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Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar

By Arji Manuelpillai

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar is a place where we pickle the poems you'll love. Each week we invite a published poet into the studio to share a poem they love. We dismantle and dissect it, we open it up so you the listener can see it in a completely new way. This podcast is for newcomers and professionals, for teachers, young people and for everyone in between.
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Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 8 - Abi Palmer

Arji's Poetry Pickle JarJan 19, 2021

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Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Victoria Kennefick

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Victoria Kennefick

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Happy to be back here to present another special speaking with the wonderful Victoria Kennefick 


Victoria grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry,


Today she talks about her new book 'Egg/Shell' and reads her favourite poem from it.

Feb 22, 202420:32
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Kwame Dawes.

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Kwame Dawes.

I am so massively excited to bring Kwame Dawes into the Pickle Jar.


He is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared.  He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program.  He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

Often called 'the busiest man in literature', Today he joins us to talk about his new book Sturge Town.


This episode is brought to you with Poetry Book Society.


The Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry book club, founded by TS Eliot to share the joy of poetry. Every quarter their expert poet-selectors choose the very best new poetry books to deliver to members across the globe, alongside a lively quarterly poetry magazine. Annual Poetry Book Society Membership is the perfect way to keep up to date with all the latest poetry releases, discover new voices and inspirational world-class poetry. Join the Poetry Book Society today

Oct 19, 202325:41
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - a conversation with Daljit Nagra
Sep 05, 202322:46
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 40 - Rachel Long

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 40 - Rachel Long

What a pleasure it is to be here for the 40th Birthday. This week we have the brilliant Rachel Long. She is the author of My Darling from the Lions (Tin House, 2021; first published by Picador, 2020), a TIME Best Book of the Year also shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Long is the leader of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour.


Today she talks about a poem by Maggie Milner from her book called couplets.


You going to love this....

Aug 08, 202317:36
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 39 - Sarah Fletcher

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 39 - Sarah Fletcher


an American-British writer. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The White Review, and other publications. Today she speaks about a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt. It's old skool and super fun!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45589/they-flee-from-me



Jul 25, 202317:34
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep.38 - Emily Berry

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep.38 - Emily Berry

I'm over the moon to have Emily Berry in the Pickle Jar. She is a poet, writer and editor living in London. She is the author of three books of poems published by Faber & Faber, Dear Boy (2013), Stranger, Baby (2017) and Unexhausted Time (2022), and a co-writer of The Breakfast Bible, a compendium of breakfasts.

Today we pickle a poem by Fran Lock called Melpomene. You can read it here - https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/melpomene/


enjoy your meal!


Jul 11, 202320:24
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 37 - Jacqueline Saphra
Jun 28, 202317:52
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 36 - Joe Carrick Varty
Jun 13, 202317:13
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 35 - Emma Jeremy

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 35 - Emma Jeremy

Emma Jeremy is the author of Safety Behaviour (Smith|Doorstop, 2019) and a former winner of the New Poets Prize. Her poems have featured in publications such as Poetry London, Poetry Review and Magma. sad thing angry is her debut collection.

Today she brings in a firecracker of a poem by Katie O'Pray called 'in the dream'.
May 30, 202317:16
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 34 - Dean Atta

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 34 - Dean Atta

Such a pleasure to invite educator, novelist and poet Dean Atta into the studio. He's had his second collection out with Nine Arches called There is (still) love here, he is a hugely successful Young Adults novelist with books including The Black Flamingo and Only on the Weekends. He is also a fantastic educator teaching young people across the country. 

This is a wonderful resource for schools teachers as Dean brings in a poem called Acknowledgements by Keith Jarrett.

You going to love it!

May 16, 202317:29
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 33 - Meryl Pugh
May 02, 202317:04
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 32 - Will Harris

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 32 - Will Harris

In this episode we are joined by the brilliant Will Harris. Will's debut poetry book RENDANG (2020) was a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book of poems, Brother Poem, is published by Granta in the UK and by Wesleyan in the US in March 2023. It was the PBS Spring Selection.

Today he brings in a poem by Inger Christensen called Light. It is translated by Susanna Nied.
Apr 18, 202318:01
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 31 - Liz Berry

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 31 - Liz Berry

Welcome to another series of Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar. Today we are joined by a wonderful woman and poet named Liz Berry. Her first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Liz's pamphlet The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and the title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her new book The Home Child is just out and is GREAT.


Today she discusses one hell of a poem by James Wright. Here's the poem if you fancy a look - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46481/a-blessing



Apr 04, 202316:25
Pickle Jar Special - Improvised Explosive Device
Nov 09, 202222:49
Pickle Jar Special - Wayne Holloway-Smith's Living room Series

Pickle Jar Special - Wayne Holloway-Smith's Living room Series

A special today recorded live at Wayne Holloway-Smith's house. Three wonderful poets share new work many of which have never been heard before! Presenting the brilliant Will Harris, known for his brilliant book Rendang. Also, the great Richard Scott who's published with Faber his book Soho was a game changer. And finally, Lucy Mercer whose debut book Emblem is something to behold. All of these great poets here to entertain you for 15 brilliant minutes.

Will Harris - https://willjharris.com/poems

Richard Scott - http://richardscott.info/poetry.html

Lucy Mercer - https://lucy-mercer.com/writing



Sep 29, 202219:22
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 30 - Clare Pollard

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 30 - Clare Pollard

The final episode of this series features the wonderful Clare Pollard. She's a poet with more than 6 books under her belt, she's a novelist, she's a critic, she has judged more competitions that I could count and she is an immensely lovely person. Such a pleasure to share this with you all.


Today Clare brings in the powerhouse Anne Sexton with a poem called The Truth the Dead Know. You can read the poem here.


Apr 12, 202217:43
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 29 - Deryn Rees-Jones

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 29 - Deryn Rees-Jones

Another instalment this time with a poet so bloody brilliant it feels almost pointless to give her an introduction. She  was named as one of Mslexia’s ‘top ten’ women poets of the decade, as well as being chosen as one of the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation poets. Her book ‘Burying the Wren’ was published in 2012; it was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and a Times Literary Supplement book of the year.

She has such a wealth of knowledge, I can honestly say I learnt a lot in this session!

Today we talk about Wild Iris by Louise Gluck. 


Enjoy.




Apr 05, 202218:45
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 28 - John McCullough

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 28 - John McCullough

This week we are joined by award-winning poet John McCullough whose poems have appeared in magazines including Poetry Review, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Poetry London and Best British Poetry. His first collection The Frost Fairs (Salt, 2011) won the Polari First Book Prize and was Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry School. His last collection Reckless Paper Birds was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Finally he has his new collection called Panic Response out with Penned in the Margins.

Today he gives us a poem by the brilliant Caroline Bird. We talk space, pauses and line-breaks in this fearless breakdown of an absolute belter.

Mar 29, 202215:47
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep27 - Paula Harris

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep27 - Paula Harris

Managed to take a trip across the sea to New Zealand where I'm joined by the delightful Paula Harris. Her poetry has been published in various journals, including <em>Passages</em> <em>North</em>,<em> Barren,</em> <em>New Ohio Review, SWWIM, Glass, Diode, The Spinoff, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook</em> and <em>Aotearotica</em>. Her essays have been published in <em>The Sun</em>, <em>Passages North</em>, <em>Hobart</em>, <em>The Spinoff</em> and <em>Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety</em> (Victoria University Press). Today we are looking at a poem by Hannah Mettner called : <em>Schrödinger's pink corduroy miniskirt</em>
Mar 22, 202217:42
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 26 - Fran Lock

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 26 - Fran Lock

So excited to do this episode. Fran Lock is the author of several poetry collections, including Contains Mild Peril (2019), Raptures and Captures (2019), Ruses and Fuses (2018), Muses and Bruises (2017), Dogtooth (2017), The Mystic and the Pig Thief (2014), and Flatrock (2011).

Today she brings in a hefty poem called 'Through A Screen Darkly' by Golnoosh Nour from her debut collection Rocksong. It's a good poem, good enough for me to buy the whole book



Mar 15, 202218:46
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Episode 25 - Maia Elsner

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Episode 25 - Maia Elsner

Excited to bring you yet another instalment of the Pickle Jar. A place where we invite the best poets to talk about their favourite poems. This week we are joined by Flipped Eye favourite Maia Elsner who brings in a little known poem called Five Men by Polish writer, Zbigniew Herbert. We talk politics in poetry, we discuss violence and how to portray it and we also share our thoughts on what makes this poem so special.

Come get it.

Mar 08, 202218:00
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep24 - Daniel Sluman

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep24 - Daniel Sluman

It's a pleasure to be joined by the brilliant Daniel Sluman. Daniel’s writing first began to be published whilst studying at University, and in 2012 his debut poetry collection Absence has a weight of its own was published to critical acclaim by Nine Arches Press. He was named one of Huffington Post’s Top 5 British Poets to Watch in 2015, the same year his second book the terrible was released. His third collection, single window, was published through Nine Arches Press in September 2021, and was nominated for the T.S Eliot Prize.

Today we speak about a brilliant poem by James Dickey called The Lifeguard. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42717/the-lifeguard

Mar 01, 202218:04
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep23 - Kim Moore

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep23 - Kim Moore

This week we are joined by the brilliant Kim Moore. Her first full length collection The Art of Falling (Seren) won the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize in 2017. She won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. Her latest book was recently released under Seren.


Today she shares a great poem by Vicki Feaver called 1974. We talk sexism, self-reflection and all things poetry.

Feb 22, 202218:27
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 22 - Chrissy Williams

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 22 - Chrissy Williams

This week we are joined by the super woman Chrissy Williams. She is the author of Bear (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) and more recently Low. She's had an array of cross-art, creative excavations which have resulted in visual art, poetry pamphlets, and everything in between. She also curates and edits the online journal Perverse.

She introduces me to a poet I hadn't heard of before called Oli Hazzard

Feb 15, 202217:01
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep. 21 - Jack Underwood
Feb 08, 202217:16
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 20 - Ella Frears

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 20 - Ella Frears

The final episode of the second season and it is a special one. We are joined by the wonderful Ella Frears. She is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling, (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

She has had poetry published in the LRB, Poetry London, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Ambit, The Rialto, and the Moth among others.

Today she brings in two strange, short poems. One by Dianne Williams called The Idea of Counting. The other is by Michael Earl Craig and it's called Tomatoes Disrespect us.



Jun 01, 202116:28
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 19 - Indran Amirthanayagam

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 19 - Indran Amirthanayagam

this week we are off across the waters again joined by Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam. He is a Sri Lankan born poet raised in Colombo London, and Honolulu. He’s the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Elephants of Reckoning (1993), Ceylon, R.I.P. (2001), The Splintered Face (2008), Uncivil War (2013), and Coconuts On Mars (2019). He writes, translates, and publishes poetry and essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, and many other magazines. 


Today we dissect a poem called City of Tailors by Mervyn Taylor. You can read it here http://mokomagazine.org/wordpress/2020/10/28/mervyn-taylor/



May 25, 202116:08
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 18 - Charlotte Ansell

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 18 - Charlotte Ansell

Another brand-spankingly new episode of the Pickle Jar. This week we speak to Charlotte Ansell. Charlotte performs her poems regularly and her work has appeared in Poetry Review, Mslexia, Butcher’s Dog, Prole, Algebra of Owls and various anthologies; most recently ‘These are the hands’ – an anthology of poems by NHS workers. She has won various  competitions (Red Shed, BBC Write Science competition in 2015,  Watermarks in 2016, commended in Yorkmix  in 2016 and shortlisted in the Poetry in film category of the Outspoken prize for poetry in 2017). Her latest collection Deluge was a PBS Winter choice and is out with Flipped Eye.


Today we dig deep into a Sylvia Plath poem called Stillborn. You can have a read of it here - https://hellopoetry.com/poem/695/stillborn/



May 18, 202115:46
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 17 - Deborah Alma

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 17 - Deborah Alma

Deborah Alma is a UK poet, with an MA with distinction, in Creative Writing from Keele University. She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, The Everyday Poet- Poems to live by (both Michael O’Mara), and #Me Too – rallying against sexual harassment- a women’s poetry anthology (Fair Acre Press, March 2018). Her True Tales of the Countryside was published by The Emma Press in 2015 and her first full collection Dirty Laundry was published by Nine Arches Press (May 2018).

Deborah is also the Emergency poet and owner of The Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire.


Today she joins me to look at a Seamus Heaney poem called Postscript. Read it here - https://poems.com/poem/postscript/




May 11, 202115:48
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 16 - Amy Acre

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 16 - Amy Acre

This week we are joined by poet and performer Amy Acre. She has two pamphlets both of which were Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choices, she also won the Verve poetry Prize with a memorable poem called every girl knows, but bigger than that, she is the editor of one of the biggest and wildest small presses in the country, BAD BETTY PRESS. 

Today we talk about this exert from Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk you can download it here 


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/amriss56owc8jqb/AACM357cp4pdukBknElETOkza?dl=0

May 04, 202118:29
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 15 - Lewis Buxton
Apr 27, 202120:27
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 14 - Carlos Andrés Gómez

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 14 - Carlos Andrés Gómez

This week we travelling to the states to hit you up with Carlos Andrés Gómez. He's a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, author of FracturesHijito, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood. This man has too many awards to fit into this bio, he's star on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and TV One’s Verses and Flows and today he is bringing in a poem by Rachel Eliza Griffiths called Seeing the body.  You can read it here : https://poets.org/poem/seeing-body



Apr 13, 202118:52
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 13 - Vidyan Ravinthiran

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 13 - Vidyan Ravinthiran

In today's Pickle Jar we're joined by Vidyan Ravinthiran. He's a poet who grew up in a mixed area of Leeds (in the North of England), studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and is now an Associate Professor of English Literature at Harvard. He's the author of two books of verse. Grun-tu-molani (Bloodaxe, 2014) was shortlisted for several first collection awards, with individual poems appearing in The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Financial Times. The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here (2019) won a Northern Writers Award, was a PBS Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes. Harvard, 

Today we talk about this piece by Lakdasa Wikkramasinha


Don’t Talk To Me About Matisse

Don’t talk to me about Matisse, don’t talk to me

about Gauguin, or even

the earless painter van Gogh,

& the woman reclining on a blood-spread . . .

the aboriginal shot by the great white hunter Matisse

with a gun with two nostrils, the aboriginal

crucified by Gauguin—the syphilis-spreader, the yellowed obesity.

Don’t talk to me about Matisse . . .

the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio

where the nude woman reclines forever

on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead of the culture generally—

how the murderers were sustained

by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote

villages the painters came, and our white-washed

mud-huts were splattered with gunfire.

Apr 06, 202117:24
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 12 - Natalie Whittaker

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 12 - Natalie Whittaker

On today's show we are joined by Natalie Whittaker poet and secondary school teacher from South East London. Her debut pamphlet Shadow Dogs was published by Ignition press in 2018. And She is one of London Library’s emerging writers for 2020 / 2021. Her poems have been widely published in UK magazines and anthologies. Her latest pamphlet Tree is just OUT on Verve Publishing. It is writing dealing with her personal experience of stillbirth and the mental illness that can follow such a traumatic event.

We look closely at a poem by Jack Underwood. You can read it here https://poetryarchive.org/poem/man-dragging-dead-dog/



Mar 30, 202116:00
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 11 - Katrina Naomi

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 11 - Katrina Naomi

Back for series two. This week we are joined by Poet, Mentor and Facilitator Katrina Naomi. She has four collections under her belt. these include Wild Persistence, published by Seren and Typhoon Etiquette, published in 2019 by Verve Poetry Press. She has also had her poetry appear on  on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, and in The TLSThe Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Today she is bringing Ink-Light by Natalie Diaz. It is a wonderfully magical poem so come have a listen.

Mar 23, 202117:17
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 10 - Cecilia Knapp

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 10 - Cecilia Knapp

For this tenth instalment of the Pickle Jar we invite Cecilia Knapp into the jar. She's a poet, playwright and novelist and the current Young People’s Laureate for London. Her poems have appeared in The White Review, Magma and Bath, She’s a former resident artist at The Roundhouse and a Ted X speaker, and her debut novel is forthcoming from The Borough Press (Harper Collins.) as well as all this she is a great facilitator and advocate for poetry for all people

Today she brings a brilliant poem by Rachel Long called Self-portrait with a baby. 

Feb 02, 202117:11
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 9 - Jo Bell

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 9 - Jo Bell

Today we are joined by poet, performer, playwright, project manager, programmer, producer and former Canal Laureate of the UK, Jo Bell. She devised the immensely successful online poetry group 52 which is a good reflection of her personal mission to use social media as a stimulus to encourage new writers into the fray. She also has a collection called Kitch published with Nine Arches Press.

Today she brings us a sweet little poem about doing a shit in a wood, it's called Giant Puffballs and it's by Neil Rollinson. Have a read of it here:


https://poetryarchive.org/poem/giant-puffballs/?fbclid=IwAR0G6e9h_6WCB1U0S0zm1gshzb76aEc3q7-Wag-va38VUwLcjQSkioxjyl8



Jan 26, 202116:19
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 8 - Abi Palmer

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 8 - Abi Palmer

In this episode we are joined by artist and amazing human being Abi Palmer. She is an artist and writer exploring the relationship between linguistic and physical communication. her latest book on Penned in the margins is Sanatorium—a fragmented memoir that jumps between a luxury thermal pool and a blue inflatable bathtub.

Today she is taking us on a long poem ride of a life time as we look at this whopper from Matthea Harvey. Come get it.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51614/pity-the-bathtub-its-forced-embrace-of-the-human-form

Jan 19, 202117:53
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep 7 - Carole Bromley
Jan 12, 202115:56
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 6 - Anthony Anaxagorou

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 6 - Anthony Anaxagorou

In today's Pickle Jar we are joined by the brilliant Anthony Anaxagorou. His  recent collection  After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins, 2019) was nominated for a TS Eliot Prize. In today's episode he shall be bringing in a little known poem by Robin Beth Schaer called Holdfast.

check out the poem here : https://poets.org/poem/holdfast



Jan 05, 202116:54
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 5 - Jonathan Edwards

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 5 - Jonathan Edwards

This week we travel to Wales to talk to Poetry Wales Editor and amazing poet Jonathan Edwards. He's a Costa Prize winner for his debut collection and more recently he has brought his second collection Gen to rave reviews. 

He brings with him a poem called 'In the Green Baize' by Alan Perry. A snooker poem guaranteed to get you potting the black. Come have a listen and a learn

Dec 22, 202015:32
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 4 - Simon Mole
Dec 15, 202015:02
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 3 - Hannah Lowe

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 3 - Hannah Lowe

In today's Pickle Jar we are joined by the brilliant Hannah Lowe. She is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Her second collection, Chan, is also published by Bloodaxe. Her latest brand new collection is expected out in 2021. She undertook her AHRC-funded PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and now lectures in Creative Writing at Brunel University.

Hannah is blessing us with a Marie Howe poem called 'What the living do.' You can read the poem here - https://poets.org/poem/what-living-do




Dec 08, 202016:27
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 2 - Peter Kahn
Dec 01, 202015:11
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 1 - Rishi Dastidar

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 1 - Rishi Dastidar

The opening episode of Arji's Poetry Podcast. Each week we bring in some of the world's best poets to discuss the poems they truly love. 

Today we're joined by poet Rishi Dastidar.  Rishi's poetry has been published by Financial Times, New Scientistand the BBC amongst many others. His debut collection Ticker-tape is published by Nine Arches Press, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. He is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and his latest collection Saffron Jack has received rave reviews.

Today he brings the brilliant poem 'Lousy with unfuckedness, I dream' by Amy Key. 

You can read the poem here - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/145170/lousy-with-unfuckedness-i-dream

Nov 23, 202015:37