UPSIDEDOWNISMS, by Ergo Phizmiz, on The Verb, BBC Radio 3, 20/01/12

Tune into The Verb on BBC Radio 3 (a "cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performances...") this Friday to hear a new, short-form radioplay by Ergo Phizmiz called UPSIDEDOWNISMS.

From Radio 3:

Valerie Bloom performs new writing especially comissioned for The Verb, and talks about her use of the Creole language and the importance of oral story telling in her work.



Poet Kenneth Stevens has translated the award winning Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christensen, and presents a Verb masterclass on his work - novels such as the Model and The Half Brother.


And composer, writer and artist Ergo Phizmiz presents a scientific-operatic treatise on the art and mechanics of turning things upside down

The programme broadcasts at 10pm GMT, 20/01/12. Listen live at BBC Radio 3, or on BBC iPlayer for one week after the broadcast.

Poetry Lab, on BBC Radio 3

Ergo Phizmiz has composed the new theme tune for Poetry Lab on BBC Radio 3's The Verb. This will premiere this coming Friday (June 5th) at 2115 UK time.

Pointballing 2 : Macaroon - On BBC Radio 3 tonight

Tune into The Verb on BBC Radio 3 tonight for the second instalment of Ergo Phizmiz's "Pointballing". In a Victorian themed special of The Verb, Ergo presents a radiophonic adventure in spoken-word, sound-design, songs, and music, set during the reign of old Queen Vic - a kind of puppet-theatre for the ears.

From Radio 3:

As part of BBC Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, Ian MacMillan's weekly programme dedicated to poetry and the spoken word explores the literary life of the 19th century, from its grand visions and Romanticism to its more curious and eccentric writers. Novelist and The Verb regular Toby Litt talks about some of the lesser-known poet laureates of the period, including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth and the unfortunate Alfred Austin, Tennyson's much-mocked successor, whom Robert Browning dismissed as the 'Banjo Byron'. Ergo Phizmiz presents some 'pointballing', his series of eclectic experiments in sound and language, this time with a Victorian flavour and in the spirit of the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. And novelist Gregory Norminton, author of Serious Things, reads The Chronic Omnibus, his new Wellsian tale of how the Victorians saw the future.

And exclusive to this blog in mp3, a sneak preview "behind-the-scenes" of the production of Pointballing, featuring recordings from the foley session joined by The Travelling Mongoose.

The Verb is on at 9.30pm (UK time) on BBC Radio 3, and the show will be available for one week afterwards in BBC iPlayer.

Pointballing - On "The Verb", BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3's 'cabaret of spoken-word' The Verb will be presenting the first of a new Ergo Phizmiz project called "Pointballing", tomorrow night, Friday 27th March.

Pointballing is the first of what will be a number of short pieces of playful, nonsensical radio-art, with spoken-word, original music and sound-effects, written, performed and produced by Ergo Phizmiz.

Tune in ... 90-93 FM, on digital, or online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

The programme, which also features Graham Swift and Tomas Venclova, goes out 27/03/09, and will be available through the BBC's "Listen Again" service for one week after broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/theverb