Ian McMillan is a poet, journalist, broadcaster. His books include To Fold The Evening Star, Neither Nowt Nor Summat, My Sand Life My Pebble Life and Dad the Donkey’s on Fire. He has been hosting The Verb since 2002, BBC Radio 4’s Cabaret of the word. He has worked with The Circus of Poets, a performance poetry group and Versewagon, the World’s first mobile writing workshop. 

Books and other things

To Fold the Evening Start New And Selected Poems: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784101886/to-fold-the-evening-star/

My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/my-sand-life-my-pebble-life-9781472982957/ 

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The Verb on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006tnsf?page=1 

Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Ian MacMillan*, The er Barnsley Seascapes (Poetry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzimhyGgLUE 

Ian MacMillan*, the Bard of Yorkshire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3OyfhnwnSE 

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Roma Havers is a queer poet, theatre-maker and unsolicited go-go dancer – from your hometown but living in Manchester with their partner, allotment and every stone they’ve ever pocketed. Commissioned by Orchestra’s Live, Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Museum, among many others, they are known for their ‘joyful, communal and tender’ work. Their debut collection ‘The Natural Way’ was published by Carcanet in February 2026.

Books and other things

The Natural Way: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800175464/the-natural-way/

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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Kayleigh Hicks & Roma Havers - Act 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxfzeGIVKb4&t=20s

Let the Artists in! Roma Havers: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/let-artists-roma-havers

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Helen Calcutt is a poet, dancer and choreographer. Her pamphlet Somehow was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2020, and her collection Feeling All the Kills was published by Pavilion Press in 2024. Helen also founded Beyond Words which is a dance theatre company, which specialises in using Hypha which is a technique Helen innovated for translating text into movement.

Books and other things

Feeling All the Kills: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802074727

Somehow: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/verve-poetry-press/products/somehow-by-helen-calcutt

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https://helencalcutt.com/

https://www.beyondwordsdancetheatre.com/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers

Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Tsaá with Helen Calcutt: Writing pain and love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJZ6rXsVE0&t=1718s

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers - Dance Adapation by Beyond Words Dance Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6p_cNyl5Ig

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Taz Rahman is a poet, photographer and broadcaster based in Cardiff. He founder Wales’ first Poetry YouTube Channel Just Another Poet, where he captures poetry events and has an wide array of amazing interviews with poets. His debut collection East of the Sun, West of the Moon was published in 2024 with Seren press. 

Books and other things

East of the Sun, West of the Moon: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon/

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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Just Another Poet YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@justanotherpoet2542

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Michael Symmons Roberts is a poet, librettist, Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, and worked at the BBC in radio and then as a documentary filmmaker. He has published 9 collections, the most recent is called Dogstar and was published earlier this month by Jonathan Cape.

Books and other things

Dogstar: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/474274/dog-star-by-roberts-michael-symmons/9781787336032

Ransom: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442539/ransom-by-michael-symmons-roberts/9781787333123

Mancunia : https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/434442/mancunia-by-michael-symmons-roberts/9781911214298

Drysalter: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/411086/drysalter-by-michael-symmons-roberts/9781448181407

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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Michael Symmons Roberts talks about his work (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjhZx2pt60

Michael Symmons Roberts talks about his work (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CY5SGZumwI

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Martin Kratz is a poet, translator, and programme manager at Manchester Poetry Library. He was co-editor of Mount London (Penned in the Margins, 2014) and the author of a poetry pamphlet, A Skeleton’s Progress (Poetry Salzburg, 2018).

Books and other things

A Skelton’s Progress: https://www.poetrysalzburg.com/skeleton.htm

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Manchester Poetry Library: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library

Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Commemoration Day of Ferdowsi 2021, Martin Kratz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjhZx2pt60

Martin Kratz and Scott Lilley : York - European Poetry Festival 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6p_cNyl5Ig

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Natalie Shapero is a poet and teacher. Her most recent collection is Stay Dead published in the UK by Outspoken Press and in the US by Copper Canyon Press. And of course it was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her previous collections include Popular Longing, Hard Child and No Object. She teaches at UC Irvine.

Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this episode as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/        

Books and other things

Stay Dead: https://www.outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

Popular Longing: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/popular-longing-by-natalie-shapero/

Hard Child: https://www.powells.com/book/hard-child-9781556595097

No Object: https://www.powells.com/book/no-object-9780983368670

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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Natalie Shapero talks about her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAiZLPfoME

Natalie Shapero Drunk as a Poet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/natalie-shapero/id1735261299?i=1000731801211

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Catherine-Esther Cowie is a poet, fiction writer and visual artist. She was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. She attended high-school, undergrad and graduate schools in Canada and the US. Currently, Catherine-Esther resides in Illinois. Her work has been nominated for AWP Intro Journal, a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2018 and 2019. Her visual art was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology 2023. Her debut Collection Heirloom is published by Carcanet .

Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this episode as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/       

Books and other things

Heirloom: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174795/heirloom/

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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:

Young Critic Aphra Le Levier-Bennett reviews Catherine-Esther Cowie's Heirloom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysqPl9nMfT0

Poetry Today: 9/15/2025 Esther Cowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFF5bSSEJXw&t=255s

ROSALÍA: The LUX Interview | The Zane Lowe Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCcoi3Tzv_Y

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Isabelle Baafi is a poet and editor based in London. Her debut collection Chaotic Good won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and is shortlisted for the T.S, Eliot Prize. She is the Reviews Editor at Poetry London and is a Ledbury Poetry Critic, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow and board member at Magma.

Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this episode as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/      

Books and other things

Chaotic Good: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571390953-chaotic-good/

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An incomplete list of poems/books mentioned in this episode:

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/143917/american-sonnet-for-my-past-and-future-assassin-598dc83c976f1

A man is dragging a dead dog by Jack Underwood: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/man-dragging-dead-dog/  

January Children by Safia Elhillo: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803295988/the-january-children/

Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair: https://safiyasinclair.com/cannibal

Things I read/watched/etc in the lead up to this interview:

In Conversation with Isabelle Baafi: https://forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversation-with-isabelle-baafi/

sub(VERSE)ive: In Conversation with Isabelle Baafi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4Blu8Ke-c&t=1107s

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Gillian Allnutt is a poet based in the northeast of England. She has published 10 collections of poetry including Nantuckert and the Angel and Lintel which were both shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 1997 and 2001 respectively. Of course, Gillian’s most recent collection Lode published by Bloodaxe has been shortlisted for this years TS Elliot prize. She won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2005 and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2010.

Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this episode as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/     

Books and other things

Lode: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lode-1376

Wake: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/wake-1183

How the Bicycle Shone: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/how-the-bicycle-shone-860

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We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.

Things I read/watched/etc in the lead up to this interview

Interview on Monk Gallery mentioned in the episode: https://monk.gallery/interviews/gillian-allnutt-under-northern-skies-divinations-of-a-warrior-poet/

Gillian Allnutt Talks About Her Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T56nzN_giwo

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Vona Groarke has written numerous volumes of poetry, all published by The Gallery Press. Including: Shale, X, Double Negative, and most recently Infinity Pool which, of course, was shortlisted for 2025’s TS Eliot Prize. Vona teaches at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester and was recently selected as the Ireland Professor of Poetry.

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Books and other things:

Infinity Pool: https://gallerypress.com/product/infinity-pool/

Link (Poet and World): https://gallerypress.com/product/link-poet-and-world/

Hereafter The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara: https://nyupress.org/9781479835324/hereafter/

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Things I watched in the lead up to this interview

Vona Groarke talks of passion, architecture, and sonnets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZDldxhDlk&t=34s

Speech by President Higgins to celebrate Vona Groarke as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxyDMTzKgcE

Vona Groarke talks about her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtj70aF894 (this wasn’t actually out before our interview but it is good nonetheless)

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Sarah Howe is a poet and editor. She has published two collections of poetry including her debut Loop of Jade which won the TS Eliot Prize in 2015 and then Foretokens published in 2025. Previously she taught poetry and creative writing at King’s College London and is now the Poetry Editor at Chatto and Windus.

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Books and other things:

Foretokens: www.penguin.co.uk/books/470921/foretokens-by-howe-sarah/9781784746131

Loop of Jade: www.penguin.co.uk/books/419789/loop-of-jade-by-sarah-howe/9780701188696

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We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.

Things I watched in the lead up to this interview

Sarah Howe | Two Systems || Radcliffe Institute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHa4OEqaeo&t=1076s 

An interview with Sarah Howe, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ShuXnfBKk

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Nick Makoha is a poet, playwright and founder of the Obsidian Foundation. He has published two collections, his first Kingdom of Gravity and his most recent The New Carthaginians published by Penguin Press and of course shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this email as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/  

Books and other things:

The New Carthaginians: www.penguin.co.uk/books/463875/the-new-carthaginians-by-makoha-nick/9781802067064

Kingdom of Gravity: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/kingdom-gravity

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Obsidian Foundation: obsidianfoundation.co.uk/

Things I watched in the lead up to this interview

sub(VERSE)ive: In Conversation with Nick Makoha: www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpxb1PAh0k&t=2885s

Basquiat Revolution: From Policing To Parties, Family & Fab 5 Freddy Recount Artist's Work (2022): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg8aA9VRHKQ&t=1450s

Jean Michel Basquiat Interview - Patty Astor & Fab 5 Freddy on the Fun Gallery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa8LBtaOsxs

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Clare Pollard is a poet, novelist, children’s author, translator non-fiction writer and editor. She wrote her first poetry collection The Heavy-Petting Zoo (published by Bloodaxe) was written while she was still in school. Her other books include The Modern Fairies, The Untameables, Delphi and her most recent collection of poetry The Lives of the Female Poets is published by Bloodaxe. 

Links to writing

Lives of the Female Poets: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lives-of-the-female-poets 

Incarnation: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/incarnation-1134

Look, Clare ! Look!: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/look-clare-look--817

Delphi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447396/delphi-by-pollard-clare/9780241995266 

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Clare's Poetry Circle Substack: https://clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/

Things I watched in the lead up to this interview

Launch reading by Emilie Jenlinek, Clare Pollard and Jessica Traynor (Bloodaxe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He4JaXNJzdw

Clare Pollard in conversation with Helen Eastman (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqZU6JNJo0&t=205s

Poetry as a way to gain control | A Drink with Clare Pollard (Idler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmB955IJFJg 

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George Szirtes is a poet, memoirist, editor and translator. He has published numerous collections of poetry including Reel (which won the TS Eliot Prize), Mapping the Delta and his most recent collection Fresh Out of the Sky published by Bloodaxe. He has translated numerous Hungarian writers into English including 2025’s Nobel Prize for Literature winner László Krasznahorkai.

Fresh Out of the Sky: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/fresh-out-of-the-sky-1280

The Photographer at Sixteen: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/george-szirtes/the-photographer-at-sixteen/9780857058553/

The London Review Bookshop documentary focusing on George produced by Anthony Wilks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IwmwUH570

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Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), Chan's second book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Writer’s Prize. They co-edited the anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan and served as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize. Chan is currently Departmental Lecturer in Poetry on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Flèche: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571348046-fleche/

Bright Fear: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378906-bright-fear/

100 Queer Poems Anthology: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445204/100-queer-poems-by-chan-edited-by-andrew-mcmillan-and-mary-jean/9781529115338

Credit for Mary Jean’s photo: Ray Burmiston

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Erica Hesketh is a poet and editor, originally from Japan and Denmark, now based in London. Her poetry has been commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, Spread the Word and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2016 to 2024 she was Director of the Poetry Translation Centre. Her debut collection, In the Lily Room, is published by Nine Arches Press and explores early motherhood.

Erica Hesketh’s Website: https://ericahesketh.co.uk

In the Lily Room: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/in-the-lily-room

Living in Language, essay anthology: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/living-in-language-pre-order?srsltid=AfmBOop5G-U5NLC42s6RGCKVFraMKl5kJO7gMG5WhRdRGhfx3bmXuGCq

You can find Erica on Instagram: @hesketherica

Credit for Erica’s photo: Christy Ku

Links relating to Gaza:

The Sameer Project Medical Campaign: https://chuffed.org/project/136892-medical-campaign-x-sameer-project

Readers and Writers against the Genocide: https://rwag.teemill.com/

Medical Aid For Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/

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Rishi Dastidar is a poet, copywriter and brand strategist. His books Ticker Tape, Safron Jack and Neptune’s Projects have all been published by Nine Arches Press. His new book A Hobby of Mine was published by Broken Sleep Books earlier this year. He is on the board of 26 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Rishi Dastidar’s Website: https://www.rishidastidar.com/

Rishi’s BBC Radio show on the relationship between poetry and advertising: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kfvf

A Hobby of Mine: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/rishi-dastidar-a-hobby-of-mine

Neptune’s Projects: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/neptune-s-projects

Saffron Jack: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/saffron-jack

The Craft, essay anthology: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/the-craft

Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/too-young-too-loud-too-different-poems-from-malika-s-poetry-kitchen-malika-s-poetry-kitchen/5b6dd2106fdcc93a

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Lewis Buxton is a writer, theatre maker and co-director of TOAST. His books include Boys in Various Poses (published by Nine Arches Press) and Mate Arias (published by Emma Press). He toured his debut theatre show ‘Workout!’ and toured FRIEND in 2024.

You can buy Lewis’ book Mate Arias here: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/mate-arias/  

And you can buy Boys in Various Poses here: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/boy-in-various-poses

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Katie Hale is a poet, novelist and mentor. She won the Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts and has published two novels: The Edge of Solitude and My Name is Monster. Katie also mentors young writers through The Writing Squad.  

You can buy Katie’s book White Ghosts here: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-order-katie-hale-white-ghosts/11714

And you can buy The Edge of Solitude here: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-order-katie-hale-the-edge-of-solitude-signed-/13007

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Luke Kennard is a multi award-winning poet for collections including Notes on the Sonnets. His forthcoming collection The Book of Jonah is published by Picador. He is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Birmingham.

You can buy Luke’s most recent book The Book of Jonah here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke-kennard/the-book-of-jonah/9781035069262

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Deryn Rees-Jones is author of several books of poetry including Hôtel Amour, Erato and What It’s Like To Be Alive, all published by Seren. She is also a professor of Poetry at University of Liverpool and editor of the Pavilion Poetry list.

You can buy Deryn’s most recent book Hôtel Armour here: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-amour/

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We talked a fair amount about Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Feminism, if you interested in finding out more you can do so here: https://rosibraidotti.com/publications/2239/

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Anthony Anaxagorou has written numerous collections including Heritage Aesthetics and After the Formalities (published by Granta Books and Penned in the Margins respectively). Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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You can buy Anthony’s most recent book Heritage Aesthetic here: https://anthonyanaxagorou.com/heritage-aesthetics

You can also check out the Out-Spoken Press shop here: https://www.outspokenldn.com/press

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Daniel Sluman has written numerous collections including Single Window, The Terrible and Absence has a weight of its own. In 2021 Daniel was nominated for the T.S. Elliot award. He also was the co-editor of the first major UK Disability poetry anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets.

You can buy Daniel’s most recent book Single Window here: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/single-window

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Mimi Khalvati is a poet who received the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2023. In 2024 her Collected Poems were published by Carcanet, which later won the Jhalak Poetry Prize. Mimi was one of the co-founders of The Poetry School.

You can buy Mimi’s Collected Poems here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800173330/collected-poems/

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Rachael Allen is a poet and editor. Her books Kingdomland and God Complex have been published by Faber and Faber. The latter shortlisted for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the Laurel Prize. She was the recipient of a Northern Writers' Award and an Eric Gregory Award. Rachael was the poetry editor for Granta and now is the poetry editor at Fitzcarraldo Editions.

You can buy Rachael’s most recent collection God Complex here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379910-god-complex/

You can buy Kingdomland here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571341115-kingdomland/

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Jacob Polley is a poet and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. He has published 5 collections of poetry and a novel called Talk of the Town. His collection, Jackself won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize.

You can buy Jacob’s most recent collection Material Properties here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jacob-polley/material-properties/9781035000081

You can buy Jackself here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jacob-polley/jackself/9781447290445

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Photo of Jacob Polley that we use was taken by Ian Fenton.

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Sandeep Parmar is a poet and Professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool. She has published a broad range of books from her poetry collections to her critical work, including her exploration of the work of Mina Loy.

In the episode we talked about Sandeep’s essay Not a British Subject, and her follow up, Still Not a British Subject.

You can read Not a British Subject here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/not-a-british-subject-race-and-poetry-in-the-uk/

You can read Still Not a British Subject here: https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/3384/

You can buy Faust here: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/faust-by-sandeep-parmar-pre-order-b-br-pbs-autumn-choice-2022-b?srsltid=AfmBOop_DOJ3gjqjyxXQ7vDr6T8OMyK0jUKKI4RZsMw0BjWGZpM90465

You can buy The Marble Orchard here: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Sandeep-Parmar-The-Marble-Orchard-p102839006

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Rachel Mann is a poet and is the Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford. She has authored several books spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction. Her theological texts include Do Not Be Afraid, Dazzling Darkness and her novel is called The Gospel of Eve. Her most recent collection of poetry, Eleanor Among the Saints was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

You can buy Eleanor Among the Saints here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800173811/eleanor-among-the-saints/

You can buy A Kingdon of Love here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784108571/a-kingdom-of-love/

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Steve Ely is a poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield. He has published numerous collections including Oswald’s Book of Hours, Englaland and Eely. He also has published a novel, Ratmen and ran the Ted Hughes Network.

You can buy Steve Ely’s collaborative book with photographer Michael Faint here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/steve-ely-michael-faint-orasaigh

You can buy Steve’s book Eely from Longbarrow Press here: https://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications/steve-ely/

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Betty Doyle is a poet from Liverpool. She completed a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University on the poetics of infertility. Betty has published pamphlets with both Verve Poetry Press and Seren.

You can buy Betty’s most recent pamphlet Fruits of Labour here: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/fruits-of-labour/

You can buy Betty’s pamphlet Girl Parts here: https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/betty-doyle-girl-parts-pre-order-free-uk-pp-due-mar-22/?v=79cba1185463

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Wendy Allen is a poet and ex-cabin crew member for 20 years. She is currently working on her PhD at Manchester Writing School. She has three pamphlets published and one forth coming. She often works collaboratively including with poets Charley Barnes and Galia Admoni.

Can you pre-order Wendy’s most recent pamphlet (Collab with Galia Admoni) here: https://www.salopress.com/store/art-sundays/

You can buy Wendy’s pamphlet Portrait in Mustard here: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/portrait-in-mustard/

You can buy Wendy’s pamphlet Plastic Tubed Bird here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/wendy-allen-plastic-tubed-little-bird

You can buy Wendy’s pamphlet Freebleeding (collab with Charley Barnes) here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/wendy-allen-charley-barnes-freebleeding

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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Jacob Sam-La Rose about inventing forms, computational poetics and how Jacob approaches structuring poems.

You can buy Jacob’s book here: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/breaking-silence-1010 

For more information about The Barbican Young Poets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/take-part/young-creatives/barbican-young-poets

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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Jacob Sam-La Rose about Urban Poets Society, being an editor and starting Barbican Young Poets.

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a poet, editor and facilitator based in London. His collection Breaking Slience was published by Bloodaxe. He established and leads Barbican Young Poets – a literary development programme.

You can buy Jacob’s book here: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/breaking-silence-1010  

For more information about The Barbican Young Poets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/take-part/young-creatives/barbican-young-poets

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Hera Lindsay Bird is a writer based in New Zealand. She has published two books including her self-titled debut collection Hera Lindsay Bird and her pamphlet Pamper Me to Hell & Back was a Laureate’s choice. She has won awards including the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award and has been profiled in VICE, The Guardian and other publications too. She regularly writes an agony aunt column for The Spinoff.

You can buy Hera’s book here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307929/hera-lindsay-bird-by-bird-hera-lindsay/9780141987408

You can buy Hera’s pamphlet here: https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/pamper-me-to-hell-and-back/

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Here is Hera’s advice column for The Spinoff: https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/hera-bird

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Liz Berry is a poet based in Birmingham  who has published numerous books including Black Country, The Republic of Motherhood and The Home Child. Liz has won numerous awards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Writers’ Prize and won two Forward Prizes.

You can buy Black Country here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/419006/black-country-by-liz-berry/9780701188573

You can buy The Home Child here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/438568/the-home-child-by-berry-liz/9781529937817

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Roger Robinson is a writer and educator who has published numerous books including his T.S. Eliot Prize winning collection A Portable Paradise. Roger also has published digital resources to support people to become better poets and to help “make creative blocks obsolete”.

You can buy Home Is Not A Place here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/home-is-not-a-place/

You can buy A Portable Paradise here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/a-portable-paradise/

You can buy On Poetry, On Creativity bundle here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/on-poetry-on-creativity/

Roger mentioned the Palestinian poet Taha Muhummed Ali. You can buy his book here: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/so-what-888

The particular poem of Ali’s that Roger mentioned called Revenge can be read here: https://www.lionsroar.com/about-a-poem-ruth-ozeki-on-tahamuhammad-alis-revenge/

You can buy Mosab Abu Toha’s most recent book here: https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/forest-of-noise-mosab-abu-toha?utm_campaign=buy_button&utm_medium=hcwpnetwork&utm_source=www.4thestate.co.uk&variant=41658362560590

You can buy Mohammed El-Kurd’s most recent book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1744-rifqa

Link to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians): https://www.map.org.uk/

Link to a guide published by BDS: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott  

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Helen Mort is a writer based in Sheffield. Back in 2015 she was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets and has won numerous awards including the Eric Gregory Award in 2007. Helen’s most recent publication Dad Vs. Dad from Verse Poetry Press explores the aftermath of her father’s stroke through a combination of lyric and erasure poetry.

You can buy Dad vs Dad here: https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/helen-mort-dad-vs-dad/?v=79cba1185463

You can buy The Illustrated Woman here: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/the-illustrated-woman-by-helen-mort-pre-order  

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Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. She has been shortlisted for prizes like The Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Ella’s most recent book, Goodlord is published by Rough Trade Books and is a book that defies form definition, a vortex of novel, long poem and email.

You can buy Goodlord here: https://roughtradebooks.com/products/goodlord-an-email-ella-frears

You can buy Shine, Darling here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/shine-darling-ella-frears/3082167?ean=9781916015920

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Stevie Ronnie is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Northumberland. He was longlisted for the John Moores Prize for his piece called Thirty Hours or So of Being Awake. Stevie works with The Writing Squad as one of their mentors to young writers.  

You can check out more of Stevie Ronnie’s work can be found at his website here: stevieronnie.com

The project he worked on based on his trip to the artic can be found here: https://stevieronnie.com/the-arctic-was-a-poem-twisted-into-rope-2

The poem Stevie wrote called I Dream of Canute (& the Sea is Rising) can be found here: https://stevieronnie.com/i-dream-of-canute-the-sea-is-rising-2

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Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a poet based in York and her collection Food for the Dead was published by Jonathan Cape in 2024. Charlotte has gone on to win the Laurel Prize for first collection, and has been shortlisted for the Felix Dennis prize for best first collection amongst other prizes.

You can buy Charlotte’s book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/food-for-the-dead-a-masterpiece-olia-hercules-charlotte-shevchenko-knight/7607613?ean=9781787334892 

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Mark is a poet based in Liverpool and had his debut collection Slide published by Jonathan Cape. He has received a Northern Writers’ Award, a Society of Authors’ Grant, an Eric Gregory Award and an UNESCO international writing residency. Mark is a lecturer at The Open University. 

You can buy Mark’s book here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slide-mark-pajak/6881991?ean=9781787330313 

Mark spoke about Seamus Heaney’s poem Lightening VIII which can be read here: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/8424-poetry-1995-2 

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Helen is a poet based in Liverpool who has published three collections with Carcanet, most recently In the Quaker Hotel. She has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection and the Forward Prize. 

Helen is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University where, amongst other achievements she tutored Gregory during his undergraduate degree.

You can buy Helen’s book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800171824

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Andrew McMillan has published three collections of poetry and his first novel, Pity, was published this year by Canongate. His first collection Physical was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award and his subsequent books have all received critical acclaim. Andrew is a professor in contemporary writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Andrew was one of Gregory’s lecturers during his undergraduate degree at Liverpool John Moores University.

You can buy Andrew’s most recent poetry collection Pandemonium here: www.poetrybookshop.co.uk/product/pandemonium-2/

You can buy Andrew’s most recent book, his debut novel Pity here: www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page/pity-by-andrew-mcmillan

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Joe Carrick-Varty is a poet based in London whose collection More Sky was published by Carcanet and was shortlisted for the TS Elliot Prize. Joe was a founder and editor for the online poetry journal Bath Magg.

You can buy Joe’s book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2453

You can read the back catalogue of issues of Bath Magg here: www.bathmagg.com/ 

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Malika Booker is a poet based in Leeds whose collection Pepper Seeds, published by Peepal Tree Press was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and in 2023 Malika’s poem Libation won the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem. In 2001 Malika founded writing collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and now she is a lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

You can buy Malika’s book here: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/pepper-seed

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