Although literary theory and literary criticism seem to suggest otherwise, poetry uses a big variation of media besides the paper book. One of these media is the sound carrier. This thesis explores the production and reception of Dutch poetry on sound carriers and uses the case study De zon en de wereld by Arjen Duinker to present a multidisciplinary methodological framework for analysing poetry on sound carriers. When discussing recorded poetry, literary critics pay most attention to non-literary elements and use no fixed values or standards.