Poet Peter Bakowski brings the novelist's gaze to the art of writing poetry about fictional characters. In this wide-ranging conversation, Peter talks about his incredible forty year career as a poet including the experience of having his poetry widely translated and organising poetry tours. He talks about poetry as sculpture, finding the right way into the subject matter, engaging the reader and the importance of the 3 Ps. 

Listen to Magdalena Ball read her poem, Eastern Whip Bird, and then learn all about the poetic techniques of alliteration and caesura as well as the use of punctuation in a poem. You can find Magdalena at www.magdalenaball.com.

Content warning: death

Australian poet Andy Jackson joins us on the Pocketry Presents podcast to talk about his creative process and experience of editing literary journals. Join us to hear about expressing the social element of poetry, the challenges and rewards of being commissioned as well as visible differences, otherness and marginality.

Pocketry Presents is back in 2022 with more poets and poetry goodness for your listening pleasure!

Season Two features more of what you've come to expect including interviews with established poets about their creative process, emerging poets reading their work, analysis of featured poems and new books to inspire and illuminate.

Brought to you by Pocketry, champion of unheard voices and home to the pocket-sized print journal, The Pocketry Almanack. 

Content warning: Domestic violence and CPTSD

Pocketry Presents is back with a special episode featuring the poets and artists published in Issue 5 of the Pocketry Almanack!

Tune in to hear the published poets reading their poems as well as artist Tegan Iversen describing her artwork and the inspiration behind the piece. You'll also hear some intriguing words that were bartered for a copies of the Almanack.

Poets featured in this episode: Freya Alexander, Paul Barrett, Tiph Harris, T. J. Kloprogge and Kira West.

Thank you to all the poets who appeared in the very first season of Pocketry Presents. It's been a whirlwind five months of poetry, stories, words, interviews and poetic techniques. And a big thank you to all you lovely listeners for tuning in - it's been wonderful to share poetry with you!

Content warning: drug reference, toxic relationships, torture, war

Pocketry Presents is back with a special episode featuring the poets and artists published in Issue 4 of the Pocketry Almanack! Tune in to hear poetry in English as well as Burmese. Learn how we've managed to cram in even more art with stunning pieces from artists Meg Doller and Shirley Kanyon as well as art from one of the poets for this issue. You'll also hear some intriguing words that were bartered for a copies of the Almanack.

Poets featured in this episode: Kris Deminick, Caleb Green, Thinn Thinn Khine, Anna Kochetkova, and Nidhi Rao.

Pocketry interrupts the scheduled episodes for this season to bring you a special announcement for emerging and aspiring poets wanting to get their poetry published.

In this masterclass on the art of spoken word performance, Thabani Tshuma talks about terror and excitement, empowerment and nerves, feelings and nuances, dangerous spaces and diary dumps, duty of care to an audience, curating a feature set, stage presence and theatricality, writing for page vs stage, poems as mini plays, memorising and rehearsing, forgetting lines and improvising, the open mic testing ground, audience as editing partner, trust, getting featured and remembering your why.

Zimbabwean spoken word artist and poet, Thabani Tshuma on learning to use the medium, writing when there's time, non-linear writing and starting in the middle, figuring out where in the poem you are and what it needs, performance as an editing tool, poetry as an oral art form, editing as part of the creative process, not writing enough vs always writing, watching tv and talking to friends as part of the process, capitalist grind culture, the need for introspection, the intersection of art and commerce, funding and quantifying the arts, the worth of a poem and a tip for writing.