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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this episode we talk to Nerys Williams about her explosive third collection ‘Republic’. ‘Republic’ opens a window on life in rural west Wales during the 1980s and 90s when arts and culture boomed. English and Welsh-language post-punk bands, politics, feminism and family life are thrown together on the page as the poet questions what constitutes a republic?
Nerys Williams’s first collection ‘Sound Archive’ (Seren) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Irish Strong First Collection Prize. In 2017 she was a Government of Wales-Literature Wales poet in residence at Passa Porta, Brussels as part of the Literature of Loss programme. That same year her second collection ‘Cabaret’ was published by New Dublin Press. Nerys is an Associate Professor in poetry and poetics University College Dublin, a Fulbright alumnus and is originally from Carmarthenshire. She lives in Kells, Co. Meath, Ireland.
‘Republic’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/republic/
Find out more about the ‘Republic’ playlist on the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/2023/02/guest-post-listening-to-republic-nerys-williams/ or listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/010HvnjFmyrCIqIhCofOUF.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories https://alternativestories.com/
You can find out more about Nerys Williams by visiting her website http://www.neryswilliams.com/about-us/ or following her on X: @achifsain
Other books by Nerys Williams
‘Sound Archive’ https://www.serenbooks.com/book/sound-archive/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
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Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
We hope you enjoyed the last episode of Season 2. If you’ve enjoyed listening along, don’t forget to also revisit Season 1 wherever you get your podcasts.
The Seren Poetry Podcast will return! Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our full podcast featuring Nerys Williams and her collection Republic will be out on Thursday 21st December You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson, Rachael Clyne, Glyn Edwards , Judy Brown and Vanessa Lampert in our podcast feed.
Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this episode, we talk to Vanessa Lampert about her debut collection Say It With Me which explores themes of family, the everyday and loss. She discusses how writing can be an act of remembrance when living with grief, and how certain animals can be symbols of hope.
Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist and poet from Oxfordshire. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London. Since graduating in 2019 she has won the Café Writers prize, the Edward Thomas prize, the Sentinel prize and the Ver Poetry prize twice and come second in the Fish, Yeovil, Oxford Brookes, Ware and Kent & Sussex prizes. She has been placed in many other competitions including commendations in the Bridport, Troubadour, Alpine Fellowship and Daily Telegraph prizes. She was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2020 and listed in 2021.
‘Say it With Me’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/say-it-with-me/
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
You can find out more about Vanessa Lampert by visiting her website https://vanessalampert.me or by following her on social media:
X: @nessalampert
Instagram: @vanessa_lampert_2018
Other books by Vanessa Lampert:
‘On Long Loan’ (Live Cannon) https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/on-long-loan-vanessa-lampert
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Nerys Williams about her collection ‘Republic’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our fifth podcast of season three which will feature a full-length interview with Judy Brown will be out on Thursday 14th December and we'll bring you one further interview with a Seren poet in the series. You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson, Rachael Clyne, Glyn Edwards and Judy Brown in our podcast feed.
Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we talk to Judy Brown about her third collection ‘Lairs’. Describing it as the ‘angriest’ of her three books so far, Judy discusses the lair as a place of restriction or a confined space, her residency at Exeter University’s Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and other underlying themes from the book such as ‘pivotal change’.
Judy Brown is an award-winning poet who has published 3 full collections with Seren and a pamphlet ‘Pillars of Salt’ with Templar Poetry. Judy’s first poetry collection, ‘Loudness’ (2011), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her second collection, ‘Crowd Sensations’ (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Second Collection Prize. Her third collection ‘Lairs’ was published in 2022. Judy now works as a freelance tutor and mentor and gives Poetry Surgeries in London and online for the Poetry Society.
‘Lairs’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/lairs/
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
You can find out more about Judy Brown by visiting her website https://judybrownpoems.wordpress.com or following her on social media @JudyBrown__
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
X https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Other books by Judy Brown
‘Pillars of Salt’ (Templar Poetry) https://templarpoetry.com/products/pillars-of-salt-by-judy-brown
‘Loudness’https://www.serenbooks.com/book/loudness/
‘Crowd Sensations’ https://www.serenbooks.com/book/crowd-sensations/
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Vanessa Lampert about her debut collection ‘Say it With Me’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our fourth podcast of season three which will feature a full-length interview with Judy Brown and will be out on Thursday 7th December and we'll bring you two further interviews with Seren poets in the series. You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson, Rachael Clyne and Glyn Edwards in our podcast feed.
Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this episode we speak to North Wales-based poet Glyn Edwards about his collection, ‘In Orbit’ which is a sustained narrative of love, loss and longing. Using a variety of innovative forms, the collection explores grief and how we come to terms with losing someone close to us. The natural world offers sustenance and a new perspective in the face of intense emotions as a man struggles to come to terms with news of a beloved teacher’s death.
Glyn Edwards is a PhD researcher in ecopoetry at Bangor University. His first poetry collection ’Vertebrae’ was published by the Lonely Press. He co-edits Modron, a journal for environmental writing, and the Wild Words feature for North Wales Wildlife Trust. He is a former winner and trustee of the Terry Hetherington Award for Welsh young writers and works as a teacher in North Wales.
‘In Orbit’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/in-orbit/
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
You can find out more about Glyn Edwards by visiting his website https://www.glynedwardspoet.co.uk or following him on social media @glynfedwards
Other books by Glyn Edwards:
‘Vertebrae’ (The Lonely Crowd) https://thelonelycrowd.org/vertebrae-by-glyn-edwards/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://alternativestories.com/Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Judy Brown about her collection ‘Lairs’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our third podcast of season three which will feature a full-length interview with Glyn Edwards will be out on Thursday 30th November and we will have four further interviews with Seren poets in the series. You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson and Rachael Clyne in our podcast feed.
Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this episode we talk to Rachael Clyne about identity, belonging and self-acceptance, three central themes from her collection ‘You’ll Never Be Anyone Else’. Throughout the book, Rachel uses playful wit, and colourful imagery to explore Jewish and lesbian identity through various stages of life and consider what it takes to reconcile being different.
Rachael Clyne is a poet from Glastonbury. Her work has been published in journals such as Iamb, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lighthouse, Rialto, Shearsman, and Tears in the Fence, and widely anthologized. Her debut collection ‘Singing at the Bone Tree’ (Indigo Dreams) won Indigo Dreams’ Geoff Stevens Award 2013. Her pamphlet, ‘Girl Golem’ (4word.org), explores her Jewish migrant heritage and sense of otherness. Rachael was a professional actor, then psychotherapist. Her passions are eco-issues and identity.
‘You’ll Never be Anyone Else’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
You can find out more about Rachael Clyne on her website https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ or by following her on social media:
X @RachaelClyne1
Other books by Rachael Clyne:
‘Girl Golem’ (4word.org) https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/girl-golem-by-rachel-clyne
‘Singing at the Bone Tree’ (Indigo Dreams) https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9781909357518
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://alternativestories.com/
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Glyn Edwards about his collection ‘In Orbit’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our second podcast of season two which will feature a full-length interview with Rachael Clyne will be out on Thursday 23rd November and we will have four further interviews with Seren poets in the series. You can already listen to our interview with Rhiannon Hooson in our podcast feed.
Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In the first episode of series 2, we talk to Rhiannon Hooson about her collection ‘Goliat’, the long-awaited follow up to her Wales Book of the Year shortlisted debut ‘The Other City’. Full of vivid imagery, pointed observations and informed by a deep sense of history, these poems offer absorbing stories of a precarious world on the brink of climate emergency. We chat to her about her fascination with the more-than-human, how arts informs her poetry, and the collection’s central sequence ‘Full Moon on Fish Street’.
Dr Rhiannon Hooson is a Welsh poet and author who has won major awards for her work, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed at literature festivals across the UK, and her work has been featured in the Guardian, Magma, and Poetry Wales among others. In the last few years, she has been a Literature Wales bursary recipient, a Hay Festival Writer at Work, poetry editor of Creative Countryside magazine, and the judge of the PENfro festival poetry competition. She has a PhD in poetry from the University of Lancaster and spent time living and working in Cumbria and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, before settling in the Welsh marches.
‘Goliat’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/goliat/
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Sarah Johnson
The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
You can find out more about Rhiannon Hooson by visiting her website https://www.rhiannonhooson.com/p/bio.html or by following her on Instagram @rhiannon.hooson
Other books by Rhiannon Hooson
‘The Other City’ https://www.serenbooks.com/book/the-other-city/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://alternativestories.com/
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Rachael Clyne about her collection ‘You’ll Never Be Anyone Else’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
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Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Our first podcast which will feature a full-length interview with Rhiannon Hooson will be out on Thursday 16th November and we will have five further interviews with Seren poets in the series.
Subscribe now in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with Kim Moore, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022. Her winning collection All The Men I Never Married is pointedly feminist, challenging and keenly aware of the contradictions and complexities of desire. The 48 numbered poems take us through a gallery of exes and significant others where we encounter rage, pain, guilt, and love and the ‘easy misogyny’ of everyday life.The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.
You can find out more about Kim Moore by visiting her website https://www.kimmoorepoet.co.uk/
Other books by Kim Moore
If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith|Doorstop) – Winner of the Poetry Business Pamphlet Prize https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/if-we-could-speak-like-wolves/
The Art of Falling (Seren) – winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/art-falling
What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith|Doorstop) https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/what-the-trumpet-taught-me/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links belowhttps://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
We would like to express our thanks to Wordsworth Grasmere and all the staff there for their hospitality during our visit. If you’d like to find out more about the work of Wordsworth Grasmere, get details of how you can visit the museum or attend one of their events please use the links below.
You can visit the Wordsworth Grasmere website here https://wordsworth.org.uk/And follow them on social media via these links
https://twitter.com/WordsworthGras
https://www.instagram.com/WordsworthGrasmere/
https://www.facebook.com/WordsworthGrasmere/
This is the last interview in series one of The Seren Poetry Podcast. We hope you’ve enjoyed listening! Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to revisit the series so far. We’ll be back in 2023… -
Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with poet Eric Ngalle Charles. Eric Ngalle Charles was born in the west African state of Cameroon, a country rich in mythology and natural beauty, but with a troubled colonial history. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer, and dazzling performer of his own work. In this conversation we chat to him about his debut poetry collection Homelands.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at the Seren office in Bridgend.
You can follow Eric on Twitter @yomadene https://twitter.com/yomadene
Other books by Eric Ngalle Charles:
‘I, Eric Ngalle’ (Parthian Books) https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/i-eric-ngalle-a-migrant
‘The 3 Molas’ (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch) https://www.waterstones.com/book/3-molas-the/mike-jenkins/eric-ngalle-charles/9781845277512
‘Hiraeth Erzolirzoli: A Wales – Cameroon Anthology’ (Hafan Books) https://hafanbooks.org/2020/09/23/bestsellers/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for the last conversation in our first series. We’ll be talking to Kim Moore, about her Forward Prize shortlisted collection All The Men I Never Married, which will be released on Thursday 1st December. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.
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Our fifteenth preview podcast features Eric Ngalle Charles introducing and reading his poem ‘Homeland’, the title poem from his debut collection. The poem is read by Eric and was recorded on location at the Seren office in Brigend.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Eric in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 24th November.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.
https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with poet Rosalind Hudis about her collection Restorations. Rosalind Hudis grew up in Suffolk but now lives in West Wales with her partner and family. A one-time accordion player in a gypsy band, Rosalind now works as a freelance writer, editor, reviewer and tutor.
Restorations is a journey into what it means to preserve – a monument, a moment, a life-story, a poppy. It’s about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary, there are poems about pigments and dictators, glue and glass houses, collections, crinolines, and barometers, and the vagaries of memory itself. Entwined, is a more personal story that tracks the loss of a parent to dementia. Also running through, is a theme of women eroding the straitjacket of gendered roles. Linking all is a play with colour, particularly blue, in all its stages from vital to decayed.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on Zoom. As with all video calls, the sound quality may not always be perfect. but we hope you’ll enjoy listening.
You can find out more about Rosalind’s poetry on her website https://rosalindhudis.wordpress.com/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with Eric Ngalle Charles, about his collection Homelands, which will be released on Thursday 24th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
Don’t forget to leave us a review if you like what you hear.
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Our fourteenth preview podcast features Rosalind Hudis reading her poem ‘Insulation’ from her collection Restorations. The poem is read by Rosalind and was recorded via Zoom so we apologise if the sound quality isn't always perfect.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Rosalind in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 17th November.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.
https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
Some of the poems featured in this episode contain swearing. If you are likely to be offended by this please avoid this podcastIn this edition we speak with poet Ben Wilkinson about his second collection Same Difference. Born in the Midlands, Ben now lives in Sheffield. His poems, criticism and journalism regularly appear in national publications including The Guardian, The Poetry Review, The New Statesman, The Spectator, and the TLS. In 2014 he won both a Northern Writers’ Award and the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Bolton. His debut collection, Way More Than Luck, was highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Ben’s home in Sheffield.
You can find out more about Ben’s poetry on his website https://www.benwilkinson.org/
Poetry collections Ben has enjoyed reading:
High Desert – André Naffis-Sahely (Bloodaxe Books, 2022) https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/high-desert-1302 Peach Pig – Cecilia Knapp (Little Brown, 2022) https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/cecilia-knapp/peach-pig/9781472156815/ The Arctic – Don Paterson (Faber, 2022) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338184-the-arctic/ Ben Wilkinson’s reader on Don Paterson: Don Paterson: Writers and their Work (Liverpool University Press, 2021) https://uk.bookshop.org/books/don-paterson/9781800855373Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Contact them by email at [email protected]This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
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Please join us next week for a conversation with Rosalind Hudis, about her collection Restorations, which will be released on Thursday 17th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.
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Our thirteenth preview podcast features Ben Wilkinson reading his poem ‘Nightingale’ from his second collection Same Difference. The poem is read by Ben Wilkinson and was recorded at his home in Sheffield.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Ben in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 10th November.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.
https://www.serenbooks.com/
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Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with poet and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke about her third collection We Have to Leave the Earth which considers themes of the environment and motherhood.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is currently reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has published 15 books in 23 languages and won numerous awards, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Tyrone Guthrie Prize, a K Blundell Award, and she has won a Northern Writer’s Award three times.
Carolyn has a prestigious parallel career as the novelist C.J. Cooke. Her first novel The Guardian Angel’s Journal was an international bestseller. Her book The Lighthouse Witches was published in October 2021, was nominated for numerous prizes, was an international best seller, and is soon to be a major TV series. Her latest novel The Ghost Woods was published in 2022.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Carolyn’s home near Glasgow.
You can find out more about Carolyn’s poetry and fiction on her website https://carolynjesscooke.com/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with Ben Wilkinson, about his collection Same Difference, which will be released on Thursday 10th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.
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