The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast featuring conversations with poets and writers who have previously appeared as guest readers at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic, held at The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

In this episode, we chat with Kathryn ‘Millie’ Millington, a poet, performer, and activist based in Sheffield. Millie founded and ran the poetry charity Nine Lives Poetry, creating a platform and stage for emerging local poets. She has shared performances with poets including Helen Mort, Michael Pedersen, Toria Garbutt, and Leyla Josephine. Her debut pamphlet, Imprint, received high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah, who said: “I have no words, because you've used them all.”

Our conversation explores Imprint and the deeply moving themes at the heart of the collection, including involuntary childlessness — an experience shaped by Millie’s own personal journey. We discuss the emotions, challenges, and often unspoken experiences surrounding the subject in a thoughtful and honest conversation.

If you’d like to get hold of a copy of Imprint, you can contact Millie directly via @milliethepoet. She is also very open to talking with anyone who has been affected by the issues explored in the episode.

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Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠or check out his work ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast interviewing poets and writers who have previously been guest readers at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

In this episode, we talk to Victoria Gatehouse who is a Zoologist, award-winning poet and children’s writer. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC radio and she has been widely published in magazines including The Rialto and Mslexia. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (Smith|Doorstop) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy.

Victoria has won, and been placed in, many competitions and is also a three-times winner of The Poetry News Members’ Competition. She was highly commended for the Gingko Prize, 2023.

In this episode we talk about her book The Hawthorn Bride, published by Indigo Dreams, which you can buy HERE.

She has subsequently had a book of children's poems published, Aardvark Day by the Emma Press.Follow Gobsh!te, and The Gobful Podcast on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠.

Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his ⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠or check out his work ⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠.

The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast interviewing poets and writers who have previously been guest readers at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Gobson who is a queer, neurodivergent poet from Wigan, living in Manchester, whose debut collection is A love the weight of an animal (Confingo, 2025). Poems have appeared in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher's Dog, Dust, fourteen poems, Lighthouse, Magma, The North, and Under the Radar. Elizabeth has been the recipient of a New North Poets Prize from the Northern Writers Awards and The Poetry School and a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Writing School at MMU. Buy here book HERE.

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Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his ⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠or check out his work ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠.

The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast interviewing poets and writers who have previously been guest readers at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

In this episode, we talk to Michael Conley, a poetry and prose writer from Manchester, UK.  His poetry has appeared in magazines including Rialto, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Strix and Interpreters House, and his first pamphlet, Aquarium, was published by Flarestack.  His work has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prize.  His prose work has been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, and his collection of short stories, 'Flare and Falter', was published by Splice in 2019 and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

In this episode we talk about poems in his latest pamphlet 'These Are Not My Dreams And Anyway Nothing Here Is Purple'. You can order a copy of the booklet here: https://ninepens.co.uk/2022-poets/michael-conley

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Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his ⁠Instagram ⁠or check out his work ⁠HERE⁠.

The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast interviewing poets and writers who have previously been a guest reader at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

In this episode, we talk to Louise Machen about her work. ouise Machen is a widely published Mancunian poet with an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester. She has a collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, with Hedgehog Press, a Forward Prize nominated collection, I Am Not Light, with Black Bough Poetry and a collaborative audiobook of poetry, Which Way the Words Grow.Go check out her website and go buy ger book HERE.

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Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his Instagram or check out his work HERE.