Scottish poetry collection : Video playlist

BRYAN - You clearly enjoy reading your work aloud. What do we get out of poetry when we hear it spoken like that?

NADINE - So, I mean, I think one of the best things that you get out of poetry is that is the poet’s own voice. And so, for example, with mine, it always comes out with a bit of a Yorkshire accent, even in the way that I say that I say certain things. But when you when you have a poem on the page, you can play with it so much in terms of how you lay it out and how you translate something else to the reader through the setting on the page. But when you read it aloud, when you speak it aloud, you’re able to take some of that emotion and some of your own intention and impart that to a reader, as if telling a story in many ways.