Poetry is the basis of all forms of songwriting...Most people these days think poetry is simply a written art form to be read to
oneself in silence,but this is only a phenomenon of the last few centuries with the advent of the printing press etc....prior to this poetry was purely a word of mouth form rarely written down and performed as commonly as its musical hybrid "song"...Its when one takes on board what poetry realy is...Not just dry words on paper for these are just the notation just as in music...poems need to be interpreted and brought to life in sound form just as much as a song or piece of music...

You can hear dozens of classic and original English poems set to music and acoustic music of all sorts at these unique sound websites..
acoustic musicians and poets sound archive

sound poetry

Regards.

Jim Clark..London..England..