Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 17: Chris Beckett talks to Niall Munro
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the poet, editor and translator Chris Beckett talks to Niall Munro about his latest book, "Tenderfoot". Chris discusses growing up in...
Episode 27: Maurice Riordan
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Maurice Riordan, whose Selected Poems has just been published by Faber. The poems were selected by the poet ...
Episode 26: Helen Calcutt and Hannah Copley
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2024, the writers Helen Calcutt and Hannah Copley visited Oxford Brookes and gave a terrific reading from their latest poetry collections: ...
Episode 25: Ange Mlinko
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ange Mlinko has published six collections of poetry, including Starred Wire, published by Coffee House Press in 2005 and a finalist for the James Laug...
Episode 24: Eric White - bonus material
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this extra mini-episode, which follows on from a longer interview with Dr Eric White, Eric gives us some insight into the Avant-Gardes and Speculat...
Episode 24: Eric White
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second instalment in an occasional series to feature research that colleagues are engaged with at Oxford Brookes University. This episode ...
Episode 23: Dinah Roe talks to Niall Munro
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This latest episode marks something of a departure for the Poetry Centre podcast. If you’re a regular or just occasional listener to this podcast, y...
Episode 22: Leah Umansky talks to Niall Munro
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Umansky is the author of two book-length collections, The Barbarous Century (2018), Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox, 2012), and two chapbooks, S...
Episode 21: Christopher Kempf talks to Niall Munro
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Niall Munro talks with Christopher Kempf about his new collection of poetry, What Though The Field Be Lost, published by Louisiana Sta...
Episode 20: celeste doaks talks to Niall Munro
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
celeste doaks is a poet and journalist. She is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields, a collection of poems published in 2015 by Wrecking Ball Press. ...
Episode 19: Niall O'Gallagher talks to Niall Munro
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Niall Munro talks with the Gaelic poet Niall O’Gallagher. Niall studied and then taught at the University of Glasgow before going o...
Episode 18: Ana Sampson talks to Niall Munro
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the podcast, Ana discusses how she got into editing anthologies, how she goes about putting her anthologies together and making tough decisions abo...
Maya C. Popa talks to Niall Munro
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maya C. Popa is an American poet, researcher, editor, and teacher who has published two pamphlets: The Bees Have Been Canceled in 2017, and You Always...
Doyali Islam talks to Niall Munro
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This interview was recorded in late November 2019 when Doyali visited the UK, and in it Doyali discusses the tensions in her poetry, how her work deal...
Mariah Whelan talks to Niall Munro
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mariah is a poet, teacher and interdisciplinary researcher from Oxford. Her debut collection, a novel-in-sonnets called the love i do to you, was publ...
Peter Bearder talks to Niall Munro
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Bearder may be better known to many as Pete the Temp. A spoken word poet, comic, and musician, Peter has appeared on television and radio, at fe...
James Arthur talks to Niall Munro
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of the Poetry Centre Podcast, Niall Munro talks to James Arthur. James was born in Connecticut and grew up in Toronto. His poems...
An interview with Richard Harrison
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We were delighted to catch up with Canadian poet Richard Harrison recently, who was passing through Oxford en route to Italy where he was to launch a ...
Shara Lessley talks to Niall Munro
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode in a new podcast series, Shara Lessley discusses her poem ‘The Clinic Bomber’s Mother’. The poem comes from Shara’s new ...
The Abandoned House
30 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This latest podcast features a dialogue between Terri Mullholland and Siân Thomas, inspired by Siân’s poem, ‘The Abandoned House’. Amongst oth...
Jo Shapcott - Shifting Territories
26 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Forward Prize and Costa Book Award-winner Jo Shapcott talks about her work. It was recorded at the Shifting Territories conference on ...
Claire Trévien - Whales
10 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Trévien was born in 1985 in Brittany. She is a poet and critic, who completed a PhD on French Revolutionary prints in 2012. Her début collect...
Two sonnets from Essex Coastal
03 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Matthews was born and brought up in Colchester, Essex. Various of his poems have been published in magazines and journals including Stand, Vers...
Alan Buckley - Voicemail
03 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Alan Buckley talks about the nature of poetic influence, the role that breath and the body play in producing poetry, and the responsib...
Gill Learner - The Power of Ice
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gill talks about how she writes poetry and what she considers the role of the poet to be within society. You can read her poem ‘The...
Sisters in Verse - keynote panel discussion
12 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the keynote panel discussion from the Sisters in Verse symposium at Oxford University in association with the Poetry Centre, whi...
Tolstoy at Astapovo Station
03 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of our Oxford Poets series, Claire Cox reads and discusses her prize-winning poem 'Tolstoy at Astapovo Station'.