Poetry worth hearing

Features 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.

This 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 Further details about poets and texts of unpublished poems can be found on poetryworthhearing.biz.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.com

The 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.

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This 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.

More information about the poets and their publications is available at poetryworthhearing.biz.

To submit to Poetry Worth Hearing , send a recording of up to 4 minutes of unpublished poems with their texts and a short bio to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com

This 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

This 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.

This 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.

Welcome 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 of poems, published and unpublished, which approach different kinds of work in different ways. Sometimes work itself is the theme, sometimes the job is an opportunity to explore other ideas. Poets include Sarah J. Bryson, Stephen Paul Wren, Alan Buckley, Pat Winslow, Merryn Williams, Dinah Livingstone, Roddy Maude-Roxby, David Burridge, Helen Overell, Jane Thomas, Philip Pollecoff, Carl Tomlinson and Sarah Watkinson.

This 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 poetic form.

More information about the episode as well as texts of the poems can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz, where you will also find more details about how to contribute.

If you would like to comment on this episode or contribute to future episodes please send suggestions or recordings to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com

This 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.

In 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.com

This 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 

This 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.

This 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.

In 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.

This 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 of poems, information about poets, publication details and references can all be found on poetryworthhearing.biz. Submissions, suggestions and feedback should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com.

This 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 also have a number of exciting individual poems by Claire Cox, Jennifer A McGowan, David Ratcliffe, Trisha Broomfield, Steve Xerri and finally, a selection from Jane Duran's recent collection, the clarity of distant things, Carcanet, 2021.

Texts of poems and more information about the poets and the podcast are available on poetryworthhearing.biz. Submissions of unpublished work in recordings of no more than 4 minutes should be sent to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com. 

Welcome 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 be found on the website, poetryworthhearing.biz,  in the post for Episode 3.  

In 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.biz

Here 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.

This 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.

This 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.