Poetry Recordings: Valerie Bloom

A Valerie Bloom (b. 1956) reading is an uplifting experience. She moves easily around the area where poetry and song overlap, in a voice as warm in speaking as in singing, and believes that "part of the beauty of poetry is the music in the words, and a vital part of music is often the poetry in the lyrics". From this page, you can hear the voice of Valerie Bloom reading six of her poems, "Two Seasons," "The River," "Autumn Gift," "Time," "Frost," and "Granny Is."

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Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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Poetry Recordings: Valerie Bloom