In this episode I talk to Harry Josephine Giles – a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith – about having fun with words, and why her favourite board game used to be Pandemic.
And my poetry-sceptic/expert is Halina, a podcast producer who works with various community projects in Glasgow including Dardishi and We Are Here Scotland, about Harry Josephine's poem 'Bloom' – from their collection The Games (Outspoken, 2018).
When Halina was at school she found poetry "stuffy and intimidating", partly because of the fear of feeling "stupid" for getting the meaning of a poem wrong. Despite this, Halina is fearless when interpreting this explosive poem, describing it as "a real eye-opener"!
Read the poem in full here: https://time41poem.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/you-dont-want-to-feel-stupid/
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CREDITS
Producer/host: Annie Muir ~ @time41poem
Editor: Jack Rientoul ~ @jackrientoul
Music: JANSKY ~ @radiojansky
Artwork: Max Machen ~ @maxymachen
This podcast was made using funding from the National Lottery, through Creative Scotland.
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More about Harry Josephine: https://harryjosephine.com/
More about Halina: https://www.halinarifai.com/
