Click here to access the historic recordings of Tom Paulin as well as a brief biography of this author.

Tom Paulin (b. 1949) is a poet, essayist, editor and lecturer, and a regular panelist on the BBC's Newsnight Review. He won the Somerset Maugham award for his first Faber collection, A State of Justice, and was recently awarded a NESTA grant for an ambitious cross-generic project to present the Second World War in a manner that embraces various forms of poetry, history, drama, biography and politics. He is also probably the only poet to have an indie-rock band named after him.

Paulin's poetry embraces a wide range of subjects. His recording was made on 8 December 2004 at the Audio Workshop, London, and produced by Richard Carrington. From this page, you can hear the voice of Tom Paulin reading four of his poems: "In the Meat-Safe," "Desertmartin," "Klee/Cover" and "Sea Wind."

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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