Poetry Non-Stop

Poet musician and author Pete Bearder discusses his book Stage Invasion which documents the spoken word scene and oral tradition. Pete is touring a stage show based on the book From Homer to Hip Hop. Pete also challenges you to write a neologism poem – a poem with made up words.

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Rob Auton talks about how he finds poetry in unexpected places. Writing about the everyday, finding beauty in the mundane keeps his fascination with the world alive. He talks about the shows he has written on subjects including water, the sky, sleep and yellow. He also offers an exercise on writing poetry inspired by everyday objects.

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Cambridge-based poet Fay Roberts talks about their recent residency at Peterborough Market for the Syntax Poetry Festival and reads some of the poems that came out of the project.
Fay also sets a lemon-based exercise to add some zest to your writing.

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Cambridge-based writer and artist talks about his latest project Catching Shadows mixing music and spoken word. He talks about collaborating with artists across borders – artistic and geographical – to create art which is more than the sum of its parts.

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Luke Wright looks back on 20 years of writing and performing poetry. He shares new poems, anecdotes and advice to inspire poets and performers of all levels.

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Cambridge-based poet Michael Brown discusses ekphrastic poetry and shares poems inspired by the work of Francis Bacon. He discusses the process of turning pictures into words and invites listeners to try writing an ekphrastic poem. He also reads from his new collection Meet Me at the Harbour coming out on Eyewear.

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Twenty years after he died, Sally Festing inherited an archive of her father's letters and diaries. Through these she learnt how her aunt and uncle, who she never knew, had been destroyed by schizophrenia. The suffering of his brother and sister drove her father, the neuroscientist Derek Richter, to establish the Mental Health Foundation. Sally talks with familiarity, respect and affection for relatives she got to know largely through studying her father's records. Her poems vividly capture the lives of people whose suffering led to greater understanding and support for those suffering mental illness.

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Julia Webb reads and discusses poems from her second collection Threat and sets a writing exercise using personal memories

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Leanne Moden felt like she’d finally found her place in the world when she accidentally became a teenage goth in rural Norfolk in 2002. In 2019 this became the starting point of her debut show spoken word Skip Skip Skip about finding your identity through music and discovering your tribe. She talks about developing the show and preparing to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe as well as sharing a few poems.

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Alex Russell is a poet, performer and creative entrepreneur. In this final episode in the first series of Poetry Non-Stop he talks about some of his innovations in poetry including poetry in advertising, automatically generating poems with a predictive text bot, looking for love in the lonely hearts ad section of Craigslist and selling poems sealed in jars as poetry preserves.

Alex's writing prompt is to identify and exploitable market and exploit it through poetry using one of Alex's ideas or one of your own. Patrick responds with an advert for a popular soft drink in the form of a villanelle.

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