Planet Poetry

Peter Kenny contemplates a pharmaceutical offer in today's poem. @peter-kenny.bsky.social @planetpoetry.bsky.social

Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...

HoHoHo 🧑‍🎄 we are BACK for our Christmas Special featuring Niall Campbell on his @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection 'The Island in the Sound', shoutouts to Kay Syrad, @matriches.bsky.social, George Seferis plus festive shenanigans planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Season 5 | Finale - with Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny - Planet Poetry Join your podcast pals at a table at the Beachy Head pub. Enjoying a view of  sloping fields down to the Belle Tout Lighthouse and the sea beyond and take a moment to reflect on another season of...

It's a wrap for Season 5 . Your pals @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social repair to Beachy Head to celebrate. Happy Summer Holidays everyone! A humongous THANK YOU to all our stellar guests and wonderful listeners over the last five years. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

The Way | The Blueprint - with Jo Colley and Charles G Lauder, Jr - Planet Poetry It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr  and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of the Rat, a p...

*New episode!* A 4-way interview with @cglauder.bsky.social‬
and Jo Colley of Blueprint Press, plus our usual nattering (and Peter even warms to some Frank O'Hara)...
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Points | Divergences - with Erica McAlpine - Planet Poetry What was that? A bat or swallow? Something flitted past, but we can't agree on what we've just seen ... Erica McAlpine reads from Small Pointed Things (just published by Carcanet) that makes that unce...

Here's Erica McAlpine discussing her new book 'Small Pointed Things' from @carcanet.bsky.social in our latest episode...with @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social

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Still Life | Still Shining - with Richard Scott - Planet Poetry Still life? Not as we know it. Trembling with tension and beauty, and roses that cup darkness and secret trauma... Hear Richard Scott share from his extraordinary new collection That Broke into Shinin...

Poems that tremble with tension and beauty, cupping darkness and secret trauma. Richard Scott shares from his new collection 'That Broke into Shining Crystals, from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Hosted by @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

You're welcome Milena! We loved your poem. Robin

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 ...

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New episode! Isabelle Baafi, Lewis Carroll plus @milenawilliamson.bsky.social @rialtopoetry.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social and looking forward to Free Verse... www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Thanks for posting this, @richchad.bsky.social !

Crystal | Clarity - with Ellen Cranitch - Planet Poetry A gleam of love in hard times. Our guest Ellen Cranitch shares poems from her Bloodaxe collection  Crystal, a subtle, multifaceted work arising from the discovery that her partner was addicted to...

New episode! Ellen Cranitch discusses her
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
collection 'Crystal' and we shoot for the stars with John Donne, Odysseus Elytis and Tomas Transtromer... with your hosts @robinhoughton.bsky.social
& @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Girls | Snakes - Planet Poetry Psssssssssst!  We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl. She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the responsibilities...

Loved talking to @ruthpadel.bsky.social about her fabulous collection Girl, and hearing her exquisite poems. From the annunciation to a serpent goddess glimpsed from a London bus. Plus poignant work by Siegfried Baber listen to @planetpoetry.bsky.social here www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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 oppres...

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.bsky.social @sidekickbooks.bsky.social planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

From the Archive: Caleb Parkin - Planet Poetry A revisit of Robin's interview with Caleb Parkin back in May 2022. Read a description and  listen to the full episode here.

New episode coming soon, so meanwhile here's another gem of an interview from the archive: calebparkinpoet.bsky.social on the pod in 2022 talking with robinhoughton.bsky.social
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I think Oulipo Bants writes a column for the Telegraph. HT to @andrewmale.bsky.social for the origin of the "gag".

Our Christmas episode is up! Listen to daigeorge.bsky.social talking with us about his book 'How to think like a poet' from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social , plus all kinds of festive banter including Santa Express, carol singing &more www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...
@robinhoughton.bsky.social

Dai George (@daigeorge.bsky.social) Poet, academic, other writings. Young and easy under the apple boughs. How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum), out now

Just knitting together our Christmas episode which is going live tomorrow! Featuring our interview with daigeorge.bsky.social , OuLiPo bants, Tennyson, Santa and festive larks. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Thanks so much Amelia!

Thank you Eilin!

Just getting started on here. Thank you to everyone who's following us back!