Poetry Worth Hearing

In this episode, you can hear Tony Curtis, the distinguished Welsh poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at South Wales...

The prompt for this episode was rule-making and/or rule breaking, an idea which occurred to me after reading a sonnet sequence by Claire...

The prompt for this episode was 'Words and music, perhaps', a misquote from W B Yeats who was himself, reputedly, tone deaf. I have...

This episode had the theme of 'losing and/or finding'. Perhaps not surprisingly, I received more poems of loss than of discovery. Some...

The theme for this episode was 'canonical'. I was hoping for a range of poems which would either celebrate the traditional canon of...

This episode features an interview with Northern Ireland poet, Matthew Rice, where he talks about his jurney in poetry and gives a short...

This episode will be the last before the autumn, and also the last before the general election. Appropriately, therefore, the theme this...

The theme for this episode is 'other' and so I asked Jane Burn, who describes herself as working class, neurodivergent, pansexual and who...

This episode features an interview with Ruba Abughaida who is part Palestinian, part Lebanese. Her poems reflect the struggles of the...

This episode features Cahal Dallat, poet, critic and musician, talking about W.B.Yeats in his capacity as founder-organiser of the WB...

In this episode we hear Aleksander Mazey read from his forthcoming collection, Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition. Alex's two previously...

This is the twentieth episode of Poetry Worth Hearing which feels pretty remarkable. Also remarkable are the poems and poets you will...

This winter episode of Poetry Worth Hearing includes an extended reading by Jack Cooper from published and unpublished work, other wintry...

Episode 18 focuses on ill-being and well-being and was inspired in part by an unsolicited offer of poems by Dan O'Brien and American poet...

Welcome to Episode 17 of Poetry Worth Hearing, available on Google, Apple and Audible podcasts. This episode focuses on issues of...

Welcome to Episode 16 of Poetry Worth Hearing, the last before the summer. This episode includes an interview with Vanessa Lampert and a...

The fifteenth episode of Poetry Worth Hearing concentrates on the long poem. It includes an interview with Linda Black, editor of Long...

Welcome to Episode 14 of Poetry Worth Hearing. This episode features poems about work. Most of us, poets included, spend most of our...