Love the Words

Keith Fenton, co-founder and presenter of the podcast Poets Talking Bollocks, talks bollocks to LTW about this ambitious audio project mapping the northern open mic scene.

Catherine Staples talks to LTW from Massachusetts, USA, about Vert, her beautiful new poetry collection, an elegy for her beloved brother Paul Calello. Can poetry help us grieve? https://www.amazon.com/Vert-Poems-Catherine-Staples/dp/0881469211

Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here, in this final LTW of Season 6 (returning in September) Rob talks about The Heeding, his moving collection of lockdown poems.

Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their lively & uplifting Kuluhenna Drama group for women.

A 3-item LTW: Orb present their mini-bus-dramas, plus another chance to hear Melissa Wuidart Phillips' story 'Found', and an interview with the wise & extraordinary Philip Harvey.

Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners (Mafwa Theatre) and others. This installation was part of Chapel FM's Home From Home 2024 project in which all our available spaces at Chapel FM Arts Centre were animated by a range of sound, theatre, and music created by participants.

Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's brand new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.

Gareth E. Rees talks about Car Park Life, his epic exploration of Britain's neglected retail car parks, the book chosen for the Chapel FM/Leeds Lit Fest Readathon 2024.

Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on naturism, being proud as a multi-form artist, and his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.

Poet Lydia Kennaway talks with fellow poet Emma Storr about Sh@nty, her fascinating collaboration with folk musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, and reads poems about betrayal, loss, and recovery.