Poetry Worth Hearing

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This winter episode of Poetry Worth Hearing includes an extended reading by Jack Cooper from published and unpublished work, other wintry...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

Welcome to Episode of Poetry Worth Hearing. In this episode, which focuses on form, you will hear an interview with Mimi Khalvati, an...

Welcome to Episode 12 of Poetry Worth Hearing. This episode features a specially recorded reading by Chaucer Cameron from her pamphlet,...

Welcome to Episode 11, the first for 2023 and a Happy New Year to all. To listen to the episode, go to https://anchor.fm/kathleen-mcphil...