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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Do you find that as you perform them, they change and that's part of editing them almost?
Absolutely.
It is in and of itself a totally
great focus and, you know, for someone like yourself, you've made a whole career out of it.
But I think even for people for whom that isn't their ultimate goal, it's a really invaluable technique.
I've heard people say that Paradise Lost should be much shorter and it would be a better poem, and I wonder if he'd been performing it, what would have happened to him?
Do you have...
favourite poets or poems that you feel like inspire you?
I feel like you know in your poems it's very musical and rhythmical and you can hear all that resonating when you're performing and that has always felt to me, yeah there's a deep kind of musical connection for you.
Shall we have another poem and we'll talk some more?
But also revelation too is, you know, to each individual as important as it is.
I'm getting your...
Performance even here in this room.
There is there's theater going on.
There's comedy going on.
There's poetry going on.
There's some sort of meta linguistics going on there's
and social commentary you know that all these things are sort of happening once and you're moving your body and you're using your voice and I've heard you talk about the art of performance poetry as being something that needs to encapsulate all these are all tools in your toolbox in a way is that how you
would describe it, or how do you feel about that?
But it also means you can grapple with quite big ideas and...
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