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Planet Poetry Podcast @PlanetPoem

The UK podcast about poets and poetry, founded 2020. Interviews, discussion, pints. Hosted by Peter Kenny & Robin Houghton. planetpoetrypodcast.com

Joined October 2020
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Look! Interview with @IsabelleBaafi on the podcast, discussing her debut collection from @FaberBooks 'Chaotic Good'... buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…

Chaos | Coded - with Isabelle Baafi - Planet Poetry

Chaos? We love it! Time to meet Isabelle Baafi and hear about her-hotly anticipated first full collection Chaotic Good just published by Faber. Among other things, it grapples with what it means to...

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Oppression | Optimism - with Tishani Doshi - Planet Poetry

What's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi, sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the continuing...

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Our first episode of 2025 is live - we talk to the brilliant Tishani Doshi, debate Chat GPT and Bad Kid Catullus - where else do you get this variety?? @BloodaxeBooks @shotscarecrow @Kenpet @RobinHoughton
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Our first episode of 2025 is live - we talk to the brilliant Tishani Doshi, debate Chat GPT and Bad Kid Catullus - where else do you get this variety?? @BloodaxeBooks @shotscarecrow @Kenpet @RobinHoughton
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Just a few more days to get your submissions in for Magma 92: 'Ownership' Closing date: 30th November 2024 Editors @DrDanne @stephenson_pj & Kathy Pimlott look forward to reading your poems! 📷 @pennydampier magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub…
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Stride with Martin Malone through each season on the rugged Aberdeenshire coast in his 'Gardenstown' collection from @brokensleep and his selected Larksong Static from @hedgehogpoetry plus @kenpet and @RobinHoughton revisit Dylan Thomas, and Selima Hill buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…

Seasons | Filsket Seas - with Martin Malone - Planet Poetry

Strap on your best boots, and follow Martin Malone as he shoulders through the seasons on the rugged granite of Aberdeenshire's north sea coast, pondering nature, ecology, human resilience and...

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Not only @IGalleymore spilling the beans to @RobinHoughton this week, but we also hear a poem by @poetrysociety Foyle Young Poet Indy Moon, and @kenpet gets all Keatsian...
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New episode! Isabel Galleymore @IGalleymore is on the pod, talking to us about her book 'Baby Schema', Disney, cute vs creepy and tamagochis... buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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New episode! Isabel Galleymore @IGalleymore is on the pod, talking to us about her book 'Baby Schema', Disney, cute vs creepy and tamagochis... buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…

Cuteness | Weirdness - with Isabel Galleymore - Planet Poetry

Aw! You’re squishably cute!  Yes you, dear listener. In this episode we meet Isabel Galleymore and hear from her highly original collection Baby Schema, published by Carcanet. Tempted into a big-eyed...

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Hear the inspirational @danez_smif read from their instant classic: 'Bluff'. Plus @kenpet and @robinhoughton discover work by Sudan's Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (from @PoetryTranslate) and read Tony Hoagland and celebrate Fleur Adcock who passed this month. buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…

Afropessimism | Affirmation - with Danez Smith - Planet Poetry

Kerpow! The poetry fireworks are back. We spark our fifth season into life with Danez Smith – who shares poems from their astonishing collection Bluff (published by Vintage Penguin 2024), destined to...

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I discuss memory, meditation and halibut poems from @MariscatPress and halibut with the splendid @CharlotteGann in an Understory Conversation #poet #poetry #memory theunderstoryconversation.co…

Lit From Within — The Understory Conversation

Peter Kenny chats with Charlotte about his poems in the new Mariscat Sampler One, as together they probe ‘memory street’. Charlotte Gann: Hi Peter, I’m excited to be embarking on this conversation...

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In our season finale we revisit the wealth of gloriously talented guests we've interviewed recently, plus (breaking our iron rule) we feature poems by @robinhoughton and @kenpet from forthcoming publications from Pindrop Press and @MariscatPress buzzsprout.com/1414696/15473…

Vigils | Confabulations - with Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny - Planet...

Rrrrrrrip! Yikes! That’s the sound of the Planet Poetry rulebook being wantonly torn in half for our Season 4 finale. For one episode only Robin and Peter abandon their solemn vow and share some of...

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Hear @commajane read from her collection 'Assembly Lines' from @BloodaxeBooks (plus the best Brexit poem ever) and on the UK election day @kenpet and @RobinHoughton talk politics & poems from Adrian Mitchell,@DanushaLameris & Jameson Fitzpatrick. buzzsprout.com/1414696/15360…

Lost trades | Lost songs - with Jane Commane - Planet Poetry

Grip the square steering wheel of your Austin Allegro and let Jane Commane navigate you through the haunted places of the post-industrial Midlands. She treats us to poems from Assembly Lines publis...

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From Korea to Lincolnshire @RoryWaterman delights us with Come Here to This Gate, from @Carcanet. And @kenpet and @robinhoughton belatedly discover the @mcrucefix translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies and celebrate poet Ann Perrin. buzzsprout.com/1414696/15249…

Fathers | Frontiers - with Rory Waterman - Planet Poetry

Hear Rory Waterman  describe his experience of being stuck in quarantine in Korea, where (as well as doing press ups) he used his time to begin his fourth collection Come Here to This Gate,  from...

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An avian turn? We feature @SeniSeneviratne and her poems from 'The Go-Away Bird' (@peepaltreepress) plus hosts @kenpet and @robinhoughton chat about 'Egg/Shell' by @VKennefick (@Carcanet) & online poetry from @InkSweatTears and Propel Magazine. buzzsprout.com/1414696/15115…

Bold Lines | Black Pages - with Seni Seneviratne - Planet Poetry

Silent faces and displaced lives.  Seni Seneviratne gives voice to overshadowed Black children, exotic pages and servants in the portraits of nobility and the mercantile class in 18th Century...

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Miss us? Then hear Ali Lewis read from his naggingly profound debut collection Absence from @CHEERIOPublish plus @kenpet & @RobinHoughton read Robert Frost, a harrowing work by Paul Celan, and discover 'Poetry Peter'. buzzsprout.com/1414696/14996…

Absence | Accidents - with Ali Lewis - Planet Poetry

Staring at the mark on the wall where that painting once hung? Wondering why the moon, seen by others, has been hidden from you?  You've entered the world of Absence (Cheerio Poetry 2024) by Ali...

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Hear the brilliant @rmcfarlane63 read from Living by Troubled Waters from @NineArchesPress. Plus @kenpet and @RobinHoughton discuss Ursula K. Le Guin, and Imogen Wade's National Poetry prizewinner 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City'. buzzsprout.com/1414696/14871…

Testaments | Troubles - with Roy McFarlane - Planet Poetry

Hop aboard. No time to idle in green pastures here, instead let’s follow Roy Mc Farlane as he guides us through his collection Living by Troubled Waters from Nine Arches Press weaving the toxic...

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Latest episode is live for World Poetry Day! Hear our interview with Seán Hewitt... @robinhoughton @kenpet @seanehewitt @JonathanCape planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/…

Rapture | Reality - with Seán Hewitt - Planet Poetry

We’re back with global ambitions for World Poetry Day. First we skip over to  Dublin to interview Seán Hewitt about his gorgeous second collection Rapture’s Road, published 2024 by Cape. Enriched by...

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Thanks so much, Chrissie!
Chrissie Gittins@ChrissieGittins
10 Mar 2024
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@PlanetPoem So glad to be able to delve into Planet Poetry. I ‘m thoroughly enjoying all the interviews l ‘m catching up with . Thank you for these insightful and rigorous conversations. planetpoetrypodcast.com
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Wow! @MissLizBerry has won the Writers' Prize Book of the Year for 'The Lost Child'! Hear our interview with Liz on the @planetpoem podcast last year... Full episode: buzzsprout.com/1414696/episo…
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A brief hiatus here at the pod as Peter's had a bereavement. So we're putting out an archive episode this week, but we'll back with a new episode on March 21st.
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