Lunar Poetry Podcasts

This episode is in three parts:

Part 1 - Thomas "Ghetto Geek" Owoo is at Poetry at the PAD in Dagenham. We hear three poems from his feature set before he is joined on stage by the evening's host, The Repeat Beat Poet, and they chat about his writing practice.

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Part 2 (31:42)- David Turner is talking to poet and performer Andra Simons about identity and how this informs his writing. Image of Andra taken by Joao Trindade.

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Part 3 (1:06:34)- A recording taken from the 20th anniversary celebrations of the weekly open-mic night Poetry Unplugged. The night (and this part of the episode) was broken into three sections.

Section 1 -

(1:07:49) Paul Birtill

(1:09:01) Dean Wilson

(1:10:09) Tim Wells

(1:11:20) Jason King

(1:13:49) Tamsin Kendrick

(1:15:59) Jon Citizen

Section 2 -

(1:17:15) Graham Buchan

(1:18:40) Deryll Walsh

(1:19:50) John Stiles

(1:21:11) Jeremy Quinn

(1:22:38) Project Adorno

(1:23:58) Carl Dhiman

Section 3 -

(1:25:43) Joshua Idehen

(1:29:27) Nadia Drews

(1:33:02) Anna Kahn

(1:36:23) The Bros Grim

(1:37:26) Niall O'Sullivan

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A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-with-andra-simons-thomas-owoo-lpp-transcript-ep84.pdf

In celebration of National Poetry Day 2016 (UK) we invited ten poets to read a favourite poem to go out as a special episode. The readings are as follows:

00:00 - David Turner reads "Hairdresser" by Emma Hammond.

04:16 - Sarah Fletcher reads "Incubus" by Frances Leviston.

09:08 - Rachel Long reads "The News" by Arda Collins.

10:39 - The Repeat Beat Poet reads "Down to a Tea" by Spike Zepahania Stephenson.

13:10 - Nadia Drews reads "The Centre Ground" by Niall O'Sullivan.

15:27 - Mishi Morath reads "Slough" by Atilla The Stockbroker.

17:25 - Lizzy Palmer reads "Give Me No Love" by The Bros. Grim.

20:41 - Anna Kahn reads "Poem After Frida Kahlo's Painting - The Broken Column" by Eduardo C. Corral.

24:27 - Travis Alabanza reads "Frank Ocean and all Black things that disappear" by Jonathan Jacob Moore.

25:37 - Melissa Lee-Houghton reads "Enter Cain" by Luke Kennard.

Artist, Paula Varjack is joined by writer & activist Liv Wynter and poet Dan Simpson to discuss the realities of getting paid as an artist. They talk about their own experiences of talking to other artists about financial matters and whether there is a need for greater transparency when it comes to fees and financial support.

A full transcript of this conversation is available to download as a PDF here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-82-show-me-the-money-lpp-transcript.pdf

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Liv Wynter:

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Dan Simpson:

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Sisters Uncut:

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Planet Money Podcast:

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Harry Giles:

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David Turner is at the Blue Walnut Cafe in Torquay talking to host of Poetry Island, Ian Beech ahead of his feature set at the monthly open-mic event. The pair have a brief chat before we hear from each of the open-mic performers and close with three poems from Ian himself. See below for the times of the individual performers.

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08:50 - Robert Garnham

11:39 - Paul Mortimer

12:47 - Ellie Davis

14:10 - Rich Green

15:45 - Rosie Stewart

17:02 - Ken Beavers

19:25 - Chrissy Banks

20:56 - Nick Kitto

22:35 - Rose Cook

23:23 - Graham Burchell

24:45 - Ian Beech

In this episode we talk to three young poets. In the first interview you'll hear Lizzy Palmer chatting with spoken word artist and playwright Suzie Gray. The second section (17:00) has David Turner talking to Peter DeGraft-Johnson, a.k.a The Repeat Beat Poet, in south London. The final conversation (52:37) takes place in Oslo between David Turner and Norwegian poet and performance artist Marthe Ramm Fortun.

A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-with-suzie-gray-repeat-beat-poet-lpp-transcript-ep81.pdf

For more info about our guests follow these links:

Suzie - www.suziegeeforce.co.uk www.twitter.com/Suzie_Gee

Peter - www.howlingonthebeat.tumblr.com www.twitter.com/RepeatBeatPoet

Marthe - www.martherammfortun.com

This episode is a live recording of a set I was asked to organise for poet, Tim Wells' annual summer "poetry-all-dayer" at the Betsey Trotwood pub on Farringdon Road in London. This was the first time I was using our new recording equipment so the sound quality isn't the best but we're ironing out these issues. Here are the readers and their start times:

Paul McMenemy - 03:50

Michelle Madsen - 12:30

Kadeem Beresford-James - 23:39

Lizzy Palmer - 29:40

Donald Chegwin - 39:55

David Turner - 48:15

Jacob Sam-La Rose is joined by Miriam Nash and Keith Jarrett to discuss poetry education in schools. They talk about the practicalities of getting projects into schools as well as lessons they've learned along the way. This episode is in two parts.

A full transcript of this conversation is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-78-poetry-in-schools-part-two-lpp-transcript.pdf

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Jacob:

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Miriam:

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Keith:

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Jacob Sam-La Rose is joined by Miriam Nash and Keith Jarrett to discuss poetry education in schools. They talk about the practicalities of getting projects into schools as well as lessons they've learned along the way. This episode is in two parts. Accompanying image of Jacob by Sam Burnett.

A full transcript is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-77-poetry-in-schools-part-one-lpp-transcript.pdf

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Jacob:

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Miriam:

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Keith:

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July 2016. A transcript of this conversation is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-76-olmo-lazarus-lpp-transcript.pdf

David Turner talks to poet and teacher Ölmo Lazarus. The pair discuss trying to engage with drinkers by taking poetry into pubs in Essex and taking poetry slams into primary schools in Basildon. Ölmo reads three poems.

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Download a transcript of this conversation here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ep75-english-pen-transcript.pdf

June 2016. Paul McMenemy talks to Cat Lucas and Robert Sharp from English PEN about writers at risk. Includes readings of translations of poetry by Ashraf Fayadh and Liu Xia, as well as Andrew McMillan’s poem in response to Ashraf’s work, recorded at the Modern Literature Festival.

(00:00:58) - Cat Lucas reads, 'A space in the void' by Ashraf Fayadh (trans. Jonathon Wright)

(00:20:54) - Andrew McMillan reads, 'Week of living blasphemously'

(00:42:53) - Paul McMenemy reads, 'June 2nd 1989' by Liu Xia (trans. Ming Di and Jennifer Stern)

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Writers in translation: http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/

PEN at the Ledbury Festival: https://www.englishpen.org/campaigns/english-pen-at-the-ledbury-poetry-festival-2016/

Modern Literature Festival videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/fowlerpoetry

Poetry by Ashraf Fayadh in English: https://arablit.org/?s=Ashraf+Fayadh&x=0&y=0

Poetry by Liu Xia in English: https://pen.org/poetry/five-poems-liu-xia