Lunar Poetry Podcasts

Emily Harrison leads a discussion about how creative writing can be used in therapy both within a medical setting and 'in the community'. Emily is joined by Wendy French and Marie Larkin who talk about how their approaches differ and cross-over as well as giving tips to any writers that may be interested in facilitating creative writing workshops for those with mental health problems. A full transcript of this episode can be downloaded here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-92-creative-writing-as-therapy-lpp-transcript.pdf

For more info go to:

https://guccipig.wordpress.com/ - Emily Harrison

www.wendyfrench.co.uk

www.marielarkin.uk

This episode is in two parts. A full transcript of this episode can be downloaded here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-91-matt-abbott-cat-madden-lpp-transcript.pdf

Part one - David Turner talks to Matt Abbott about politics and poetry and his spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs.

http://www.mattabbottpoet.com/

http://www.nymphsandthugs.net/

https://twitter.com/MattAbbottPoet

http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/

Part two (30:37) - David Turner speaks to The Grapevine Zine co-editor, Catherine Madden about the different identities that writers show in their writing and the motivations behind starting an online zine.

https://twitter.com/CatherineEMIMad

http://thegrapevinezine.com/

https://twitter.com/thgrapevinezine

This episode is three parts:

Part one - David Turner talks to American poet Savon Bartley about how he got started with spoken word, teaching in the States and his impressions of the UK poetry scene.

www.savonbartley.com

https://www.facebook.com/savonbartley/?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/SavonBartley

Part two (31:43) - David Turner chats with Belinda Zhawi about the role of Associate Poet at the ICA in London and writing as part of a collective.

http://mamoyobornfree.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Belinda-Zhawi-162606697272034/?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/MamoyoBornFree

Part three (59:38) - David Turner talks to Travis Alabanza about their role as Artist in Residence at Tate Britain and moving back toward acting after a few years as a solo performer.

https://www.facebook.com/travisalabanzaartist/?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/travisalabanza

Download a transcript of this episode here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ep90-savon-bartley-belinda-zhawi-travis-alabanza-transcript.pdf

Harry Giles is in conversation with poets Abi Palmer and Andra Simons about what accessibility in the arts means to them, how it informs their practice and the obligations on arts organisers when using the term. A full transcript of the conversation is available to download as a PDF here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-89-accessibility-in-the-arts-lpp-transcript.pdf

For more info see:

Harry Giles -

https://harrygiles.org/

https://twitter.com/HarryGiles

Andra Simons -

https://andrasimons.wordpress.com/

Abi Palmer -

http://meetmytongue.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/abipalmer_bot

https://www.facebook.com/meetmytongue/?fref=ts

This episode is in three parts:

Part One - David Turner is in Haggerston, London to talk to Hannah Silva about her solo show Schlock! which runs until 26/11/2016. The pair discuss the writing of Kathy Acker, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey and accessibility in theatres.

www.hannahsilva.co.uk

www.twitter.com/HannahSilvaUK

www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk

Part Two (27:14) - David Turner is in Lambeth, south London chatting to poet Nick Makoha about professionalism, Nick's own development as a writer and poetry's place in society.

www.nickmakoha.com

www.twitter.com/NickMakoha

www.fathersuperhero.com

www.twitter.com/FatherSuperhero

www.peepaltreepress.com

www.twitter.com/peepaltreepress

Part Three (56:16)- David Turner talks to comedian, musician and poet, John Hegley. Songs, poems, biscuits and coffee.....

www.johnhegley.co.uk

www.twitter.com/JohnHegley

Download a transcript of this episode here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ep88-hannah-silva-nick-makoha-john-hegley-transcript.pdf

David Turner is at PAPER Arts in Bristol talking to local poet Rebecca Tantony, poet and lecturer at Bath Spa University Lucy English and founder of Burning Eye Books, Clive Birnie. The quartet discuss the spoken word scene in Bristol and Bath compared to the rest of the UK as well as reading a few poems.

A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-87-bristol-bath-lpp-transcript.pdf

For more info see:

Rebecca -

www.twitter.com/RebeccaTantony

www.rebecca-tantony.com

http://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/talk-you-round-till-dusk-by-rebecca-tantony-with-illustrations-by-anna-higgie

s://www.facebook.com/AllthejourneysInevertook/?fref=ts

Lucy -

www.twitter.com/Lucyenglish1

http://www.lucyenglish.com/

http://thebookofhours.org/

Clive -

https://twitter.com/clivebirnie

https://www.instagram.com/clivebirnie/

http://www.clivebirnie.com

https://twitter.com/BurningEyeBooks

https://www.instagram.com/BurningEyeBooks/

http://www.burningeye.co.uk

David Turner is at PAPER Arts in Bristol talking to local poet Rebecca Tantony, poet and lecturer at Bath Spa University Lucy English and founder of Burning Eye Books, Clive Birnie. The quartet discuss the spoken word scene in Bristol and Bath compared to the rest of the UK as well as reading a few poems.

For more info see:

Rebecca -

www.twitter.com/RebeccaTantony

www.rebecca-tantony.com

http://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/talk-you-round-till-dusk-by-rebecca-tantony-with-illustrations-by-anna-higgie

s://www.facebook.com/AllthejourneysInevertook/?fref=ts

Lucy -

www.twitter.com/Lucyenglish1

http://www.lucyenglish.com/

http://thebookofhours.org/

Clive -

https://twitter.com/clivebirnie

https://www.instagram.com/clivebirnie/

http://www.clivebirnie.com

https://twitter.com/BurningEyeBooks

https://www.instagram.com/BurningEyeBooks/

http://www.burningeye.co.uk

Download a transcript of this episode here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ep86-lpp-transcript.pdf

This episode is in three parts:

Part 1 - David Turner is in south London talking to poet and musician, Carlos (Emlyn) Maurizio Rojas. They talk about identity, queerness and the passing on of stories as the child of an immigrant. Carlos reads three poems.

Part 2 (28:38) - Lizzy Palmer talks to Nadia Drews about her writing and how that practice finds a place in her life sitting beside politics and music. Nadia reads three poems.

Part 3 (59:51) - David Turner meets up with Swedish/Scottish spoken word artist Agnes Torok to chat about the release of her new book Happiness is an Artform (Burning Eye Books), the differences between UK and Swedish spoken word and beginning to write again in Swedish.

www.agnestorok.org

www.facebook.com/AgnesTorokPoetry

www.twitter.com/AgnesTorokPoet

www.soundcloud.com/agnes-torok

www.patreon.com/AgnesTorokPoet

This episode is in three parts:

Part 1 - David Turner is in south London talking to poet and musician, Emlyn Maurizio. They talk about identity, queerness and the passing on of stories as the child of an immigrant. Emlyn reads three poems.

Part 2 (28:38) - Lizzy Palmer talks to Nadia Drews about her writing and how that practice finds a place in her life sitting beside politics and music. Nadia reads three poems.

Part 3 (59:51) - David Turner meets up with Swedish/Scottish spoken word artist Agnes Torok to chat about the release of her new book Happiness is an Artform (Burning Eye Books), the differences between UK and Swedish spoken word and beginning to write again in Swedish.

www.agnestorok.org

www.facebook.com/AgnesTorokPoetry

www.twitter.com/AgnesTorokPoet

www.soundcloud.com/agnes-torok

www.patreon.com/AgnesTorokPoet

This episode is in three parts:

Part one - David Turner is at Oslo Literaturhuset speaking to local poet Maria Dorothea Schrattenholz. The pair discuss the influence that science fiction has had over her work. Image of Maria by Carsten Aniksdal.

http://www.oktober.no/Forfattere/Norske/Schrattenholz-Maria-Dorothea

https://soundcloud.com/soundafrica/7-special-african-space-the-live-documentary

Part two (33:04) - David Turner talks to, recent, Forward Poetry Prize nominee Melissa Lee-Houghton. The pair discuss all manner of things and there is some rude language in this section.

https://melissaleehoughton.wordpress.com/

http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/category/authors/melissa-lee-houghton/

https://twitter.com/mleehoughton

Part three (01:15:05) - Two recordings taken from the “Rest & its Discontents” exhibition at Mile End Pavilion. First is a piece for three voices devised by James Wilkes called “and I remember a feeling of tightness on the skin…”. This work is based on transcripts of interviews about three people’s experiences of a poetry reading. The transcripts have been organised into a score that explores the ways in which speech elaborates moments of experience, bringing them into being through the work of the voice and through a kind of digestion, of chewing over, which is shared, public and provisional. The second recording (1:31:33) is Emma Bennett’s “SHIFT”. “SHIFT” is a composition drawn from a night-long navigation through a neglected iTunes account. What should be a curated collection of self-defining music is, on this battered laptop, an accidental archive of an artistic practice: stocked with fragments of performance, attempted bird imitations, recorded conversations, and cheap sound effects. “SHIFT” shuffles, impetuous and fascinated, through this database, using indecision, boredom and defiant shamelessness as compositional techniques.

https://twitter.com/wilkesjames

https://twitter.com/emmbenn

http://hubbubresearch.org/

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/first-thursdays/galleries/art-pavilion/

A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-85-maria-schrattenholz-melissa-lee-houghton-lpp-transcript.pdf