Ep. 13. Poetry Film (Audio Version)

Ep. 13. Poetry Film (Audio Version)

Discussing the Growing Form of PoetryFilm with Poet and Academic Lucy English author of the digital project the Book of Hours https://thebookofhours.org/

Ep: 12. Pete Bearder & Stage Invasion: Poetry and the Spoken Word Renaissance

In episode 12 of the Verse First Poetry Podcast. I chat to Pete 'the temp' Bearder about Stage invasion: Poetry and the spoken word renaissance.While his performance and verse experiments are stellar, his videos going viral and his feature slots and workshops packed, Pete has also turned his focus to documenting the academic, technical and esoteric practices of the spoken word.as a fellow traveller in the strange and verbose land that is the fine art of putting words together. it was a pleasure to talk to him!

Ep. 11: Roy McFarlane, Writing from the Margins & The Healing Next Time

ThinkWriteFly sits down with Poet Roy McFarlane, talking about the role of the community poet His latest collection 'the Healing Next Time', What it means to write tragedy, oppression and state violence, and the struggle not to become defined by it & the power of being able to own your story.

Ep 10: Verve poetry Festival part 2

Were Back! with Episode 10, Part 2 of the Verve Poetry Festival. with chats and poems from Momtaza Mehri, Theresa Lola, Sophie Collins, Vani Capildeo and Sumita Chakraborty

Ep 9: Besharam Deep Dive with Nafeesa Hamid

This Episode I sat down with the fantastic Nafeesa Hamid to do a Deep dive on her Collection Besharam and get real about the process of writing poems in sequence, adding 'poet' to your identity, the structure of a collection and the fear of losing/ releasing your poetry to the world.

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