The Poetry Society
Episodes
Jane Yeh talks to Sarah Howe
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The prize-wining American poet Jane Yeh, author of Marabou and The Ninjas (both Carcanet) talks to Sarah Howe, co-editor of the winter issue of The Po...
Jacob Polley reads 'Applejack' from Jackself
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Polley reads his poem 'Applejack' from his latest Jackself, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016. The poem was first published in The Poetry Revi...
Jacob Polley talks to Kayo Chingonyi
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Polley, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016, talks to Kayo Chingonyi, co-editor of the autumn issue of The Poetry Review, about his Eliot prize-...
Basil Bunting: a discussion by Don Share, Paul Batchelor and Matthew Sperling
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Writing in The Poetry Review, Paul Batchelor described the publication of The Poems of Basil Bunting (Faber), edited by Don Share, as “a major event...
Joelle Taylor in conversation with Sabrina Mahfouz
25 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
SLAMbassadors Artistic Director Joelle Taylor speaks to poet Sabrina Mahfouz in this Poetry Society podcast, to discuss How You Might Know Me, Sabrina...
Joelle Taylor in conversation with Salena Godden
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joelle Taylor chats to spoken word artist Salena Godden about the UK's spoken word poetry scene, past present and future, as well as her experience wi...
Jen Hadfield on Maria Merian, death and her poem 'The Lantern Fly'
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Hadfield was commissioned by The Poetry Society and the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, to write her poem, ‘The Lantern Fly’, inspired b...
Jen Hadfield reads 'The Lantern Fly'
20 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Jen Hadfied's entrancing reading of her new poem, 'The Lantern Fly', commissioned by The Poetry Society and the Royal Collection Trust, and ...
Emily Berry talks to Maurice Riordan
05 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Berry, who will jointly edit the summer 2016 issue of The Poetry Review, talks to Maurice Riordan about taste, humour and subverting conventiona...
Frank Ormsby talks to Maurice Riordan
17 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Ormsby was Editor of The Honest Ulsterman during one of the most illustrious phases of Irish poetry. He talks about the involvement of poets suc...
Iain Galbraith discusses translating ‘December 1914’ by Jan Wagner
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Iain Galbraith reads ‘December 1914’ from his Popescu Prize winning translation of Jan Wagner’s collection Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, p...
Iain Galbraith reads ‘December 1914’ by Jan Wagner
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Galbraith reads ‘December 1914’ in the original German and from his Popescu Prize winning translation of Jan Wagner’s collection Self-Portra...
Anne Stokes discusses translating Sarah Kirsch and reads ‘Earth’
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Stokes reads ‘Earth’ from her Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Sarah Kirsch’s collection Ice Roses: Selected Poems, published by Ca...
David Constantine reads ‘When I Left You, Afterwards…’ by Bertolt Brecht
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
David Constantine reads ‘When I Left You, Afterwards…’ from his Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Bertolt Brecht’s collection Love Poem...
Tom Kuhn reads ‘Discovery about a Young Woman’ by Bertolt Brecht
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Kuhn reads ‘Discovery about a Young Woman’ from his Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Bertolt Brecht’s collection Love Poems, publish...
Susan Wicks reads ‘The Poems for Jacques’ by Valérie Rouzeau
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Wicks reads ‘The Poem for Jacques’ from her Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Valérie Rouzeau’s collection Talking Vrouz, publishe...
Helen Mort talks to Editor Maurice Riordan
10 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Mort talks to Maurice Riordan about writing and the problem of observation; Jeremy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave and her poem ‘Scab’; writin...
After Awater: Jane Draycott on an enigmatic masterpiece
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
‘Awater’, written by Martinus Nijhoff in 1934, is considered the great Dutch modernist poem. Hailed by Brodsky as “the future of poetry”, it i...
Paul Nemser on the National Poetry Competition
04 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
US poet Paul Nemser was delighted to have been commended in the The Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition – "an opportunity to have one's wor...
Zaffar Kunial talks to Maurice Riordan
13 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm struck by the meaninglessness of words, how slippery they are and yet I also want to believe in them. I'm left stuck between the two." Zaffar Kun...
Atlantic Exchange: Don Share talks to Maurice Riordan
03 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Don Share, editor of Poetry, talks to Maurice Riordan, editor of The Poetry Review, about their magazines' latest exchange of American and British poe...
Kevin Patrick McCarthy - Enough Sky
12 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
'Enough Sky' was commended in The Poetry Society's 2014 National Poetry Competition. From the judges: 'From the start, 'Enough Sky' impresses with it...
'May Books Be Your Courage' by Orla Owen, YPN Reading Agency mini writing comp winner
12 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Orla was one of the winners of the Young Poets Network mini writing competition with the Reading Agency, to write a poem about reading. http://www.you...
Kei Miller reads 'Place Name: Oracabessa'
17 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Working in collaboration with Royal Collection Trust, The Poetry Society commissioned Forward Prize winning poet Kei Miller to create a new poem. Pl...
Paul Muldoon talks to Maurice Riordan
05 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Many writers write not because they're fluent or because they have any kind of ability in a language but for the exact opposite reason." Paul Muldoon...
Kim Addonizio talks to Maurice Riordan
02 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
US poet Kim Addonizio talks to Maurice Riordan, Editor of The Poetry Review, about riffing on the canon and traditional forms, her view that "emotiona...
'Dissolving into Crazy' by Rose Swainston, YPN Edith Sitwell challenge winner
11 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Rose was one of the winners of the Young Poets Network Edith Sitwell challenge. http://www.youngpoetsnetwork.org.uk/2014/03/24/edith-sitwell-eccentric...
Linda France, National Poetry Competition 2013 winner, on prize-winning poems
01 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Linda France, winner of the National Poetry Competition 2013, presented by the Poetry Society, talks about her why entering competitions is so worthwh...
Simon Armitage talks to Maurice Riordan
30 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Armitage talks about his writing home – his teenager's bedroom in Marsden, West Yorkshire, of taking poetry out into the world on long walks, ...
Michael Hofmann reads 'Baselitz and his Generation'
24 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This poem was specially commissioned by the British Museum, London, in partnership with the Poetry Society. It was inspired by the exhibition, 'German...
Sam Riviere reads his poem, 'untitled'
24 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This poem was specially commissioned by the British Museum, London, in partnership with the Poetry Society. It was inspired by the exhibition, 'German...
Kathryn Maris reads 'The House with Only an Attic and a Basement'
24 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This poem was specially commissioned by the British Museum, London, in partnership with the Poetry Society. It was inspired by the exhibition, 'German...
Adlestrop - read by Lance Pierson
20 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Adlestrop - read by Lance Pierson by The Poetry Society
The Blackbirds Come by Kim Rooney
17 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Blackbirds Come by Kim Rooney by The Poetry Society
Adlestrop, read by Katrina Naomi
17 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Adlestrop, read by Katrina Naomi by The Poetry Society
Steve Ely talks to Maurice Riordan
16 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Join poets Steve Ely and Maurice Riordan in a sparkling discussion about Ely's current and forthcoming collections, his guiding spirits Hughes, Hill a...
Jack Underwood talks to Maurice Riordan
12 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Underwood talks to Maurice Riordan about the development of his work and the transition from pamphlet to a full collection, how there are just te...
Adam Bridgland on his show 'Fables'
16 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Adam Bridgland talks to Mike Sims about his Poetry Café exhibition,'Fables', the inspiration of song lyrics, caravans, picnics, printmaking an...
Mark Doty interviewed by Richard Scott
18 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In an absorbing exchange, acclaimed US poet Mark Doty talks to Richard Scott about some of his most famous poems, the gay experience in literature, th...
Colette Bryce talks to Maurice Riordan, Poetry Review podcast, autumn 2013
09 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Colette Bryce talks to Maurice Riordan, Editor of Poetry Review, about "omphalos", Seamus Heaney's idea of the place that is central to a poet's imagi...
Popescu: Peter Manson reads Stéphane Mallarmé
04 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Manson reads from The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé (Miami University Press), which he translated from French. The book was shortlisted ...
Colette Bryce 'The Full Indian Rope Trick'
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Colette Bryce reads her poem 'The Full Indian Rope Trick' at the Autumn 2013 Poetry Review launch party in November 2013.
Popescu: Lorna Shaughnessy reads Manuel Rivas
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lorna Shaughnessy reads from The Disappearance of Snow by Manuel Rivas (Shearsman), which she translated from Galician. The book was shortlisted for t...
Popescu: Ciaran Carson reads Arthur Rimbaud
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ciaran Carson reads from In the Light Of, after Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (The Gallery Press), which he translated from French. The book was sho...
Mark Doty 'A Green Crab's Shell'
26 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
'A Green Crab's Shell' by Mark Doty. Published in Atlantis (Cape Poetry, 1996). Recorded in the Poetry Society studio, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2...
Sam Willetts talks to Patrick McGuinness in the Poetry Society podcast for 'Poetry &'
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick McGuinness, poet, novelist and Guest Editor of Poetry Review, talks to Sam Willetts, contributor to the summer 2013 issue, 'Poetry &'. Recorde...
Gerald Mangan 'Thomas, the Mystical Cat'
17 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Poet and artist Gerald Mangan reads a 'lost' Eliot poem in the Poetry Café, London, as part of his exhibition, 'Gerald Mangan: Caricatures'
Anne Gray 'Terminally Ill'
11 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Gray reads 'Terminally Ill'. The recording was made before her joint reading with US poet Matthew Dickman at the Poetry Cafe, London, on 23 May 20...
Anne Gray 'WTBTY'
11 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Gray reads 'Will this be the year?'. The recording was made after Anne's joint reading with US poet Matthew Dickman at the Poetry Cafe, London, on...
Matthew Dickman 'Long Division'
11 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Dickman reads 'Long Division'. The recording was made after Matthew's joint reading with the British poet Ann Gray at the Poetry Cafe, London,...
Matthew Dickman 'Alley Poem'
25 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Dickman reads 'Alley Poem'. The recording was made after Matthew's joint reading with the British poet Ann Gray at the Poetry Cafe, London, on...
Anne Gray 'Joy'
25 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Gray reads 'Joy', commended in the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition. The recording was made before her joint reading with US poet Mat...
Moniza Alvi & Esther Morgan talk anonymity in this Poetry Society podcast
08 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Publication in Poetry Review is generally a cause for celebration and fanfare. So how did Esther Morgan and Moniza Alvi. Guest Editors of the spring 2...
Steve Tasane- Grumblebum poem
12 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This poem for children, written and narrated by poet Steve Tasane, can be used in the classroom for sharing storytelling and performance poems. The Po...
Bernardine Evaristo, Warsan Shire, Richard Scott, Sophie Mayer & Ed Doegar - Poetry Society podcast
08 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating conversation between Bernardine Evaristo, Guest Editor of Poetry Review, and contributing poets Edward Doegar, Sophie Mayer, Richard Sco...