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Suitable Poetry – Fry and Laurie

A humorous sketch from the BBC comedy “A Bit of Fry and Laurie“, which I never heard of until Simon from Slam Idol interviewed Stephen Fry a few years ago about his book “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
” (aff). I still need to purchase that. American fans may recognize Hugh Laurie from his role in the current television show “House“.

Enjoy:

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The Slam Idol Podcast Celebrates 5 Years of Poetry!

Slam Idol PodcastCongratulations to Simon from Slam Idol! Yesterday, April 1st, he celebrated 5 years of producing The Slam Idol Podcast. The longest running and most consistent poetry podcast ever.

As you can tell by searching this site, I’ve been a big fan all this time.

Many poetry related podcasts…

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005 Poet Tech Podcast – Talking Tech With Simon From Slam Idol

Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poet Tech Podcast – Episode #005

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This episode features a discussion I had with Simon from The Slam Idol Podcast.  We talk about the history of poetry podcasting, where we are now,  what are the current trends, and what the future of poetry in tech and social media…

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089 The Poetry Podcast – Interview with Gordon Buss

Cloudy Day Art Presents:
The Poetry Podcast – Show #89

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This week’s show features a recording of an interview that I did with poet Gordon Buss over the weekend.  We had a great conversation about poetry, performing, sources of inspiration, and other topics. Gordon also shared three of his poems for us:…

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001 Poet Tech Podcast – Why Poet Tech?

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Welcome to the first episode of The Poet Tech Podcast!

In this week’s episode we discuss:

  • The purpose of The Poet Tech Podcast
  • Play a welcome message from Simon from Slam Idol
  • Talk about the benefits and distractions of tech and social media
  • How we can ensure tech

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Cloudy Day Art #78 – Billy Jones aka Billy the Blogging Poet

Bill the Blogging PoetThis week’s poetry podcast features an interview with blogging poet, aka ““.

I decided to interview Billy after coming across a blog that was participating is his “” Poetry Carnival. It was a great conversation and I’m looking forward to having him back on for more!

From…

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Cloudy Day Art #77 – The Free Poetry Show!

Finally! Another Cloudy Day Art poetry podcast has finally been released. It seems time goes by so fast these days. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the poetry featured in this show, courtesy of and .

Poetry featured:

” by of ““; remixed by

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Cloudy Day Art #76 – 7 Ways to Support Poetry During National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month Poster It’s here in the United States, so I decided to share 7 easy ways that we all can use to support poetry this month. No, you don’t have to be from the U.S. to take part. These 7 ways can be used where ever you are.

  1. Read more poetry
  2. Talk about poetry
  3. Write a poem
  4. Support other poets
  5. Share poetry with someone
  6. Go

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Cloudy Day Art #74 – March Second Sunday – Women

It’s a celebration of women for this “” poetry podcast. Thanks to Julian from London for the great idea for this month’s theme.

There was a great response to “Second Sunday” coming back and I’m definitely glad to have the input from so many great everyday poets once again.

Thanks!

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Featuring the poetry of:

Julian Conway – “In A Care Home Elderly She Sits”

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Cloudy Day Art #73 – Poetry and Promos

Welcome back everybody.

This week’s show has a little different feel than my previous poetry podcasts. I think it is because the three poems I share have little to no sounds besides the poets voice.

No music.

I think I like the rawness of that.

Poets featured:

  • with “From a Desert Island” (Gordon thanks “Dan at Compact Sound’s railway cuttings studio, Cholsey, for the help”)
  • Thom Ingram with “

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Poets Against the War – Video Podcast?

I’ve been contemplating doing a video poetry podcast ever since Simon put together the a couple of months ago, but I never could come up with a good reason to do one. Well, now I believe I have.

The DC are organizing a contingent of poets from around the country to take part in this weekend’s “

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