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Planet PoetryChaos | Coded - with Isabelle BaafiSend us a textChaos? We love it! Time to meet Isabelle Baafi and hear about her-hotly anticipated first full collection Chaotic Good just published by Faber. Among other things, it grapples with what it means to live a good and authentic life in a world full of challenges and unwanted expectations.Plus Robin and Peter discuss the idea of délire - how language can at times deliriously overflow with meaning and burst the banks of logic. We'll glance again at Lewis Carroll, and reopen renowned UK poetry magazines Magma and The Rialto, and re...2025-04-1751 min
Planet PoetryOld Men | Cavalrymen - with Peter DanielsSend us a textWhy should not old men be mad? Hear Peter Daniels, a pioneer of gay men's writing in the UK, brood on the emptiness of boxes, speculate on what those Cavalrymen are up to behind the locked doors, cope with Quixotic characters and, finally, bathe in the pure light of silent contemplation. All this from Old Men published by Salt in 2024.Plus, we hear a little about Leland Bardwell, a perhaps neglected Irish poet and writer, and Timothy Gallagher, a writer of dramatic monologues. Peter and Robin also report back, hotfoot from...2025-03-281h 02
Planet PoetryCrystal | Clarity - with Ellen CranitchSend us a textA gleam of love in hard times. Our guest Ellen Cranitch shares poems from her Bloodaxe collection Crystal, a subtle, multifaceted work arising from the discovery that her partner was addicted to crystal meth. Expect beauty, flashes of resilience and the deft capture of moments that sustain a relationship through this extreme challenge. Robin and Peter have been rubbernecking at the recent Planetary Parade (we owe it to you dear listener because of our name) and use it as an excuse to open a celestial trove with dramatic lines fr...2025-03-0654 min
Planet PoetryGirls | Snakes - with Ruth PadelSend us a textPsssssssssst! We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl. She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the responsibilities they must accept. She'll take us from Mary at the Annunciation (wearing a Primark T-shirt) to glimpsing a Serpent Queen from the 88 bus. Robin shares her long-held enthusiasm for 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - also by Ruth Padel. And we celebrate Siegfried Baber's spanking new pamphlet The Twice Turned Earth from Poetry Salzburg, discovering a poignant poem about Star War...2025-02-141h 01
Planet PoetryOppression | Optimism - with Tishani DoshiSend us a textWhat's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi, sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the continuing oppression of women, blended with a playful optimism and dazzling ability to weave history, contemporary politics, and vivid imagery. Plus Peter bites the AI bullet. Can Chat GPT be useful for poets? Or is AI the poet's nemesis? Robin emerges with a little colour in her cheeks, having read Bad Kid Catullus the 'filthsmith' Roman poet as re-imagined by innovative small...2025-01-231h 02
Planet PoetryFrom the Archive: Caleb ParkinSend us a textA revisit of Robin's interview with Caleb Parkin back in May 2022. Read a description and listen to the full episode here.Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2025-01-0935 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 486Comic Reviews: DC Batman: Dark Patterns 1 by Dan Watters, Hayden Sherman, Triona Farrell Gotham City Sirens Uncovered 1 Superwoman Special 1 by Joshua Williamson, Edwin Galmon, Laura Braga, Nikola Cizmesija, Rex Lokus Marvel Alien Paradiso 1 by Steve Foxe, Edgar Salazar, Victor Nava, Carlos Lopez, Peter Nguyen Infinity Watch 1 by Derek Landy, Ruairi Coleman, Scott Hanna, Brian Reber, Arick Arciniega Laura Kinney: Wolverine 1 by Erica Schultz, Giada Belviso, Rachelle Rosenberg Petpool Pool Party 1 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo Ultimate Universe: One Year In 1 by Deniz Camp, Jonas Scharf, Mattia Iacono Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man 1 by Christos Gage, Eric Gapstur...2024-12-223h 11
Planet PoetryPonder | Poetry - with Dai GeorgeSend us a textAh-hem. Stop thinking like that. Think like a poet! Dwell in negative capability and write in a way that reflects the sheer messiness of human cognition! That's better isn't it? We meet Dai George and talk about his book How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum 2024) - where Dai creates a new and generous canon of 24 poets from Homer, Sappho, to Frank O'Hara to Audre Lourde - and looks at their lives and preoccupations.Now the festive period is upon us, Robin and Peter are in a whimsical mood. So yo...2024-12-1958 min
Planet PoetrySeasons | Filsket Seas - with Martin MaloneSend us a textStrap on your best boots, and follow Martin Malone as he shoulders through the seasons on the rugged granite of Aberdeenshire's north sea coast, pondering nature, ecology, human resilience and frailty in his collection Gardenstown, from Broken Sleep Books , a beautiful collaboration with artist Bryan Angus. And we'll loiter in an English outfield hoping to catch poems from his Selected Poems 2005-2020, Larksong Static from Hedgehog Press about the First World War and a lonely bar in Manhattan. Meanwhile Robin and Peter continue to answer the questions poetry lovers demand to h...2024-11-2856 min
Planet PoetryCuteness | Weirdness - with Isabel GalleymoreSend us a textAw! You’re squishably cute! Yes you, dear listener. In this episode we meet Isabel Galleymore and hear from her highly original collection Baby Schema, published by Carcanet. Tempted into a big-eyed world of Disneyfied cuteness you’ll find things getting increasingly weird as Isabel examines its distorting relationship with nature, business, human relationships… and more. Plus Robin reports back to us from The Foyle Young Poets of the Year awards and reads the poem Loud by Indy Moon. Peter makes some excuse to read the timeless To Autumn, by John Keats. ...2024-11-071h 00
Planet PoetryAfropessimism | Affirmation - with Danez SmithSend us a textKerpow! The poetry fireworks are back. We spark our fifth season into life with Danez Smith – who shares poems from their astonishing collection Bluff (published by Vintage Penguin 2024), destined to be one of the books of the decade. Danez discusses everything from Afropessimism to the power of water as a metaphor. Plus we hear poems that are conscious and politically-electrified, as well as tender and vulnerable poetry about love and the transformational power of poetry itself. Expect the usual back-to-school bantz from Robin and Peter, plus we dip into the poetry of e...2024-10-171h 06
Planet PoetryVigils | Confabulations - with Robin Houghton & Peter KennySend us a textRrrrrrrip! Yikes! That’s the sound of the Planet Poetry rulebook being wantonly torn in half for our Season 4 finale. For one episode only Robin and Peter abandon their solemn vow and share some of their own poetry from forthcoming Pindrop and Mariscat publications. Then, under the chalky Sussex cliffs, we bask in recollections of another glorious season peppered with wonderful conversations with superb and entertaining guests. We want to thank you dear listener for lending us your ears. Have a glorious summer! We’ll be back with a spankin...2024-07-2547 min
Planet PoetryLost trades | Lost songs - with Jane CommaneSend us a textGrip the square steering wheel of your Austin Allegro and let Jane Commane navigate you through the haunted places of the post-industrial Midlands. She treats us to poems from Assembly Lines published by Bloodaxe including UnWeather, quite possibly the best Brexit response we've heard.We upload this episode on the day of the UK's General Election... So as well as sprinting to the polling stations, we take a moment to delve into the idea of political poetry. Peter reads I Woke Up by Jameson Fitzpatrick a fine example of how the...2024-07-041h 05
Planet PoetryFathers | Frontiers - with Rory WatermanSend us a textHear Rory Waterman describe his experience of being stuck in quarantine in Korea, where (as well as doing press ups) he used his time to begin his fourth collection Come Here to This Gate, from Carcanet Poetry. He tells us about Korea's DMZ, hilarious Lincolnshire folk tales, and we explore an exceptionally moving sequence about the death of his troubled father. Also... Peter belatedly discovers the translation by Martyn Crucefix of Raine Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. Spoiler: it is fantastic. And Robin remembers the hugely creative Ann Perrin who sadly passed last...2024-06-1459 min
Planet PoetryBold Lines | Black Pages - with Seni SeneviratneSend us a textSilent faces and displaced lives. Seni Seneviratne gives voice to overshadowed Black children, exotic pages and servants in the portraits of nobility and the mercantile class in 18th Century paintings. Other of her poised and beautiful poems, from The Go-Away Bird from Peepal Tree Press, are infused with bird imagery, and the migrations of travellers going deeper into themselves. Meanwhile Robin jumps into the world of online poetry magazines, looking at the long-running Ink Sweat & Tears, and one of the newer mags Propel Magazine. And Peter is intrigued by Victoria Kennefick's l...2024-05-2348 min
Planet PoetryAbsence | Accidents - with Ali LewisSend us a textStaring at the mark on the wall where that painting once hung? Wondering why the moon, seen by others, has been hidden from you? You've entered the world of Absence (Cheerio Poetry 2024) by Ali Lewis. He guides us through this exceptional first collection, from the painful ache of lost love, to the possibilities unleashed by running over a pheasant.Robin talks about poetry & walking, via Robert Frost's poem Acquainted with the Night. We also venture into the dark and terrifying beauty of Paul Celan, and read Celan's poem Todesfuge, Death Fugue. And w...2024-05-021h 02
MISPERLast Hurrah (part one)Vivian Clarke. Retired, 85. Missing for just under an hour. --- Jess Moore – Sally Swift Jamie Pink – Will Hackett Peter – Reg Beckley Pilot – Richard Cawte Adam – Les Clarke Coffee Machine – Tim Fearon Ruth & Lauren – Rosie Hodgkinson Robin – Daniel O’Connor Ship Officers – Lindsay Jones & Tim Fearon Man in Pub – Steve McCarthy Nursing Home Assistant – Teresa Milewski Martin – Scott Peter D.C.I. Cutler – Jules Shevlin Station Tannoy – Julia Savill Train Guard – Mark Ward Kenny – Alan Wilkes Other roles performed by members of the cast. Script...2024-04-2839 min
Record PartyRecord Party #272 (27-04-2024)01. Kygo, Ava Max, Tiesto - Whatever (Record Mix)
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Planet PoetryTestaments | Troubles - with Roy McFarlaneSend us a textHop aboard. No time to idle in green pastures here, instead let’s follow Roy Mc Farlane as he guides us through his collection Living by Troubled Waters from Nine Arches Press weaving the toxic legacy of slavery in the complexity and warmheartedness of his own personal history. Plus we glance at a gorgeous poem, Leaves, from Ursula K. Le Guin, mull over the latest winner of the UK’s National Poetry Competition, The Time I Was Mugged in New York City, by Imogen Wade, and stroke our chins over idea of mag...2024-04-111h 06
Planet PoetryRapture | Reality - with Seán HewittSend us a textWe’re back with global ambitions for World Poetry Day. First we skip over to Dublin to interview Seán Hewitt about his gorgeous second collection Rapture’s Road, published 2024 by Cape. Enriched by the traditions of Irish poetry, Seán’s work speaks unflinchingly to contemporary issues as well as conjuring moments of absolute beauty from language. Robin and Peter learn more about International Poetry Day, and Robin discovers a fabulous poem by Netherlands poet Marjolijn van Heemstra. Meanwhile Peter has immersed himself in the pages of Living in Language, Internatio...2024-03-211h 03Planet PoetryArchive - Inua Ellams from March 2021Send us a textA classic interview from the archive: Inua Ellams talking about his extraordinary book The Actual (Penned in the Margins, 2020), a powerful, personal and often very funny collection that pokes a sharp stick at the legacy of British Empire, foolish machismo, hero culture, relationships and much more.Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2024-03-0733 min
Planet PoetrySorrow | Stored - with Paul StephensonSend us a textGo on. Press the button. Paul Stephenson guides us through a choice of his varied, formally diverse and moving elegies in his Carcanet collection Hard Drive -- written in the years following his partner's sudden death -- and find a curiously life-affirming exploration of grief and its aftermath. Robin and Peter also make their way across Europe (simultaneously in both the 21st and the 19th Centuries) in the company of Janet Sutherland whose The Messenger House (Shearsman Books) is a highly-ambitious weaving of history, poetry and travelogue. At the border, we flag...2024-02-0857 min
Planet PoetryDarkness | Discovered - with Tamar YoseloffSend us a textWe are back and delighted to bring you more wonderful poetry in 2024. So let's illuminate the new year with Tamar Yoseloff, whose long engagement with visual art has created a poetry that blazes out against a black backdrop. We’ll hear poems from two Seren collections A Formula for Night her New and Selected poems and The Black Place (2019). Plus we will get a preview of her forthcoming collection Belief Systems from Nine Arches.And we discuss the highly impressive Self-Portrait as Othello Carcanet Poetry (2023) by Jason Allen-Paisant a deserved winner of this...2024-01-181h 01Planet PoetryArchive | Kim Moore from October 2022Send us a textHappy New Year! We're on our festive break, but wanted to share with you another classic interview from the archive. Here's Kim Moore talking about her Forward Prize-winning collection 'All the Men I Never Married' from Seren Books.Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2024-01-0430 min
Planet PoetryCrossings | Christmas - with Jane ClarkeSend us a textPsssst! Here's a moment of reprieve from the festive frenzy... Follow Jane Clarke wobbling on an oak log slick with frost, then she smooths us down a butter path to a place of poetry. Here we revel in the beauty and quiet authority of Jane's collection A Change in the Air shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot prize among others.Peter finds listening to a Christmas carol to be a slippery slope to goblin greengrocers and secretive Christina Rossetti, while Robin rouses the old possum and revisits Journey of the Magi b...2023-12-151h 01
The NovelizersCraig Ferguson, David Pressman, Kenny Stevenson - ID4 Ch. 1 & 2Ch. 1: "The Arrival." Novelized by Steve Agee, narrated by David Pressman.
Ch. 2: "In Which Jeff Goldblum Rides His Bike Like a Boss and Earth Is Invaded by 15-Mile-Wide Space Cookies." Novelized by Liz Lent, narrated by Craig Ferguson.
Interview: Kenny Stevenson
David Pressman is an actor known for Krapopolis, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and appearing in, you guessed it, Independence Day.
Steve Agee is best known for playing John Economos and being the on-set portrayal of King Shark in the DC Extended Universe's The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker. He has...2023-12-0436 min
Planet PoetryBridges | Broken - with Martyn CrucefixSend us a textGo on. We dare you to reach across the gulf to Planet Poetry. This time you'll find Martyn Crucefix, reading poems from his Salt collection Between A Drowning Man. This ambitious, timely work depicts the isolation and polarisation brought about by Brexit, Populism, social media and more. A deep and subtle work that reflects these troubled times, and yearns towards empathy. Then let's delight in a poem from Clare Best’s new book Beyond The Gate and gaze into the mutable future: reporting back from a first encounter with Changing by Richar...2023-11-231h 02Record PartyRecord Party #250 (18-11-2023)01. Glen Horsborough, Nathalie Miranda, Peter Brown - Feel The Music (Record Mix)
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Planet PoetryAloneness | Liberty - with Leontia FlynnSend us a textAll aboard! Planet Poetry is going to rattle you into a Belfast haunted by absence. Here you'll meet Leontia Flynn and discover how the upheavals of Brexit and the pandemic have been echoed by ruptures and aloneness in her own life. Her magnificent response is the spare and intensely-moving collection Taking Liberties from Cape. Meanwhile Peter has been reading I will Not Fold These Maps by the Bidoon (stateless) poet Mona Kareem, whose refreshingly direct style adds a touch of surrealism to reflect the absurdity of not being a citizen of the...2023-11-0250 min
Planet PoetryObservation | Celebration - with Ian McMillanSend us a textHush your vuvuzela! Barnsley's own Ian McMillan lobs the keeper and helps Planet Poetry's fourth season start with a belting win. He treats us to selections from To Fold The Evening Star, New and Selected Poems from Carcanet as well as his smith|doorstop pamphlet, Yes But What Is This? What Exactly? Plus your podcast pals Robin Houghton and Peter Kenny strap on their boots and shin pads, and discuss everything from Spitfires to a Welsh shrine-like display for R. S. Thomas, they dip into books by Denise Levertov, Glynn Maxwell an...2023-10-121h 05Record PartyRecord Party #245 (07-10-2023)01. R3Hab, Inna, Sash! - Rock My Body (Record Mix)
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Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveAnn Cleeves: Raven Black, White Nights & other Shetland mysteries: A BBC Radio Crime Collection by Ann CleevesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691064to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Ann Cleeves: Raven Black, White Nights & other Shetland mysteries: A BBC Radio Crime Collection
Author: Ann Cleeves
Narrator: Marnie Baxter, Steven Robertson, Grant O'rourke, Lesley Hart, Joanna Tope, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Release date: October 5, 2023
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Gripping full-cast BBC dramatisations and riveting readings of four 'Shetland' tales, plus a bonus short story and interview Ann Cleeves is well known for her 'Vera', 'Shetland', and 'Two Rivers' crime series, all of which have been adapted into hit TV shows. She was presented...2023-10-053h 01
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveAnn Cleeves: Raven Black, White Nights & other Shetland mysteries: A BBC Radio Crime Collection by Ann CleevesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ann Cleeves: Raven Black, White Nights & other Shetland mysteries: A BBC Radio Crime Collection Author: Ann Cleeves Narrator: Marnie Baxter, Steven Robertson, Grant O'rourke, Lesley Hart, Joanna Tope, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 1 minute Release date: October 5, 2023 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Gripping full-cast BBC dramatisations and riveting readings of four 'Shetland' tales, plus a bonus short story and interview Ann Cleeves is well known for her 'Vera', 'Shetland', and 'Two Rivers' crime series, all of which have been adapted into hit TV shows. She was...2023-10-0505 minRecord PartyRecord Party #244 (30-09-2023)01. Imanbek, Byor - Belly Dancer (Record Mix)
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11. Dr Kucho!, Gregor Salto, Oliver Heldens...2023-10-0100 minPlanet PoetryArchive | Kathryn Maris in March 2021Send us a textWe revisit the Spring of 2021 and Robin's interview with Kathryn Maris, principally about her collection The House with only and Attic and a Basement (Penguin, 2018). Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2023-09-2825 minPlanet PoetryArchive | Charlotte Gann in January 2021Send us a textAnother absolute sparkler from our trove of first season interviews. Charlotte Gann talks about her exceptional Happenstance Press collections, Noir, and The Girl Who Cried. Back with season four on October 12 2023Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2023-09-1428 minPlanet PoetryArchive | Clare Shaw in November 2020Send us a textAnother gem from the archives to tide you over the long, hot (?) summer of 2023...the brilliant Clare Shaw was our second interviewee on the podcast back in 2020, and here she is talking to Robin about her 2018 Bloodaxe collection Flood.Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2023-08-3119 minPlanet PoetryArchive | Pascale Petit in Oct 2020Send us a textSummertime. Ho, hum. But wait! What's this on your device. Planet Poetry? Robin and Peter have descended into The Vaults to present a conversation first broadcast in October 2020 with the fabulous Pascale Petit. Enjoy!Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee! 2023-08-2430 min
Planet PoetryCulture | Cut-ups - with Richard SkinnerSend us a textFollow us as we slip into le Quartier asiatique through a noirish wordscape, when the flutes in the musique concrète are interrupted by David Bowie, Kate Bush and Genesis… Suddenly you realise you are hearing Richard Skinner sharing poems from his collections Dream Into Play (Poetry Salzburg 2022) and White Noise Machine (Salt 2023). Wait! What’s he doing with those scissors? Oh my God… Is that the future leaking out?Cut to a potting shed of an English garden: a pot of basil, poems plastered on the wall, and a black cat dawdl...2023-07-131h 02
Planet PoetryPlay | Wonder - with Rachel Piercey & Kate WakelingSend us a textPens down, everybody! Now look at me... Today we meet poets Kate Wakeling and Rachel Piercey, editor of Tyger Tyger Magazine, who will share insights about writing poetry for children -- the language, considerations and freedoms. We'll hear Kate read from Cloud Soup and Moon Juice (from the Emma Press) and Rachel read her poems from the Big Amazing Poetry Book (Macmillan) We contrast this with their work in publications for grown-ups, such as Rachel's Disappointing Alice pamphlet from Happenstance, and Kate'sThe Rainbow Faults from Rialto's Bridge Pamphlets series.We p...2023-06-1556 min
Planet PoetryLooking | Relooking - with Greta StoddartSend us a textDid you ever repeat a word so often that its meaning ebbed away? Or look so hard at an object -- say a glass of water -- that it began to hint at unknowable mysteries? No? Then you should join us as we meet Greta Stoddart and hear poetry from her new Bloodaxe collection Fool which will take you to an extraordinary place in your imagination where 'nothing might be what is called for'. Meanwhile Robin and Peter, invigorated by talking to third year creative writing students, reflect on the current co...2023-05-2553 min
Planet PoetryTrust | Betrayal - with Clare BestSend us a textIf you have endured a childhood overshadowed by profound betrayal and abuse, how do you learn to trust again? What kind of bravery must this take? We feature Clare Best reading from her poetry collections, Excisions and Each Other and also discuss her memoir The Missing List - written during the last illness of the father who had abused her as a child – described as ‘an important, essential text in the context of the #MeToo movement’. Plus we enjoy an early glimpse into her poised and beautiful collection Beyond the Gate due later this year...2023-04-2759 min
Planet PoetryBlack Country | Lost Wum - with Liz BerrySend us a textKeep the carriage curtains open as we chug into the post-industrial midlands of The Black Country. We're in the company of Liz Berry as she coins resonant new myths from her midland's dialect word hoard. But next stop is Liverpool, following orphaned Eliza The Home Child as she sets off for Nova Scotia in Berry's heartbreaking, just-published novel in verse about a girl sent to work as an indentured servant. Peter and Robin also report back on the winning poems they heard at the awards ceremony for the UK's National Poetry Com...2023-04-0659 min
Dear Multi-hyphenate#84 - Derek McLane & Eila Mell: Designing BroadwayTony and Emmy Winning Production Designer Derek McLane and Eila Mell have come together to create the new hit book Designing Broadway, available wherever books are sold! This episode is incredible for all artists – especially theatre designers who are beginning to explore their multi-hyphenate identities.
Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites us into the immersive and exhilarating experience of building the striking visual worlds that have brought so many of our favorite stories to life. Discover how designers generate innovative ideas, research period and place, solve staging challenges, and collaborate with directors, pro...2023-03-281h 01
Planet PoetryPacing | Preserving - with Robert HambergerSend us a textStrap on your toughest boots. Now dodge the speeding cars as we match strides with Robert Hamberger. We discuss two works: his exceptional poetry collection Blue Wallpaper and his memoir A Length of Road -- recalling a time when Robert (facing a life crisis) retraced the footsteps of the 'peasant poet' John Clare who had, in 1841, escaped an asylum in Epping Forest. Robert walked the same 80 miles as John Clare, who had walked to Northamptonshire in the vain hope of finding Mary, his first love. And Robin has been enjoying Ian Duh...2023-03-1658 min
Planet PoetryAsterisks | Alternatives - with Mark FiddesSend us a textStop polishing that halo for a moment and listen to this! It's Mark Fiddes reading from his Live Cannon collection *Other Saints Are Available - a series of vivid and memorable footnotes to an increasingly polarised world... All via men roaring into flame from the neck up, the haircuts of Burnley defenders, brash parakeets and much more.And what do you do, as a poetry lover, when you just can't face reading another poem? Read something about poetry of course. Peter barges through Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry essays b...2023-02-2354 min
Planet PoetryAirborne | Afterwardness - with Mimi KhalvatiSend us a textHop aboard! And join your Planet Poetry pals as we bravely embark on a new year. Strap in beside a child of six -- flying away from her family, culture and language -- to arrive, wordlessly, in a new country and a new life. Mimi Khalvati shares poems from her exquisite Carcanet collection Afterwardness and relives the journey that utterly changed the course of her life.Robin and Peter also discuss the T.S.Eliot Prize winner Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph, published by Bloomsbury Poetry and rediscover the magnificent fabe...2023-01-191h 00
Planet PoetryForeign | Belonging - with Matthew StewartSend us a textWhat's that? The airy caper of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and their mates? No it's Planet Poetry bringing you Matthew Stewart, who - by some uncanny podcast magic - is sheltering from the sweltering heat of the Spanish sun. His collection The Knives of Villalejo provides clues to what could have coaxed a poet from the cul-de-sacs of suburban Surrey to the vineyards of Extremadura.Amid the festive banter, you'll find your podcast pals discussing a Writer's Advent Calendar from Jo Bell and seasonal favourites Snow by Louis McNeice and [little tree] b...2022-12-1553 min