Welcome to the PoetCasting E-Residency

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by alexpryce

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Do not adjust your television sets.

Welcome to March 2010, and the PoetCasting guest blogging month. As part of Save Our Presses I will be highlighting the riches of regional Arts events and introducing you to some new ways of engaging with small presses through the Internet.

First, though, I should introduce myself. Since April 2007, I have been Director of PoetCasting, a not for profit poetry podcasting initiative. Since April 2007, I have traveled the length and breadth of the UK recording poets reading their own work, and seen in this task the very great value various forms of publishing bring to readers.

I’m currently doing a MA in Modern Literature at the University of Leicester, and in the course of that study I’ve come across lots of canonical literature. While that has been wonderful, what attracted me most to modern and contemporary literature was the great works found not in anthologies or classics editions but in presses I’d never heard of before.

Emily Dickinson calls March ‘the Month of Expectation’, so to whet your appetites, here is a round up of what I’ll be blogging about. I’ll be reporting from and about events in the East Midlands – including the Writing Industries Conference 2010 and States of Independence (regional press day). I’ll also be posting weekly small press podcasts by compiling some representatives of magazines and presses which have been included on PoetCasting.

Throughout the whole month I’ll be asking the friends and followers of PoetCasting on Facebook and Twitter to tell me the name of a small press they love, and in the last week I’ll be compiling a compendium of links and recommendations. If you want to get involved today, post your suggestion here, to @PoetCasting on Twitter or join the PoetCasting group on Facebook.