Planet Poetry Podcast
1) Season 5 | Finale - with Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny
Send us a text Join your podcast pals at a table at the Beachy Head pub. Enjoying a view of sloping fields down to the Belle Tout Lighthouse and the sea beyond and take a moment to reflect on another...Show More
2) The Way | The Blueprint - with Jo Colley and Charles G Lauder, Jr
Send us a text It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of th...Show More
3) Points | Divergences - with Erica McAlpine
Send us a text What was that? A bat or swallow? Something flitted past, but we can't agree on what we've just seen ... Erica McAlpine reads from Small Pointed Things (just published by Carcanet) that ...Show More
4) Still Life | Still Shining - with Richard Scott
Send us a text Still life? Not as we know it. Trembling with tension and beauty, and roses that cup darkness and secret trauma... Hear Richard Scott share from his extraordinary new collection That Br...Show More
5) Chaos | Coded - with Isabelle Baafi
Send us a text Chaos? We love it! Time to meet Isabelle Baafi and hear about her-hotly anticipated first full collection Chaotic Good just published by Faber. Among other things, it grapples with what...Show More
6) Old Men | Cavalrymen - with Peter Daniels
Send us a text Why should not old men be mad? Hear Peter Daniels, a pioneer of gay men's writing in the UK, brood on the emptiness of boxes, speculate on what those Cavalrymen are up to behind the loc...Show More
7) Crystal | Clarity - with Ellen Cranitch
Send us a text A gleam of love in hard times. Our guest Ellen Cranitch shares poems from her Bloodaxe collection Crystal, a subtle, multifaceted work arising from the discovery that her partner was a...Show More
8) Girls | Snakes
Send us a text Psssssssssst! We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl. She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the respon...Show More
9) Oppression | Optimism - with Tishani Doshi
Send us a textWhat's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi, sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the con...Show More
10) From the Archive: Caleb Parkin
Send us a textA revisit of Robin's interview with Caleb Parkin back in May 2022. Read a description and listen to the full episode here.Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy ...Show More