Poetry Worth Hearing

The theme for this episode was 'games people play' and I received poems about all sorts of games, from chess to football to Monopoly. Many writers went back to the past and childhood to find their games. Rather surprisingly, I didn't get anything about online or video gaming although Lizzie Ballagher does take us into the digital world with her 'Cyber Pirates' . Of course, there were also many poems about the games, not always benevolent, that people play with each other. T

The 35th episode of Poetry Worth Hearing had as its prompt 'making up'. As ever, I hoped poets would interpret this as widely as they...

This is the 34th episode of Poetry Worth Hearing and the last before the summer. It opens with an interview from Theophilus Kwek, whose...

This episode opens with a selection of poems from David Constantine's A Bird Called Elaeus, introduced and read by the author. Many...

This episode features an interview with Phoebe Nicholson, poet and founder of the Oxford Poetry Library. The prompt or theme for the...

In this episode, you can hear Tony Curtis, the distinguished Welsh poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at South Wales...

The prompt for this episode was rule-making and/or rule breaking, an idea which occurred to me after reading a sonnet sequence by Claire...

The prompt for this episode was 'Words and music, perhaps', a misquote from W B Yeats who was himself, reputedly, tone deaf. I have...

This episode had the theme of 'losing and/or finding'. Perhaps not surprisingly, I received more poems of loss than of discovery. Some...

The theme for this episode was 'canonical'. I was hoping for a range of poems which would either celebrate the traditional canon of...

This episode features an interview with Northern Ireland poet, Matthew Rice, where he talks about his jurney in poetry and gives a short...

This episode will be the last before the autumn, and also the last before the general election. Appropriately, therefore, the theme this...

The theme for this episode is 'other' and so I asked Jane Burn, who describes herself as working class, neurodivergent, pansexual and who...

This episode features an interview with Ruba Abughaida who is part Palestinian, part Lebanese. Her poems reflect the struggles of the...

This episode features Cahal Dallat, poet, critic and musician, talking about W.B.Yeats in his capacity as founder-organiser of the WB...

In this episode we hear Aleksander Mazey read from his forthcoming collection, Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition. Alex's two previously...

This is the twentieth episode of Poetry Worth Hearing which feels pretty remarkable. Also remarkable are the poems and poets you will...