Talking Ink Podcast

Deryn Rees-Jones reads from Erato (Seren) - shortlisted for last year’s T S Eliot Prize - and chats to me about the importance of connecting, the joy to be found in making errors, and how she constructs and weaves a poetry collection.

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

Daljit Nagra reads from his collection British Museum (Faber & Faber) and we talk about British identity, the complex idea of home, and about how to use overlooked British histories as a way to move forward.

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

Poppy Jennings, a writer and artist who performed at this year’s festival with Lucent Dreaming and Goodparley (musician Oli Richards), reads her poem ‘Ars Poetica’. We discuss the path she took to fall in love with poetry, the intimate moments words can create between writer and reader, and the fact that poems can reveal hidden truths we didn’t know about ourselves.

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

Jannat Ahmed, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lucent Dreaming magazine and marketing officer at Poetry Wales, reads me one of her own poems and we talk about her experience as a poetry editor, about how to make something new and, most importantly, how to make it heard.

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

Jannat's poem 'Unscented' will be published in Cheval 13 later this year. You can find more of Jannat's work in the forthcoming issue of Poetry Wales (56.1).

Andre Mangeot reads from his latest collection Blood Rain (Seren) and we chat about how poetry can make us think for ourselves, about the growing need to be aware of what’s happening around us, and the art of transforming words into poems.

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

Marvin Thompson reads from his debut collection Road Trip (Peepal Tree Press) and talks to me about what poetry means to him, what it means to be Black and British, and how home may not always be a comfortable place to live. 

Created and edited by Lucy Smith

Composer: Martyn White

I talk to Emily Cotterill about her pamphlet 'The Day of the Flying Ants' (smith|doorstop) and we chat about what makes a place feel like home, how these feelings can shift, and the importance of making poetry accessible for everyone. 

Created and edited by Lucy Smith 

Composer: Martyn White

The first Talking Ink episode from the Seren Poetry Festival. I talk to Roberto Pastore about his debut collection ‘Hey Bert’ (Parthian) and we discuss finding happiness, the strange power of poetry readings and celebrating the smaller things in life. 

Created and edited by Lucy Smith 

Composer: Martyn White

The third episode of Talking Ink, a podcast for Radio Cardiff. Four writers respond to the theme 'Strangers' and talk about their ideas. 

Created and edited by Lucy Smith 

Composer: Martyn White 

Writers: 

Julie Primon 

Rosey Brown 

Samuel Sargeant 

Taylor Edmonds

In association with Seren Books.

The second episode of Talking Ink, a podcast for Radio Cardiff. Four writers respond to the theme 'Faces' and talk about their ideas. 

This episode contains some strong language. 

Created and edited by Lucy Smith 

Composer: Lawrence Tucker 

Writers: 

Megan Thomas 

Callum Winter 

Siobhan Denton 

D. H.

In association with Seren Books.