In the first part of this episode I talk to Gboyega Odubanjo – a British-Nigerian poet born and raised in East London, whose third pamphlet Aunty Uncle Poems came out in 2021 with The Poetry Business – about how he got into poetry (after giving up on becoming a footballer).
And in the second part I talk to Chris, a photographer from Australia and co-runner of Gulabi – an independent film lab in the Southside of Glasgow, about Gboyega's poem 'Dagenham Runner's Club'.
Although Chris spent a lot of his teens writing "angsty poetry", since then he's "read a few bits and bobs here and there, but [hasn't] really engaged with it a lot". He puts this down to there being "too many [poems] – you don't know where to start." So I started him off with this one, which he managed to relate to a lot about his own life experiences, despite never having seen the film Running Man!
Read the poem in full here: https://time41poem.wordpress.com/2021/12/15/you-dont-know-where-to-start/
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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 Gboyega: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/aunty-uncle-poems-by-gboyega-odubanjo
More about Gulabi: https://www.gulabi.co.uk/
