Ep 12. Pete Bearder & Stage Invasion: Poetry and the Spoken Word Renaissance
In episode 12 of the Verse First Poetry Podcast. I chat to Pete 'the temp' Bearder about Stage invasion: Poetry and the spoken word renaissance. While...
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Verse First is a monthly Podcast hosted by writer and poet Adrian B Earle (AkA Think/Write/Fly) and produced and edited by Kallen Daynes and Gavin Randhawa, exploring the themes that resonate in contemporary poetry. Audio essays featuring interviews with your next favourite poet on the creation of their work, the craft of verse. These musings on verse are accompanied by unique studio readings of some of the most fantastic artists of both page and stage.
Episode 11: Roy McFarlane, Writing from the Margins & The Healing Next Time
ThinkWriteFly sits down with Poet Roy McFarlane, talking about the role of the community poet His latest collection 'the Healing Next Time', What it m...
Ep 10. Verve Poetry Festival Throwback pt 2
Were Back! with Episode 10, Part 2 of the Verve Poetry Festival. with chats and poems from Momtaza Mehri, Theresa Lola, Sophie Collins, Vani Capildeo ...
Ep 9: Besharam Deep Dive with Nafeesa Hamid
This Episode I sat down with the fantastic Nafeesa Hamid to do a Deep dive on her Collection Besharam and get real about the process of writing poems ...
Ep 8: Verve Poetry Festival Throwback
In episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendour that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre ...
Ep 7: Poetry of Protest pt.3: Poets Against Racism
We went to Wolverhampton Literary Festival to record with Poets Against Racism, a grassroots artivist group using spoken word to challenge divisive di...
Ep 6: Poetry Of Protest Part 2 - Grim Chip and The Picket Line poets
In Episode 6 of the Pod, we sat down with Grim Chip of the picket line poets to talk the movement. The poetry of the Political and whether verse makin...
Ep 5: The Bad Boy Poet: The Self In Verse Part 2
This Episode we continue the exploration of confessional verse in a Sit down with Scott Manley Hadley 'The bad boy poet' talking Masculinity, love, Pi...
Ep 4: Poetry As Psychogeography Pt1
This month we sit down with Dr Angela France and talk poets as Psychogeographers, the Act of capturing the 'Truth' of a place with methods dreamt up b...
Ep 3: The Poetry Of Protest Part 1: Leader of the Opposition
On our Third Episode, We sit Down with Political poet Jess Green, ask her about why she takes on Parliament with poems. Why the politics of the left s...