The Loudcast

This week, Kev sat down with current Scottish Slam champion Jenny Foulds! In our episode, Jenny and Kev discuss creative ownership in artforms, and how the slam and spoken word scene may evolve. We also share amazing poems from Nadine Aisha Jassat, Stuart Kenny, Jim Monaghan, and, of course, Jenny herself! This season of the Loudcast was made possible by the support of the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

It's time for our second episode of Loud Poets Happy Hour, and the first episode in which we share our poems from a challenge! Our very first challenge in this project was to remix poetic cliches. Watch the episode to see how we got on, and vote for the challenge you want us to take on next in the comments below: are you Team Lies (unreliable narrator) or Team Love (love letter between body parts)?

If you'd like to get involved with Happy Hour and help support our future projects, you can go to Patreon.com/IAmLoud and sign up for as little as £1 a month. All of our Patreon supporters get to put a challenge into the Poetic Pint Glass of Poetic Challenges, plus you get lots of other fantastic perks! Thank you so much for your support.

Loud Poets Happy Hour is hosted by Katie Ailes (@KatieAiles) and produced by Bex Sherwood (@bexpoet). You can watch all of our Happy Hour videos at this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPsFOJozvEA&list=PLrqBc7cnm-Ot8Z_YYvJFUti_9-pSLcOG_

Welcome to Episode 1 of our new show, Loud Poets Happy Hour! This is our new biweekly show in which we take on writing challenges and chat poetry.

We had a great time this week discussing writing, inspiration, and debating between our two challenges! To vote on which challenge you would like to see our poets attempt, vote on our Twitter or Instagram polls (@IAmLoudPro). We will announce the winning challenge on Monday 24 May over on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

If you'd like to get involved with Happy Hour and help support our future projects, you can go to Patreon.com/IAmLoud and sign up for as little as £1 a month. All of our Patreon supporters get to put a challenge into the Poetic Pint Glass of Poetic Challenges, plus you get lots of other fantastic perks! Thank you so much for your support.

Loud Poets Happy Hour is hosted by Katie Ailes (@KatieAiles) and produced by Bex Sherwood (@bexpoet). This episode features Kevin Mclean (@kevoutloud), produced by Mark Gallie (@ZaJollyGinger) (all Twitter handles). Special thanks to Sam Bidgood for recording the music used in our intro.

In this episode of The Loudcast we feature one of the Scottish poetry scene's brightest new voices, Courtney Stoddart! Courtney's had a meteoric rise through the spoken word scene, and it was a delight to chat with her about her experiences and current projects. Kevin and Courtney chat about writing in form, being pigeonholed, performing others' work, Scottish exceptionalism, the importance of being unflinching in political writing, and much more. Plus, we feature poetry from Jess Green, Casey Bailey, and Kevin, and of course a poem from Courtney herself.

This season of the Loudcast was made possible by the support of the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

It's our final NaPodcast of NaPoWriMo 2021! In this final episode we allow Kevin Mclean back into the hosting chair as we share our univocal poems and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of this National Poetry Writing Month.

Want to try your hand at a univocal poem? Check out our resources below:

Katie's full-length workshop: https://youtu.be/53FULzVFjDk Univocal poems by Courtney Stoddart & Jo Gilbert: https://youtu.be/9l2L5DUAbTs

We're delighted to feature the multi-talented Cat Hepburn on this episode of The Loudcast! Cat is a Glasgow-based spoken word artist, scriptwriter, actor, and educator, and half of the team producing the event series Sonnet Youth. In this episode, Kevin and Cat chat about how a theatre background informs spoken word practice, translating a piece from book to script to set, onstage persona, and much more. Plus, we feature poetry from Colin Bramwell and Hannah Lavery, a cinepoem from Kevin and filmmaker Perry Jonsson, and of course a poem from Cat herself to round off the show!

This season of the Loudcast was made possible by the support of the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.