p2p news / p2pnet: The voice of Rudyard Kipling will soon be heard online. He’s among class poets who’ll be available on the new BBC’s free Poetry Archive web site.

Others will include Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, Betjeman and Sassoon.

The idea is to, “ensure current leading English-speaking poets are recorded reading their own work for future generations,” says the BBC.

But the site won’t merely be a kind of online Dead Poets society.

“Working poets” featured will include Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter, says the Beeb.

The archive was created by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and recording producer Richard Carrington.

Also read:-
BBC – Classic poets’ voices go online, November 30, 2005

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