 I'm Hannah Silver and my PhD is titled Black British Poetry in Performance. It's a partnership with Sterling University in Scotland and the British Library. The topic of my PhD is performances that are happening today at events in London that are drawing young, diverse audiences. It feels like it's something very practical and very current and actually what's lacking in the area that I'm working in is the academic side. For the British Library, I'm recording interviews with poets and we're talking about the craft of poetry in performance, about the British poetry scene in general, about their work, about their experience of performing, how they use their voice, how they use their body in performance. It's quite unusual in that they're very long interviews and I think it's also quite unusual for poets to be asked about the craft of their work, the kind of technicalities of performing and that's just helping me find a language with which to talk about poetry in performance. Students who are working here can make it as supportive and sociable as they want. We have organised events where we meet up and talk about the work and I feel like my library and university support are really sympathetic to my project, encouraging and challenging but in quite a relaxed way that fits with how I work. Once I've done all of the interviews that I want to do, we'll launch them online. So it's exciting to know that I'm building a resource that's not just my PhD but it's something that can have quite a big impact in a wider field and having that resource housed by the British Library of course is great as well because it's going to be there for eternity.