October is National Poetry Month in the UK so no apologies for some of the recycling here. Anyway, look on this as an exercise in exploiting Web 2.0 resources. A lot of the sites below offer podcasts or mp3 files of poems. Some are available as iTunes subscriptions. Almost all are very good (there's some mighty fine dross out there - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock with Blugrass guitar & a Dixie accent? Perhaps not...)
- The Poetry Foundation
- The Scottish Poetry Library
- The Poetry Society
- Poets.org
- Poem Present
- Classic Poetry Aloud
- Poetry In English, 1650-1880
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
Many thanks for the reference to Classic Poetry Aloud. I'm not sure how much it's a Web 2.0 site (the level of interactivity is fairly low) but it certainly is a podcast that reaches an international audience. And it stays clear of bluegrass guitar, too.
Classic Poetry Aloud
Classic Poetry Aloud
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