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Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 32This episode features an interview with Phoebe Nicholson, poet and founder of Oxford Poetry Library. The prompt for the episode was 'house' and it includes poems by Theophilus Kwek, Pat Winslow, Dinah Livingstone, Iain Strachan, Heather Moulson, Trisha Broomfield, Richard Price, Beth Davyson, Lucy Ingrams, Lizzie Ballagher, Beck Reynolds, Lesley Sanders and Sean Burke. Please go to poetryworthhearing.biz for texts of poems and more information about poets and their work.2025-04-281h 02Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 31In this episode, you can hear Tony Curtis, the distinguished Welsh poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at South Wales University, talking about his life in poetry and his new book, Leaving the Hills. The prompt for this episode was 'moving' which could be interpreted as anything from some kind of physical movement to the power of emotions. There are poems from Maggie Hall, Richard Lister, Dinah Livingstone, Fiona Perry, Heather Moulson, Helen Overell, Kate Young, Michael Klimeš, Adam Shaw and Lizzie Ballagher. Details about poets and their publications and texts of unpublished poems at p...2025-03-2859 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 30This episode had the prompt 'rule making and/or rule breaking'.It includes an interview with pot and playwright,Jack Nicholls, who also gives a short reading from his work. Claire Cox explains the process behind her sonnet sequence which appeared in The Long Poem Magazine, Issue 32 and reads some of the poems. Other poets include Helen Hall, Sean Burke, Anne Bailey, Philippa Ramsden, Derek Sellen, Claire Parker and Trish Broomfield2025-02-271h 02Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 29This episode explores the relationship between poetry and music. Malcolm Atkins talks about setting text to music and includes performances of Blake, Hopkins and contemporary poets. He finishes with Lament for Gaza, put together by the Confluence Collective. We have an extract from Sarah Acton's long poem, Book of the Exe, accompanied by musician, Emma Welton. Diana Sanders curates a selection of poems, music and soundscape from 'I Am Nature'. In addition, there are poems which are not accompanied by music but which are, in different ways, concerned with music. More information can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz and...2025-01-231h 11Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 28This episode had as its theme 'losing and / or finding'.It includes a poem from David Constantine about losing and finding, as well as apiece from Caroline Maldonado talking about her book, Mirror and Stone , in which, with the artist, Garry Lennard, she 'finds' Michelangelo. There are also poems from Eugene O'Hare, Kate Young, Lizzie Ballagher, Joseph Long, Claire Parker, Eva Wal, Elizabeth Barton, Helen Overell, Rebecca Wheatley, Fokkina McDonnell, Nicholas McGaughey, Jenny Hockey, Jane Newberry and Trisha Broomfield.2024-12-0359 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 27This episode has the theme 'canonical' and features an interview with the founder of Live Canon and poems by John Greening, Laura Varnam, Matt Bryden, Beck Reynolds, Margot Myers, Nick Grundy, Rosie Jackson and Inge Milfull. Information on poets and publications and texts of unpublished poems at poetryworthhearing.biz2024-10-241h 05Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 26This episode features the Northern Ireland poet, Matthew Rice, who talks about his poetic journey and reads from his work. The theme for this episode was 'inside / outside' and it includes poems by Alison Jones, John White, Helen Overell, Clare Starling, Pat Winslow, Jane Thomas, Susan Thomas, Guy Jones, Polly Walshe, Maureen Jivani, Julia Webb, John Daniel, Diana Bell, Lizzie Ballagher, Stephen Claughton and Lucy Ingrams.
You can find more information, texts of poems and poet biographies as well as details of the next episode and how to submit at poetryworthhearing.biz. Comments and submissions to poetryworthhearing...2024-09-2655 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 25This episode is an election special, and has for its theme, 'political', however our poets have wished to interpret that. There are poems on war, displacement of people, oppression, violence against women, inequality and injustice, commodification and capital and the environment
There are poems from Jenny Lewis, Rachael Clyne, Claire Cox, Pat Winslow, Jacob Mckibbin, Carl Tomlinson, Heather Moulson, Richard Price, Diana Bell, Caroline Jackson Houlston and Sarah Watkinson. In addition, there is an interview with poet, historian and peace campaigner, Rip Bulkeley who talks about politics in his own poetry and in the two political anthologies...2024-06-281h 02Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 24The theme for this episode was 'other'. It features the poet and artist, Jane Burn, who identifies as working class, pansexual,autistic and living off grid, talking about her life, writers who have influenced her and also reading some of her own poems.
As well, there are poems by Lucy Ingrams, Richard Lister, Sarah J Bryson, Lizzie Ballagher, Kate Young, Carmel McKeown, Slava Konoval, Siobhan Ward, Heather Shakespeare, Trish Broomfield and Heather Moulson
2024-05-2952 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 23This episode, which has the theme of 'struggle', features an interview with Palestinian poet, Ruba Abughaida, who reads some of her own work and some poems by poets she admires. In addition, there are poems by Lizzie Ballagher, Fiona Perry, Guy Jones, Alison Jones, Elizabeth Barton, Sarah J Bryson, Helen Overell and Kate Young. The episode concludes with Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reading a short selection of poems from his new collection, Identified Flying Objects. Further details about poets and texts can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz.2024-04-271h 04Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 22Features a fascinating talk by Cahal Dallat on Yeats in London as well as some of Cahal's own poems. There is also a range of poems on the theme of 'after' from Lyn Thornton, Helen Overell, Matt Bryden, Trisha Broomfield, Stephen Paul Wren, Diana Bell, Heather Moulson, Simon Rees and Dinah Livingstone.2024-03-2852 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 21This episode features a short interview with Alex Mazey, followed by poems on the theme of 'creature' from Lizzie Ballagher, Pat Winslow, Fiona Perry, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Eva Wal, Deborah Cox, Stephen P Wren, Caroline Jackson-Houlston and Corinna Board. we also have some advice from Richard Lister on reading poetry aloud. Further details about poets and texts of unpublished poems can be found on poetryworthhearing.biz. Comments or submissions should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com2024-02-2455 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 20The episode has an overarching theme of ’now’ and the featured poet is Richard Price, who talks about poetry, poetic influences and reads from his own work as well as versions of poets he cares for. Other poets include Jane Burn, Tony Curtis, Helen Overell, Diana Bell, Richard Lister, Lynne Wycherley, Trish Broomfield, Steve Xerri and Dinah Livingstone.I hope you like it and please share.
More information about poets and texts of previously unpublished poems on poetryworthhearing.biz 2024-01-2049 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 21In this twentieth episode, the theme has been 'now'. The featured poet is Richard Price, who talks about poetry generally, about his own poetic influences and reads from his own work. Other poets include Jane Burn, Tony Curtis, Helen Overell, Diana Bell, Richard Lister,Lynne Wycherley, Trisha Broomfield, Steve Xerri and Dinah Livingstone. Texts of poems and more information can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz 2024-01-2049 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 19This episode has a theme of winter and opens with an extended reading from Jack Cooper, Gregory Award winning poet. He is followed by poems from Eva Wal, Inge Milfull, Stephen Paul Wren, Helen Overell, Dorothy Yamamoto, Elizabeth Barton, Carl Tomlinson and Fiona Perry.The episode ends with an interview from Kate Noakes and a reading by her form her new book, Goldhawk Road.
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To submit to Poetry Worth Hearing , send a recording of up to 4 minutes of unpublished poems with their...2023-12-011h 03Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 18This episode focuses on ill-being and well-being. It includes a reading from American poet and playwright, Dan O'Brien, poems and an interview with Sue Wallace-Shaddad as well as further poems from Anne-Marie Daly, Stephen Paul Wren, Rodger Holden, Geraldine Clarkson, Sarah J Bryson, Deborah Cox, Roddy Maude Roxby, Math Jones, Benedicta Norell, Helen Overell, Lou Hough, Dinah Livingstone and Caroline Jackson-Houlston. Information about the poets, their publications and texts of new poems can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz 2023-10-2659 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 17This episode focuses on conflicts of identity and features a reading from Rachael Clyne followed by an interview with her. There is also a reading by Simon Maddrell and an extract from a long poem by Adnan al-Sayegh, read by him in Arabic and in English by Jenny Lewis. In addition, you will find poems by Fiona Perry, P.Sriven Srilakshmi, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Margot Myers, Deborah Cox, Trisha Broomfield, Tom McColl, Martin Jago, Jane Thomas, Helen Overell, Richard Lister and Pat Winslow.2023-10-091h 11Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing Episode 16This episode includes an interview with Vanessa Lampert and a short reading from her new collection, Say It With Me, published this year by Seren. We also have poems by Tristram Fane Saunders, Jude Marr, Diana Sanders, Bill Jenkinson, Deborah Cox Walker, Dorothy Yamamoto, Sylvia Vetta, Sarianne Durie, Trish Broomfield and Heather Moulson.2023-06-2057 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 15This episode focuses on the long poem. It features extracts from long poems by Michael Daniels, Suzannah Houston, Giles Goodland and Jenny Lewis as well as an interview with Linda Black, editor of Long Poem Magazine. More information about the poems and poets can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz2023-05-291h 04Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 14Welcome to Episode 14 of Poetry Worth Hearing. This episode features poems about work. Most of us, poets included, spend most of our lives doing some kind of work for money. Usually, it is quite unrelated to poetry. However, surprisingly few poems are written about the work people do, what might be called 'the day job'. Here, we have an interview and reading from poet and vet, Ilse Pedler. She talks about how her two vocations work together and gives us a reading of some of her poems directly relating to her veterinary practice. We then have a huge range...2023-04-291h 10Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 13This episode focuses on the choices poets make about form. There is an interview with Mimi Khalvati, poet, founder of The Poets School and poetic mentor, where she talks about her career in poetry and her own ideas about form. In an extract from a reading, Claire Cox, prize-winning poet and editor of ignitionpress reads from her work and comments on form. In addition, a range of poets writing in a range of different forms each reads a poem and comments on its form. There is also a cameo appearance by Stephen Paul Wren talking about chemical structures and...2023-03-301h 13Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 12This episode includes a reading by Chaucer Cameron from her book, In an Ideal World I'd Not be Murdered, new poems from Eva Wal, Jo Roach, Nora Hughes, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Trish Broomfield and an interview with poet-scientist, Stephen Paul Wren. You can find more information about poets and publications at poetryworthhearing.biz. Submissions, comments or suggestions should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com.2023-03-0650 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 11In this episode you will hear Jessica Mookherjee reading from two recent collections and Martyn Crucefix talking about poetry he thinks worth reading. We also have new poems from Beth Davyson, Stephen Paul Wren, Pat Winslow, Suzannah Houston and Chris Beckett. To learn more about the poets and the publications mentioned as well as to see the texts of new poems, go to https://www.poetryworthhearing.biz.2023-01-2658 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 10In this episode you can hear an extended reading by Tristram Fane Saunders, an interview with Jenny Lewis and poems by Beth Davyson, Martyn Crucefix, Lucy Ingrams, Damon Young, Diana Bell and Trisha Broomfield.
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Submissions (4 minute recording + texts + bio) should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com2022-12-0859 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 9This episode includes four poets reading from their recently published books. They are Jules Whiting, Rachel Piercey, Elizabeth Barton and Jennifer A. McGowan. There are also new poems from Jane Thomas, Trisha Broomfield, Steve Xerri, Christopher Horton and Heather Moulson.
Information about the poets and their publications as well as texts of the new poems can be found on poetryworthhearing.biz.
If you would like to contribute to Poetry Worth Hearing please send up to 4 minutes of unpublished poems with the texts and a short bio to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com 2022-10-2759 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 8This eighth episode of Poetry Worth Hearing features an extended interview with the poet Dinah Livingstone, where she talks about her work and reads from her poems. In addition, there is a short open section with poems by Andrew Dixon. Lizzie Ballagher, Stephen Paul Wren and Alice Willington.2022-09-2948 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode 7This episode features an interview with Claire Cox, development officer at Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. She talks about the work of the Centre and of ignitionpress, the Centre's imprint. This is followed by sample poems from four ignition poets and the episode closes with an extract from a reading by Fathima Zahra from her ignition pamphlet, Sargam/Swargam. In addition, there are new poems from Dinah Livingstone, Richard Lister, Lizzie Ballagher, Vanessa Lampert and Mervyn Linford. More information and texts of poems can be found on poetryworthhearing.biz. Comments and submissions to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com.2022-07-311h 02
Poetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing: Episode SixIn this episode you can hear Giles Goodland, poet, teacher and lexicographer, talking about the poetry (mostly modernist) he enjoys and why. W N Herbert reads from The Kindly Interrogator, his translations off the Iranian poet Alireza Abiz, and from his own most recent collection, The Wreck of the Fathership. In addition, we have poems from Sarah J Bryson, Trisha Broomfield, Inge Milfull, Hanne Busck-Nielsen and Sarah James.2022-06-291h 04Poetry worth hearingEpisode FiveThis episode of Poetry Worth Hearing has two parts. The first half is devoted to the conflict in Ukraine, with poets discussing whether or how they can write about the war and then a selection of poems which have been written. Part Two is general with new poems from Brighid Schroer, Carl Tomlinson, Sue Johns, David Cooke and Meg Barton. We finish with a short reading by Alan Buckley who has recorded for us some of the poems he read at a Zoom open mic event in March and which are taken from his collection, Touched.
Texts o...2022-05-281h 03Poetry worth hearingEpisode FourThis is the fourth Episode of Poetry Worth Hearing. An important theme this month is the notion of collaboration and cooperation, between poets and between poets and artists from other disciplines. We have a project curated by Diana Sanders which brings together several poets, musicians and sound artists to present poems own soundscapes. Romola Parish and Sarah Watkinson read a shared poem which is part of the pamphlet they wrote together celebrating Wytham Woods, the Oxford University ecology research station. Viola Michely and Bill Jenkinson share with us the process of translating a poem from German into English. We al...2022-04-191h 00Poetry worth hearingEpisode 3Welcome to Episode 3 of Poetry Worth Hearing. In this episode Sarah Watkinson talks about science poetry and writing about Nature and we have an extract from a Zoom reading by Robert Etty. We also have poems by Sarah Watkinson, Andrew Dixon, Sharron Green, Margot Myers, Claire Cox, Eva Wal, Diana Bell, Suzannah Houston and Lyn Thornton.
Submissions to Poetry Worth Hearing are always welcome and should be sent as 4 minute recordings with texts of poems and brief biographical details to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com. The texts of these poems, information about the poets and science poetry recommendations can b...2022-03-1755 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing Episode 2In this episode you can hear A.B.Jackson reading from his new book, The Voyage of St Brendan (Bloodaxe Books), listen to an interview with Louise Larchbourne where she talks about her mother, the poet, Rosamund Stanhope. in addition, you can hear exciting new work from a wide range of poets, including a longer poem by Lucy Ingrams. Submissions welcome for future episodes. Send your 4 minute recordings to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com. For more information go to PoetryWorth Hearing.biz2022-02-1456 minPoetry worth hearingPoetry Worth Hearing Episode 1Here is the first episode of the monthly poetry podcast magazine, Poetry Worth Hearing, including poets reading their own work, extracts from Zoom readings by David Cooke and Lynne Wycherley as well as an interview with Pat Winslow of poetry she thinks worth reading.
Texts of the poems, details of the authors and their publications as well as information on how to submit can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz. Submissions should be sent to me, Kathleen McPhilemy, poetryworthhearing@gmail.com.2022-01-0659 minPoetry worth hearingTaster episodeThis a sample of poems which will appear in Episode 1 of Poetry Worth Hearing in January. It features poems by Lucy Ingrams, Pat Winslow, Richard Lister, Eva Wal, Jane Thomas, Vanessa Lampert and Carl Tomlinson. It is hosted by Kathleen McPhilemy with music by Alex Heane.2021-10-0710 minPoetry worth hearingTrailer for Poetry Worth HearingThis is a trailer for the forthcoming audio poetry magazine Poetry Worth Hearing. A taster episode which will sample episode 1 will be issued in the next two weeks. Submissions for Poetry Worth Hearing are very welcome and should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com. More detailed information is available from the `Poetry Worth Hearing site https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/120776977/posts/3543893573. 2021-10-0200 min