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Podcasts for StAnza 2011

We're producing short Audioboos during this year's StAnza. Check out our StAnza Audioboo page. Longer podcasts will be released after the festival is over.

Listen to our podcasts from 2009 and 2010

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The StAnza experience is all about the live interaction between poets and their poetry, but in case you weren't able to come along, we provided daily podcasts in 2009 and 2010. They were produced by Colin Fraser of Anon Poetry Magazine with incidental music by Ewen Maclean.

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StAnza on Sunday




In our Sunday podcast, we include highlights from the Border Crossings event with Canadian Gaelic poet Lewis Mackinnon and Croatian Mario Susko. Rob A Mackenzie reads a poem which could not have existed without the internet. Director's Cut poet Jen Hadfield reads work concerning Canada and Shetland and we include two poems from Mario Petrucci on science and love.

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Saturday's StAnza Podcast




Today's podcast is infused with the two themes of this year's festival - Myth and Legend and the Director's Cut. In the former we have an excerpt from the Poetry Breakfast which featured Moniza Alvi, Tiffany Atkinson, Stephen Halliwell and Rebecca Seiferle discussing myths in poetry. In the latter we feature two great Scottish poets Tom Pow and John Glenday. We also have the pleasure to include a fragment from the Past Poets event on Ivor Cutler with his publisher and friend Tony Ward. And we got the chance to listen to the marvellous Clydebuilt poets Christie Williamson, Chloe Morrish, Susan Rosser and Gordon McInnes in the Younger Poets showcase as well as speak to one of its founders, Jim Carruth.

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Friday's choice morsels




In Friday's edition of the StAnza Festival podcast, we feature an excerpt from Thursday's StAnza lecture by Grevel Lindop as well as choice selections from the Younger Poets' Showcase event featuring Swithun Cooper, Catriona Lexy Campbell and Andreas Unterweger. We also have the pleasure to include another of Brian Johnstone's Director's Cut events featuring Grevel again - this time with his poet hat on - and award winning poet Jean Sprackland. StAnza podcast supremo Al Innes catches up with our artist in resident Jay Bernard and we finish up with the StAnza writer in residence Kei Miller reading from his as yet unpublished collection "A Light Song of Light".

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Thursday's Poetry Selection




In our Thursday podcast we have a distinct Mediterranean flavour with Valerio Magrelli accompanied by Anna Crowe, Luiz Muñoz with his translator John Burnside, Scottish poet Hamish Whyte, translator and poet Anna Crowe (in her second appearance on today's podcast) and Cumbrian Jacob Polley.

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Opening Night Podcast




We celebrate St Patrick's Day on the opening night of the 2010 StAnza festival with Irish poets Anne Marie Fyfe and Moya Cannon, Irish musicians Dordán and poet/musician/critic Cahal Dallat and add a Caribbean twist from Jamaican poet Kei Miller.

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Podcasts from the 2009 Festival

2009: Day 5 - 22st March

 On our final festival day, we've got interviews with Hardeep Singh Kohli and Jay Parini; excerpts from today's Poetry Breakfast on whether poets or actors are better readers of verse; a chance to hear Burns expert Drew Clegg explore his love of the bard; and Poetry Cabaret with the wonderful Elvis McGonagall. With thanks to musicians Ewen Maclean and Gill Bowman for their permission to use their music in this podcast. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza

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2009 Day 4 - 21st March

 Ian Rankin, Roddy Lumsden, Marco Fazzini and Stephen Scobie discuss the difference between music lyrics and poetry. Robert Crawford and Angus Peter Campbell give different perspectives on Scottish Poets of the Enlightenment. Roddy Lumsden reads from his new collection Third Wish Wasted. And we visit StAnza's Poetry Market to speak to Read This Magazine, Magma as well as Colin Will about his Homecoming Haiku challenge. With thanks to musicians Ewen Maclean and Gill Bowman for their permission to use their music in this podcast. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza

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2009 Day 3 - 20th March

 The choicest cuts from today's StAnza poetry festival. Includes an interview with and poetry from Swiss based sound poetry outfit Trio Pas Lundi; a chance to hear from StAnza lecturer Jay Parini on his memories of Alastair Reid and Jorge Luis Borges; excerpts from today's Poetry Breakfast on the state of Scottish poetry including Stuart Kelly and Roddy Lumsden, experimental poetry from Peter McCarey and a Dalek Love Song from Kevin Cadwallender. With thanks to musicians Ewen Maclean and Gill Bowman for their permission to use their music in this podcast. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza

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2009 Day 2 - 19th March

In our first full day podcast, we've got excerpts from this year's StAnza discussion, where Kate Clanchy, Thomas A Clark, David Mach, Peter McCarey and Stephen Scobie explore Scottish identity and Homecoming within the context of the national's poetic heritage. We've also got a reading from Stephen Scobie's new collection "Robert Louis Stevenson:From World's End" and a few kind words from poets Robert Crawford and Kate Clanchy about StAnza. With thanks to musicians Ewen Maclean and Gill Bowman for their permission to use their music in this podcast. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza

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2009 Day 1 - 18th March - StAnza Opening Night

Our Opening Podcast is packed full of excellent poems, music and talk. We were lucky to be able to interview sculptor David Mach before the spectacular burnings of Burns. We include readings from StAnza participants Bill Manhire and Kate Clanchy. The sublime Sheena Wellington sings the original melody for My Love is Like A Red Red Rose And we have the opening speech from First Minister Alex Salmond. With thanks to musicians Ewen Maclean and Gill Bowman for their permission to use their music in this podcast. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza

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2009 StAnza Preview Podcast

 Our first podcast gives you a flavour of what to expect at this year's festival. Including readings of Bill Manhire, Ros Brackenbury, Adam O'Riordan, Jenny Bornholdt and Robert Louis Stevenson read by Festival Director, Brian Johnstone, and Artistic Director, Eleanor Livingstone; music from singer/songwriter/playwright Gill Bowman; and readings from the poet Kate Clanchy. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser

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We thank all those included in these Podcasts for permission to use their work. Detailed permissions and acknowledgements will be included soon.

Preview Podcast thanks and acknowledgements :

Kate Clanchy for "A Man With No Sense of Smell", "Overnight", "Slattern" and "Patagonia" (Picador)
Gill Bowman for "The Lea-Rig", "Ae Fond Kiss" and "The Deil's Awa wi' th' Exciseman" which can be found on her CD Toasting the Lassies
Bill Manhire and Victoria University Press for "On Originality"
Jenny Bornholdt and Victoria University Press for "In Memory"
Ros Brackenbury for "That Moment"
Adam O'Riordan and the tall-lighthouse for "Heels".