Friday 22nd April 2016 at 1pm – Sound Stories
Luke Clancy explores our experience of sound
This Week: Sound and the spoken word. Lecturer in American Literature at UCD, Nerys Williams looks at Sylvia Plath`s unique understanding of sound in her poetry, specifically in her poem The Applicant, as well as discussing the confrontational poetry of Amira Barraka.
Laurie Anderson talks about the art of spoken word and her story “ouija board”. Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto of New York band The Books discuss use of spoken word in their music