Guide Picks: Recent Poetry CDs

Want to discover new poetry with your ears? Here’s what we do: put a CD on and never take it out... We’ve updated our selection of the best recently issued poetry recordings with some new releases, and given the ephemeral nature of poetry CDs in the world marketplace, you ought to seek them out sooner rather than later:

• Genie of the Alphabet, by Janet Hamill with Moving Star
• Live Bait, by Laura E.J. Moran
• Caught in the Act, by Whitman McGowan
• Talk Engine, by Jackie Sheeler/Talk Engine
• Zero Tolerance, by Attila the Stockbroker/Barnstormer
• Mali Music, by Damon Albarn with Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabate, Ko Sata Doumbia
• Frankonodou, by Diefadimia Kante

Related resources:
Poetry CD Store (comprehensive list of all the CDs we’ve recommended)
Guide Picks: CD anthologies
Poetry Picks: Best CDs of 2004