Jennifer Williams
speaker
219 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 7 Jul
Jennifer Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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people can absorb them almost without even knowing can't they because they're engaged they're enjoying themselves they're probably laughing and at the same time you might be talking about existentialism or post-structuralism yeah yeah and it's kind of it it's all in there but it's it's very different than if someone was giving a lecture or reading very seriously from a book like this
Yeah, no, I think it's exciting.
And you have directed plays and written plays as well, like proper plays.
I guess that's the other nice thing about performance poetry is that it's very much you working with yourself.
So I think something like theatre or film, it's always a collaborative process on some level, whereas you can really...
work on that yourself, even if you are, you know, I suppose it is a collaboration with the audience ultimately.
I do think that is great, again, for any poet or writer is to have a, you know, whether it's a notebook or a file on your computer where you just, you store great ideas, great lines, bits you cut out of other poems.
Don't throw that stuff away because it can always be something you come back to and incorporate into new work.
I mean, do you ever feel that you will publish someday or that that will be something that eventually you'll kind of go, oh, well, at least I want a record of this to exist after I'm gone?
Or do you just think, no, that will go against everything I've ever, all the work I've done?
Or that it's not the right form for what you do?
But there is that, I mean, I think more so in poetry when it's spoken, performed, that bardic quality of it in a way can come out, really expose itself.
I mean, I think that should be in all poetry, that it should all work when, you know, arguably all poetry should be read out and heard and experienced in that way.
Do you have advice for people who maybe are...
haven't explored performing or reading out their poetry and their thinking about it.
I mean, for me, for instance, something I've always struggled with is that I don't feel like I'm good at memorising and it doesn't come very naturally to me.
And I know I can do it, but I have to work really hard.
And the thought of memorising a whole hour-long show is terrifying to me.
About the hour long.
I think probably when I first met you, you might have been at Kin.
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