
Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Is It Better to Read a Poet's Own Poem?
Do you think that it's always better to hear a poet read their own poetry, or is it just a separate thing? Can you get readers of poems who do it better than the poet? Does that make sa am? I mean, this is abot reading poetry. A, it really made such a huge difference to so many people in ireland, andi presume here also, when they saw shamesini reading his poem. So that that will be one real example of hearing somebody and it making an enormous difference to the poems. And the poem with actors is that they act. You can hear bishop and gunn just deciding, i'm not acting. I'm not doing that
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