Paul Muldoon in conversation with PJ Harvey 

I'd love to just sit and have a conversation with her. She's so uniquely amazing!

Mrs Harvey has forged one of the most fascinating, challenging, and exquisite musical/artistic arcs in the past 25 years or so. Perhaps The most exquisite. It is all quite marvelous and wondrous and a gift to us all. Many if not most rock artists and bands who are still performing 25 plus years after "making it" are still performing their hits on the nostalgia circuit. There is nothing wrong with that by the way. Mrs Harvey however has continued to grow as an artist. Always and ever moving forward into new directions. And she is still as beautiful, lovely, and sexy as ever. More so than ever in fact

So much energy and talent condensed into that sweet, little beautiful lady who when she roars, she ROARS.

I have arrived at PJ Harvey quite late in life. There is no doubt she is an immense talent who has made her indelible mark in the music business. But what is even more, she is such a beautiful, gentle, engaging soul. I could listen to her talk & giggle for hours. Despite all of her success, she just seems to remain so grounded and without pretence. Just lovely.

Beautiful creature, that PJ.

God this interview is one of my favorite interviews for any artists

PJ's really an impressive and singular talent. Both as a musician and an artist. Her music's incredible. Lovable personality too.

PJ...a wonderfully spirited Woman!

I truly believe that great songwriters are the new poets, so I don't get her arguments. For me "Let England Shake" is an incredible poem. And the way she reads it gives me chills.

Her Exeter accent is still there ! Adorable.♥️💯

My God! She's so beautiful, sensitive and inteligent!

I was there in the second row, the 1st row were for VIP'S. Well worth trip from Glasgow.

Let England Shake is still the best album of this decade, as of 2019. I love you and your art, PJ.

Fantastic! PJHarvey you are sooooooo wonderful!! ty ty ty

Great interview. Thank you!

This is great, thanks for posting. :)

Thank you for uploading this. Really looking forward to watching it!

Two mighty, interesting artists. Bravo.

Reading Paul Muldoon is a bit like experiencing music in the sense that there is counterpoint - several voices, several meanings at once. It's wonderful, complex fun. This is an interesting meeting of rather different sensibilities. She's lovely and some of her lyrics are quite haunting.

This is truly a moment I am glad to see captured on film...! And did anyone else notice that they began to read their work in a similar manner as the video continued? ;)

Love the reference to the 60s and questioning the role of music in politics. The main difference between the 60s and now is that we, as Bowie suggested, live in a far more pluralistic society where ideas are less black-white but rather an enormous grey ambient. The 60s music was a liberation out of "the guise of a single and created society" (Bowie).

loved.

This is great! The Autobiography poem did get more chilling as it went om in much the same manner as 'The Excitable Boy' sorry I did English at Uni buz it's a long time ago and I was mostly concerned with what writing things down did to the Oral Tradition. So, as yoi would expect I'm.a bit of a philistine with poets names (The War poetry is what I remember most and Robert Burns because ypu really are a Philistine if you don't know that in Scotland...and how many times the daisy has been stolen from the statue's hand lol). I really like running into stuff like this because it always starts me reading poetry again. I think PJ Harvey's lyrics stand up pretty well too!

These two need to listen to Lorena McKennitt, a great artist who set music to old poetry.

There's a really sweet lady in there. Doesn't matter what she's doing, that sweetness shines through. I personally hope she gets out of the poetry oriented stuff and back on the guitar, where she belongs.

I have fallen for Polly and her music quite late on. Since the White Chalk lp. I was, previously, more than a little afraid of her. She seemed to me like some sort of sex-witch. Metamorphosing into a pixie/sprite, more suitable to a goodie in Lord of the Rings than a dark goth uber evil demon destroyer. She is so natural and lacking in any kind of pretrntion or snobbishness, I think she is so talented and genuine. A profoundly great artist. Very rare and precious and valuable. ❤

13:06 I shake my head, Paul. The word is "ironed". Ironed.

very enjoyable conversation with PJ. Tangerine Dream put music to The Smile by William Blake which works rather well I think.

She has such an interesting and intriguing face.

To me that I'm not a native speaker, battery sounded more accurate than drums haha...is nice to hear some poetry reading, learn about different poets and also learn the difference on making lyrics and poems, among other things. Good video.

Richard Buckner’s The Hill is a great example of music put to someone else’s poetry that is amazing. In this case it’s Edgar Lee Masters.

The Sondhiem lyrics she recites are used in A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Fourm. It is the marching song of the centurion. I love that she used Finishing The Hat in her research.

And it's so cool to see people like Paul Muldoon admit he wrote a fan letter.. But of course whyever not? He already mentioned Leonard Cohen and there's the Great Shane McGowan writing wonderful songs/poems...actually I don't know where ballads lie in this as they have a much more 'poetic' feel. I know what they are getting at about why setting poems to music can spoil your view of them, I think it is like a book, and someone makes a film of it. ..it sometimes changes your views on the book, or the characters are not how you picture them? I'm maybe not looking at this from the same angle but that's usually how I feel about this (obviously I'm in good company lol!). I think Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen are about the only others (I'm missing out the Beat gen as William S. Burroughs had this down to a fine art) but I think it is a difficult area. Thanks for this wonderful upload xx Can't believe she finished with Burns I'm obviously not as senile as I thought!

Highly inspired hopelessly smitten the act of creation the joy of cognition permiate from this spell binding sexy woman!

Dave Gahan from dM love her.He love her like a lover.:))))))maybe a new tattoo for him,something for Pj Harvey:))))

Nice camera view angle of the .. Mic stand, I guess ..

Great, but he could let her speak a bit more. Sheesh.

British talks so quietly! Nice! Am in the US at the moment ,most of the peoples are so loud !Why?

Interviewer lecturing.

Be nice if there were some cats on stage. Perhaps if they were each holding cats? Just a suggestion, otherwise a very good video. Just a bit catless, that's all. No biggie. More cats next time.

I disagree about what this guy says about let London shake. It is much better as poetry. The music for it is ok and good, but not as good as the actual lyrics.

26:26 It could still happen now. As long as it doesn't interfere with the interests of The Economy.

This interviewer is awful. That voice he uses and he is speaking all over her and trying to show off his knowledge, and she is just barely tolerating him. But P.J. is transcendent and beautiful as always.

Interesting discussion. Not much of an interview.