The Seren Poetry Podcast

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.  In this edition we speak with poet and veterinary surgeon Ilse Pedler. Ilse lives and works in the Lake District trying to juggle writing with the unpredictability of sick animals. ‘ Auscultation’ means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that come from the body’s internal organs...

Our ninth preview podcast features the poem ‘The Young Man and the Fox’  by Ilse Pedler from her Seren collection ‘Auscultation’.  The reader is Ilse Pedler and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.  Listen to our in-depth interview with Ilse in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 12th October.  The Seren Poetry Podc...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we speak with Polly Atkin about her startlingly original second collection ‘Much With Body’. The beauty of the Lake District is both balm and mirror, refracting pain and also soothing it with distraction: unusual descriptions of frogs, birds, a great stag that ‘you will not see’. Much of t...

We would like to thank Wordsworth Grasmere for hosting three of our interviews in the first series of The Seren Poetry Podcast. We recorded our chats with Kim Moore, Ilse Pedler and our opening podcast with Polly Atkin in the Learning Centre at Grasmere. In this special bonus edition we chat with Melissa Mitchell, one of the curators at Wordsworth Grasmere about the centre, its work and its releva...

Our seventh  preview podcast features ‘Iya : the mother of many children’ from the  Seren collection ‘Homelands’ read and introduced by Eric Ngalle Charles.  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’l...

Our sixth preview podcast features ‘I Dream I'm The Death of Jeff Buckley’ by Ben Wilkinson from the Seren collection ‘Same Difference’.  The reader is Ben Wilkinson and the poem was recorded on location at Ben’s home in Sheffield 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, w...

Our fifth preview podcast features the poem ‘Auscultation’ by Ilse Pedler from the Seren collection of the same name. The reader is Ilse Pedler and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.  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 t...

Our fourth preview podcast features the poem ‘Steampunk Jungle’  by Christopher Meredith  from the Seren collection ‘Still’.  The reader is Christopher Meredith and the poem was recorded at Seren’s offices in Bridgend.  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 technique...

Our third preview podcast includes the poem ‘All the Men I Never Married number 35’  by Kim Moore from Kim’s Forward Prize shortlisted collection ‘All the Men I Never Married’. The reader is Kim Moore and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere.  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 wo...

Our first preview podcast includes the poem ‘Full Wolf Moon’ by Polly Atkin from her Seren collection ‘Much With Body’.  The reader is Polly Atkin and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere.  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 insp...

Our second preview podcast features the poem ‘The Telling’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke from her Seren collection ‘We Have to Leave the Earth’.  The reader is Carolyn Jess-Cooke and the poem was recorded on location at Carolyn’s home outside Glasgow.  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 infl...

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 Books 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 influen...