Audio Archives
BBC Poetry Season
| Person Describing Archive | Annie Murray (2010); Chelsea Obodoechina (2020) |
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| Is this primarily a poetry audio site? | N (Mostly a general poetry portal) |
| Sponsoring Person or Institution | BBC |
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| Site Last Updated | |
| Date Visited | 20202020/07/23 |
| General Description of Archive | UPDATE (Chelsea Obodoechina): This BBC portal has been archived since 2014 and will therefore see no further updates. NO audio! This is a general British poetry site: some video, some texts, and snippets from BBC shows about the poets. There are 30 poets included in the project. There are no audio recordings (as far as I can tell) of the poets reading. |
| Description of archive history or URL | Seems to be part of the bigger BBC web presence, could not find specific information about the Poetry Season. |
| Contact information | There is a general BBC feedback form: http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/ |
| Searchable options | There is no free text search box, but the site allows you to "search" by theme on the right hand side of the page: themes are presented like a tag cloud. |
| Relation from the audio to the text | None, there are no text poems nor BBC video content about a poet.
Update: Video links are non-responsive. |
| Date/Time/Length/Context info about the audio items | No audio, just video. |
| Author bios and context within literary history | Nice little portal for each of the 30 poets: a bio, BBC footage (if any) and selected poems (text only). |
| Audio file type: streaming, download, file format, audio file compression quality (WAV, MP3, bitrate) | No audio. |
| Multimedia integration (pictures, video, etc.) | Pictures and video, nicely designed site. |
| Audio playback setup (opens in Flash player, on new blank screen, etc.) | No audio. Footage requires Flash Player 9 to access. |
| Mobile access (i.e. accessible on smart phones, tablets, etc.) | Accessible via mobile devices (smart phones and tablets). Works like the browser version of the portal. |
| Browsing | You can click on the poet's name, or click on words that describe the poem's themes. Under "Poems", all documented poems in this portal are listed via alphabetical order.
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| Discovery features (pre-made playlists; dynamic lists: lists of recent additions, featured items, related items, etc). | |
| Interactivity and Web 2.0 features | Users can vote on their favourite poem.
Update: As the page is now archived, votes will no longer be held in this portal. A "Vote" page still exists which shows the results of the last poll which was held in 2009. |
| Other notes | Under "Spoken Word", a series of columns are available to read on the BBC Poetry Season, the last of which was on October 9, 2009. Each column details events for the upcoming month and a small part at the end lists "New Talent", followed by external links to their personal pages. Unfortunately, these links no longer work. |