Poetry Non-Stop

Poet musician and author Pete Bearder discusses his book Stage Invasion which documents the spoken word scene and oral tradition. Pete is touring a stage show based on the book From Homer to Hip Hop. Pete also challenges you to write a neologism poem – a poem with made up words. http://www.petethetemp.co.uk/ Photo: Ron Fassbender This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with oth...

Rob Auton talks about how he finds poetry in unexpected places. Writing about the everyday, finding beauty in the mundane keeps his fascination with the world alive. He talks about the shows he has written on subjects including water, the sky, sleep and yellow. He also offers an exercise on writing poetry inspired by everyday objects. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

Cambridge-based poet Fay Roberts talks about their recent residency at Peterborough Market for the Syntax Poetry Festival and reads some of the poems that came out of the project. Fay also sets a lemon-based exercise to add some zest to your writing. https://www.facebook.com/FayRobertsPoet/ poetrynonstop.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

Cambridge-based writer and artist talks about his latest project Catching Shadows mixing music and spoken word. He talks about collaborating with artists across borders – artistic and geographical – to create art which is more than the sum of its parts. https://www.facebook.com/catchingshadowss/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

Luke Wright looks back on 20 years of writing and performing poetry. He shares new poems, anecdotes and advice to inspire poets and performers of all levels. www.lukewright.co.uk poetrynonstop.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit poetrynonstop.substack.com

Cambridge-based poet Michael Brown discusses ekphrastic poetry and shares poems inspired by the work of Francis Bacon. He discusses the process of turning pictures into words and invites listeners to try writing an ekphrastic poem. He also reads from his new collection Meet Me at the Harbour coming out on Eyewear. poetbrownie.com Picture by Thom Atkinson This is a public episode. If you would like...

Twenty years after he died, Sally Festing inherited an archive of her father's letters and diaries. Through these she learnt how her aunt and uncle, who she never knew, had been destroyed by schizophrenia. The suffering of his brother and sister drove her father, the neuroscientist Derek Richter, to establish the Mental Health Foundation. Sally talks with familiarity, respect and affection for rel...

Julia Webb reads and discusses poems from her second collection Threat and sets a writing exercise using personal memories This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit poetrynonstop.substack.com

Leanne Moden felt like she’d finally found her place in the world when she accidentally became a teenage goth in rural Norfolk in 2002. In 2019 this became the starting point of her debut show spoken word Skip Skip Skip about finding your identity through music and discovering your tribe. She talks about developing the show and preparing to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe as well as sharing a few...

Alex Russell is a poet, performer and creative entrepreneur. In this final episode in the first series of Poetry Non-Stop he talks about some of his innovations in poetry including poetry in advertising, automatically generating poems with a predictive text bot, looking for love in the lonely hearts ad section of Craigslist and selling poems sealed in jars as poetry preserves. Alex's writing promp...

Avouleance is a writer living in Norwich interested in exploring experiences with mental health difficulties through their writing. When not writing they're studying for a masters in computational chemistry as a hobby. In this episode Avouleance talks about living with autism and related mental health issues and how creative writing helps them express how they see the world. They also explain why...

Jenny Pagdin talks about her experiences of post-natal psychosis which she explores in her pamphlet Caldbeck. She discusses how poetry can convey the inexpressible and reads a few poems. She also sets an exercise for writing a gratitude poem. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit poetrynonstop.substack.com

Award-winning poet and performer Martin Figura talks about how writing about the death of his mother at the hands of his father was the beginning of a journey that changed him as a writer. The result was some of his strongest work in the acclaimed collection and show Whistle. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit p...

Poet and film studies and creative writing lecturer Sue Burge talks about her love of film and poetry and where the two meet. She shares some of her poems which blend classic film imagery, scenes from real life and her vivid imagination and sets a writing exercise that encourages you to take the director's chair as you look back on your life. Sue has a busy schedule of writing workshops and course...

In the summer of 2016 Jamie Osborn, who had just graduated from Cambridge University, went to the Greek Island Chios to work as a volunteer on a refugee camp. He found people not only lacking possessions and a home but basic respect and dignity. On this episode he talks about how he and other volunteers tried to give them their dignity back and shares some of the poems that came out of that experi...