One of the Vulture's favourite podcasts, Slam Idol, has scored a bit of a coup this week. Simon Toon's poetry show, which plays off performance poets against each other in a fortnightly contest, has managed to scoop an interview with Stephen Fry.
Fry is currently plugging his new 'how-to' guide to poetry, The Ode Less Travelled, in which he launches a scathing attack on the "arse dribble" of modern poets and calls for a return to traditional form and metre.
The interview will be podcast from tomorrow, when Fry's book is launched, but you can get a flavour of the usual Slam Idol menu of poetry performances and poetry-related chat here, including Toon enthusing about Fry's upcoming chat.
As Toon says, excitedly, "how cool is that!"
