英國BBC Poetry Arhive 日前在其網站公佈最近修復的歷史錄音。 讓失傳已久的詩人「聲音記錄」重現光明。 Poetry Archive unveils lost voices http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1960757,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10 Sarah Crown Thursday November 30, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The Poetry Archive celebrated its first anniversary today, unveiling on its website a selection of newly-recovered historic recordings of poets from Siegfried Sassoon to Stevie Smith. Members of the Poetry Archive worked closely with staff at the BBC to retrieve the remarkable recordings, many of which were believed to have been lost forever. Sassoon, who already featured on the website reading 'The Dug-Out', can now be heard reading 'Everyone Sang', a poem celebrating Armistice Day which ranks among the best-known of his works. Dylan Thomas, who is currently the most requested historic voice on the site, appears with two new readings: 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London' and 'In My Craft or Sullen Art'. Larkin fans, meanwhile, will be delighted by the recovery of a 1980s recording of the poet reading 'Mr Bleaney', 'The Whitsun Weddings' and 'The Trees'. The session was conducted with John Weeks, a colleague from Hull University where Larkin was chief librarian, apparently for the local radio station, BBC Radio Humberside. Weeks' son found the recording amongst his father's tapes. Other additions to the site include Walter de la Mare reading 'Thomas Hardy' and Robert Graves reading 'The White Goddess'. Paul Gerhardt, head of the creative archive project at the BBC, said he was "delighted to facilitate the recovery of these important recordings." "The BBC's archives contain a treasure trove of heritage items," he said, "and to find them and bring them to life we need to work with passionate and inspirational organisations like the Poetry Archive." Founded last November by the poet laureate, Andrew Motion, and the recording producer Richard Carrington, the Poetry Archive is the world's foremost collection of recordings of poets reading their work. It was set up both to rediscover and preserve old poetry recordings, and to record the voices of contemporary poets, from Margaret Atwood to Don Paterson. In the space of a year it has developed a substantial following, receiving more than 500,000 visitors in just 12 months. "The archive has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as an incomparable resource for the general public, and for pupils, students and teachers," said Motion. "The new voices added to celebrate our first anniversary can only solidify and increase its value. "We often read reports in the newspapers and elsewhere saying that the audience for poetry is in decline, and that the form itself is in danger of becoming an endangered species," he continued. "The very large number of people who have used the archive during the last 12 months proves otherwise - and in the years ahead the archive will be doing everything it can to broadcast and deepen still further the pleasures, challenges, excitements and recognitions that poetry offers." --

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