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Why Poetry?
by VerseFirst Productions
VerseFirst’s Flagship Podcast. Why Poetry? dedicated itself to exploring questions of poetics, the socio-politics of poetry, how poems end up in the forms and places they do.
Interview lead audio essays, hosted and produced by ThinkWriteFly featuring a growing selection of the most vibrant and talented voices in UK poetry, Criticism and Academia.
Episodes
Ep. 13. Poetry Film (Audio Version)
50m · PublishedDiscussing 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
40m · PublishedIn 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
1h 3m · PublishedEp 10: Verve poetry Festival part 2
48m · PublishedWere 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
43m · PublishedThis 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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Ep 8: Verve Poetry Festival Throwback
47m · PublishedIn episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendor that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre Birmingham in February.
Featuring discussion with Cynthia Miller and Anthony Anaxagorou alongside poetry from Inua Ellams RAP Party poets: Jess May Davies, Casey Bailey, Aliyah Hasina & Sean Colletti.
If you like the Pod, please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/VerseFirstPoetry
Ep 7: Poets Against Racism (Poetry of Protest Pt.3)
36m · PublishedWe went to Wolverhampton Literary Festival to record with Poets Against Racism, a grassroots artivist group using spoken word to challenge divisive dialogues of white supremacy and encourage progressive discussions about race.
Proudly anti-racist, anti-fascist and channelling the UK protest art movements born in the melting pots of British inner cities. we sat down with the founder of the movement Manjit Sahota, leader of their Nottingham chapter as he brings the word to the Midlands.
featuring some fantastic poets from open micers to OG published Professionals, sharing their work on race and laying claim to the dialogue at a time where inclusion, solidarity and equality are in need of amplification.
Ep 6: Grim Chip and The Picket Line Poets (Poetry Of Protest Pt. 2)
39m · PublishedEp 5: The Bad Boy Poet ( The Self In Verse Pt. 2)
46m · PublishedThis episode we continue the exploration of confessional verse in a Sit down with Scott Manley Hadley 'The bad boy poet' talking Masculinity, love, Pierce Brosnan, Pooping, the Perils of being emotionally vulnerable in a world that demands transparency yet punishes weakness, and dogs.
Ep 4: Poetry As Psychogeography
38m · PublishedThis month we sit down with Dr Angela France and talk poets as Psychogeographers, the Act of capturing the 'Truth' of a place with methods dreamt up by angry Frenchmen in 1968, But used liberally as a tool of poetics ever since. We figure out what it is to capture a place in a poem and talk about the process and development of Angela's Psychogeographic collection 'The Hill'.
Why Poetry? has 13 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 18:47:29. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on December 11th, 2022 20:22.