{"id":1487,"date":"2008-11-27T20:12:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-11-27T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:12:27","slug":"new-podcast-by-helen-pletts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-podcast-by-helen-pletts\/","title":{"rendered":"New podcast by Helen Pletts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's the first of our new podcast series. The poem is by regular IS&T contributor Helen Pletts and was recorded in the Czech Republic, where she now lives. So, well done Helen for not only coping with the recording technology \u2013 but managing it in Czech. Helen added “The gentlemen who helped with the studio work were \u2013 in short \u2013 a bunch of darlings… patient and very very helpful… they winced slightly on one occasion when I let out a few obscenities… some words in that area seem to be universal… s**t in particular… this happened on one occasion when I became tongue-bound-up in a particular phrase… and then you realise how difficult it is to read out loud without making mistakes…”<\/span>

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She's Singing<\/span>

She's singing<\/span>
in the tube-glare<\/span>
(the main light dead to the show).<\/span>
 <\/span>
The words are slow-talking<\/span>
above the beats,<\/span>
and she is sounding more<\/span>
than the song \u2013<\/span>
more soul in those pauper's notes<\/span>
than stardom.<\/span>
 <\/span>
She lifts her heart up<\/span>
from the two-cat audience<\/span>
to the keep-corner spiders.<\/span>
 <\/span>
And the friends she hasn't<\/span>
found yet, fall into the shadows<\/span>
as she breathes her own heart<\/span>
into the microphone.<\/span>
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