The Understory Conversation: Building Connection
Charlotte Gann talks about her new project, The Understory Conversation
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North and South
Rory Waterman talks about his time as international writer in residence for Bucheon UNESCO City of Literature and his commission to write about the border
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Andrew McMillan was commissioned to write a poem for the Nymphs and Thugs Disarm Hate x Poetry project. He talks about how he did it, about the impact of public art, and about how a commission can challenge a poet to make something completely new
Poetry: a lockdown journey
Sophie Buchaillard talks about the Writers on Reading podcast, how poetry can be a real conversation between writer and reader, and about the future of Welsh poetry
Four thrilling new worlds
Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2021
Houses of the poets
Christopher James tells all about his new 'side-hustle' — paper cut-ups of poets houses
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Julia Bird chooses three poems by Michael Donaghy, Eileen Pun and John Keats to take to a desert island
I’d found a home
Steven Lovatt on reading poetry in translation, discovering Czesław Miłosz’s anthology Post-War Polish Poets, and the style and sensibility of Zbigniew Herbert
And lo! the people came
The Live at the Butchery Zoom readings won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Night 2021 (despite being on at four in the afternoon). Hosts Helen Ivory and Martin Figura tell us all about them
What have you done with the blue, beautiful world?
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We have never seen worse
Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever