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From: "Eileen Abrahams" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:53:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Half-cocked podcast
Dominic,
I'm writing a dissertation on Hill, and it includes pitch analyses of
various people reading Hill. It also happens that Ricks is on my
commiittee; so, I'd love to get a hold of Ricks reading Hill. Where did you
listen to Rick's reading, and does there exist an available recording?
Thanks-
Eileen
On 7/29/06, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I've just been listening to Christopher Ricks trying to read the early
> poems of Geoffrey Hill. He was quite surprisingly bad at it - tin ear
> for rhythm possibly, a strange defect in such an admirer of Dylan...
>
> Anyway, I've had a go at reading some of my own poems, and turning
> them into a podcast for the delectation of that vanishingly small
> percentage of the global population who both own iPods and like to
> download poetry broadcasts to listen on them. Half Cocks 1-5, plus a
> bit of me pretending to be Squarepusher, form the first broadcast
> available by pointing your podcast-consuming appliance at
> http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?feed=rss2
>
> Alternatively, you can just grab the audio file from
> http://codepoetics.com/half_cocks/half_cocks_1-5.m4a
>
> Dominic
>
--
Eileen Abrahams
Ph.D. Candidate
Editorial Fellow
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
The University of Texas at Austin
It is the precise detail of word or rhythm, which carries the ethical
burden; it is technique, rightly understood, which provides the true point
of departure for inspiration.
---Geoffrey Hill
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