Poetry To Your Ears Podcast
1) 35 - Roy McFarlane
Tune in to hear us chat about the legacy of slavery, erasure poems, Roy’s role as Birmingham’s poet laureate, Canal poet ambassador and Brighton Book Festival’s poet-in-residence, & more.Watch this ep...Show More
2) 34 - Elizabeth M Castillo
'Not Quite an Ocean' by Elizabeth M. Castillo is a paean to the feminine, to motherhood and to the natural world. At once these poems are both unabashed in their celebration of womanhood, and are sear...Show More
3) 33 - Kathryn Millington
In this stunning pamphlet of quietly moving and poignant poems, Kathryn Millington guides her reader through the grief that comes as a result of involuntary childlessness, an issue which can affect up...Show More
4) 32 - Joelle Taylor
“The female body is a political space.”At Brighton Fringe’s event of Queer The Mic, we sat down in a dark den and talked to Joelle about performing Blue Now, from the film by Derek Jarman, with Russel...Show More
5) 31 - Reanna Valentine
Listen to this episode if you’re interested in learning about how poetry can help cope with grief, Reanna’s relationship with their nan, the influence that Carolyn has had in Reanna becoming a poet, s...Show More
6) 30 - Lyra Festival ft Hollie McNish, Michael Pederson, Malaika Kegode & Kat Lyons
In this episode, we reflect on Bristol city poets, the Bristol City of Words exhibition and talk to Michael Pederson, author of Boy Friends (Faber), Hollie McNish, Sunday Times bestseller and author o...Show More
30 - Lyra Festival ft Hollie McNish, Michael Pederson, Malaika Kegode & Kat Lyons
32:57 | May 17th, 2023
7) 29 - Séamus Fox
Listen to this episode if you’re interested in Séamus’ personal journey towards sobriety and the role that writing played in it, the British cultural relationship with alcohol, the process of becoming...Show More
8) 28 - Rebecca Faulkner
Permit Me to Write My Own Ending is a collection spanning generations and timescapes - from gritty, defiant explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the ...Show More
9) 27 - Devjani Bodepudi
We talked about balancing the duality of Devjani’s South Asian heritage with growing up in the UK, her grandmother’s experience as an Indian immigrant, increasing the diversity of the literary canon i...Show More
10) 26 - Verve Poetry Festival
Loulou & Tom went to the Verve Poetry Festival edition 2023 in Birmingham, a festival of poetry and spoken word. This episode is also a video on Youtube, check it out here.We interviewed:Andrew McMill...Show More