellent jumper… thanks to Jessie Levene for the link.  Passing Stranger: An East Village Poetry Walk - Audio Tour  I wish, i wish, i wish… to be there in New York to walk those streets.  Great article about the project in the New York Times 

More Pejk Malinovski… this time in an excellent jumper… thanks to Jessie Levene for the link. 

Passing Stranger: An East Village Poetry Walk - Audio Tour 

I wish, i wish, i wish… to be there in New York to walk those streets. 

Great article about the project in the New York Times 

10:18am
Filed under: poetry pejk malinovski nyc new york audio radio walking 
May 10, 2012
Very excited about this feature - coming up on Radio 4 on Monday next week. Sean Street heard a preview and said it was one of the best radio features he’s ever heard. And you best believe Sean has listened to a LOT of radio features. “Poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular - Aristotle, Poetics Poetry, Texas, is a radio documentary by Pejk Malinovski. It’s about Poetry. What is Poetry? “Haaard work.” According to Rick Rice. He lives alone in a trailer with his dog, in the small Texan town of that name. “It’s a lot of haaard working people. You can see that just driving up and down the road. The bales of hay sitting there. The cattle. It’s just a lot of hard working people, trying to make an honest dime.” Malinovski, a third generation Danish poet, came across Poetry on Google and decided to venture out there to find the poetry of Poetry. Poetry is not really a town, it’s a bunch of houses along a road with a gas station in the middle, three churches and a school. And a Taxidermist. “It’s hard to know where poetry starts and where poetry stops now, back in the day it was well defined.” Says Rick Salisbury of Poetry Taxidermy Pejk Malinovski takes the listeners gently and humorously by the hand and shows them a fresh way to look at Poetry. Free from dusty books and literary experts, free even from poets. But full of life. Produced by Pejk Malinovski A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. Click picture to listen (from Monday). 

Very excited about this feature - coming up on Radio 4 on Monday next week.

Sean Street heard a preview and said it was one of the best radio features he’s ever heard. And you best believe Sean has listened to a LOT of radio features.

“Poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular - Aristotle, Poetics

Poetry, Texas, is a radio documentary by Pejk Malinovski. It’s about Poetry. What is Poetry?

“Haaard work.” According to Rick Rice. He lives alone in a trailer with his dog, in the small Texan town of that name. “It’s a lot of haaard working people. You can see that just driving up and down the road. The bales of hay sitting there. The cattle. It’s just a lot of hard working people, trying to make an honest dime.”

Malinovski, a third generation Danish poet, came across Poetry on Google and decided to venture out there to find the poetry of Poetry.

Poetry is not really a town, it’s a bunch of houses along a road with a gas station in the middle, three churches and a school. And a Taxidermist.

“It’s hard to know where poetry starts and where poetry stops now, back in the day it was well defined.” Says Rick Salisbury of Poetry Taxidermy

Pejk Malinovski takes the listeners gently and humorously by the hand and shows them a fresh way to look at Poetry. Free from dusty books and literary experts, free even from poets. But full of life.

Produced by Pejk Malinovski

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Click picture to listen (from Monday). 

10:11am
Filed under: falling tree poetry radio feature texas documentary