The Poems We Made Along The Way Podcast
1) Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Clare Pollard about breaking your own rules, poems being like haunted houses, and the word poetess.Clare Pollard is a poe...Show More
2) Episode 31: George Szirtes - "Rhymes are accidents waiting to happen"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to George Szirtes about form, translation, and the exact moment that he decided that he wanted to become a poet.George Szirt...Show More
3) Episode 30: Mary Jean Chan - Queering clarity through poetry
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Mary Jean Chan about clarity, truth vs fact in a poem and the drafting process as a form of play.Mary Jean Chan is the au...Show More
4) Episode 29: Erica Hesketh - Participating in forms
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Erica Hesketh about poetic form, the creativity of translation and exploring heritage. Erica Hesketh is a poet and editor...Show More
5) Episode 28: Rishi Dastidar - Advertising the poem with a great title
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Rishi Dastidar about the death of rhetoric, the importance of good titles and the links between poetry and advertising.Ri...Show More
6) Episode 27: Lewis Buxton - Building an audience
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Lewis Buxton about how to be a good performer of poems, writing sonnets and how to build an audience.Lewis Buxton is a wr...Show More
7) Episode 26: Katie Hale - Contending with our ancestors
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Katie Hale about museums, traveling to the Antarctic and the importance of mentoring/being mentored.Katie Hale is a poet,...Show More
8) Episode 25: Luke Kennard - Outrunning your inner critic
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Luke Kennard about the importance of funding small presses, outrunning the inner critic and his obsession with sitcoms. L...Show More
9) Episode 24: Deryn Rees-Jones - Structuring poetry out of fractals
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Deryn Rees-Jones about silence, Posthuman feminism and how place effects the way you write.Deryn Rees-Jones is author of ...Show More
10) Episode 23: Anthony Anaxagorou - Discovering an anticolonial maximalism through poetry
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Anthony Anaxagorou about the myth of inspiration, cinematic writing and maximalism in poetry.Anthony Anaxagorou has writt...Show More