Ep.104 - Wrexham (transcript available)

This episode is in two parts:

Part 1 - David turner is in Wrexham, north Wales talking to Young People's Laureate of Wales, Sophie McKeand. The pair discuss her role as YPLoW with Literature Wales, her educational work and why politics features so heavily in her writing. Sophie reads three poems from her debut collection, Rebel Sun:

'Paper News' - (00:02:19)

'Rebel Sun' - (00:17:27)

'From The Ashes (00:30:45)

Part 2 (00:31:52) - David Turner briefly chats to Tim Humphrey-Jones and Natasha Borton about their regular spoken word night, Voice Box Spoken Word which takes place at Undegun Arts space in Wrexham. A selection of performers from the night follow this chat including the feature act for the evening, Tukaiisloveletter;

Pat Edwards, 'Facelift' -(00:39:46)

Graham Weaver, 'Runaways' - (00:41:10); 'Wrexham Baths' - (00:42:12)

Lucid, 'BEATBOXING' - (00:42:52)

Evrah Rose, 'Slithering' - (00:47:40)

Natasha Borton, 'Dminor7th' - (00:49:45)

Tukaiisloveletter, Feature Act - (00:53:53)

A transcript of this episode is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-with-sophie-mckeand-and-voicebox-wrexham-lpp-transcript-ep104.pdf