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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats with Ella Frears about the need for deadlines, sending work to friends and how to get good at metre.
Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. She has been shortlisted for prizes like The Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Ella’s most recent book, Goodlord is published by Rough Trade Books and is a book that defies form definition, a vortex of novel, long poem and email.
You can buy Goodlord here: https://roughtradebooks.com/products/goodlord-an-email-ella-frears
You can buy Shine, Darling here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/shine-darling-ella-frears/3082167?ean=9781916015920
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats with Stevie Ronnie about developing voice, unpicking what a poem is, and the similarities between visual art and poetry.
Stevie Ronnie is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Northumberland. He was longlisted for the John Moores Prize for his piece called Thirty Hours or So of Being Awake. Stevie works with The Writing Squad as one of their mentors to young writers.
You can check out more of Stevie Ronnie’s work can be found at his website here: stevieronnie.com
The project he worked on based on his trip to the artic can be found here: https://stevieronnie.com/the-arctic-was-a-poem-twisted-into-rope-2
The poem Stevie wrote called I Dream of Canute (& the Sea is Rising) can be found here: https://stevieronnie.com/i-dream-of-canute-the-sea-is-rising-2
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight about her sad girl Tumblr phase, which is better poetry or prose, and railcards for poets.
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a poet based in York and her collection Food for the Dead was published by Jonathan Cape in 2024. Charlotte has gone on to win the Laurel Prize for first collection, and has been shortlisted for the Felix Dennis prize for best first collection amongst other prizes.
You can buy Charlotte’s book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/food-for-the-dead-a-masterpiece-olia-hercules-charlotte-shevchenko-knight/7607613?ean=9781787334892
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Mark Pajak about Seamus Heaney, dyslexia and how to build imagery in poetry.
Mark is a poet based in Liverpool and had his debut collection Slide published by Jonathan Cape. He has received a Northern Writers’ Award, a Society of Authors’ Grant, an Eric Gregory Award and an UNESCO international writing residency. Mark is a lecturer at The Open University.
You can buy Mark’s book here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slide-mark-pajak/6881991?ean=9781787330313
Mark spoke about Seamus Heaney’s poem Lightening VIII which can be read here: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/8424-poetry-1995-2
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Helen Tookey about stanza construction, Wittgenstein and what it is like to teach poetry.
Helen is a poet based in Liverpool who has published three collections with Carcanet, most recently In the Quaker Hotel. She has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection and the Forward Prize.
Helen is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University where, amongst other achievements she tutored Gregory during his undergraduate degree.
You can buy Helen’s book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800171824
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Andrew McMillan about sonnets, what counts as a tour and what it's like to move from poetry to prose writing.
Andrew McMillan has published three collections of poetry and his first novel, Pity, was published this year by Canongate. His first collection Physical was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award and his subsequent books have all received critical acclaim. Andrew is a professor in contemporary writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Andrew was one of Gregory’s lecturers during his undergraduate degree at Liverpool John Moores University.
You can buy Andrew’s most recent poetry collection Pandemonium here: www.poetrybookshop.co.uk/product/pandemonium-2/
You can buy Andrew’s most recent book, his debut novel Pity here: www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page/pity-by-andrew-mcmillan
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Joe Carrick-Varty about writing based on real experiences, being an editor and his debut collection More Sky.
Joe Carrick-Varty is a poet based in London whose collection More Sky was published by Carcanet and was shortlisted for the TS Elliot Prize. Joe was a founder and editor for the online poetry journal Bath Magg.
You can buy Joe’s book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2453
You can read the back catalogue of issues of Bath Magg here: www.bathmagg.com/
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
Tell us what you thought of this episode by posting on Instagram or Twitter and tagging us. You can find us @ThePoemsWeMade.
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Theme tune: Joe Chesterman-March who can be found here: joecm.co.uk
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On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Malika Booker about sonnets, Afrostyle school and how you develop a sense of voice in poetry.
Malika Booker is a poet based in Leeds whose collection Pepper Seeds, published by Peepal Tree Press was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and in 2023 Malika’s poem Libation won the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem. In 2001 Malika founded writing collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and now she is a lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
You can buy Malika’s book here: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/pepper-seed
(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)
Please give the show a five star rating on whatever podcasting app you are listening to this on.
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The intro and outro music is produced by Joe Chesterman-March.
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