The poetry podcast that finds out what goes on in poets' minds and how they deal with writer's block. Host Indrani Perera brings you interviews with established poets and explains the techniques used in writing poetry. This is the must-listen podcast for all those interesting in improving their craft or anyone wanting to learn more about poetry.
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Season Two, Episode 4: An Interview with Peter Bakowski - Getting Published
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Poet Peter Bakowski brings the novelist's gaze to the art of writing poetry about fictional characters. In this wide-ranging conversation, Peter talks about his incredible forty year career as a poet including the experience of having his poetry widely translated and organising poetry tours. He talks about poetry as sculpture, finding the right way…
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Listen to Magdalena Ball read her poem, Eastern Whip Bird, and then learn all about the poetic techniques of alliteration and caesura as well as the use of punctuation in a poem. You can find Magdalena at www.magdalenaball.com.Pocketry által
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Season Two, Episode 2: An Interview with Andy Jackson - Editing Journals
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Content warning: death Australian poet Andy Jackson joins us on the Pocketry Presents podcast to talk about his creative process and experience of editing literary journals. Join us to hear about expressing the social element of poetry, the challenges and rewards of being commissioned as well as visible differences, otherness and marginality.…
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Pocketry Presents is back in 2022 with more poets and poetry goodness for your listening pleasure! Season Two features more of what you've come to expect including interviews with established poets about their creative process, emerging poets reading their work, analysis of featured poems and new books to inspire and illuminate. Brought to you by P…
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Season Two, Episode 1: The Pocketry Almanack - Issue 5
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Content warning: Domestic violence and CPTSD Pocketry Presents is back with a special episode featuring the poets and artists published in Issue 5 of the Pocketry Almanack! Tune in to hear the published poets reading their poems as well as artist Tegan Iversen describing her artwork and the inspiration behind the piece. You'll also hear some intrig…
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Thank you to all the poets who appeared in the very first season of Pocketry Presents. It's been a whirlwind five months of poetry, stories, words, interviews and poetic techniques. And a big thank you to all you lovely listeners for tuning in - it's been wonderful to share poetry with you!Pocketry által
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Episode 20: The Pocketry Almanack - Issue Four
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Content warning: drug reference, toxic relationships, torture, war Pocketry Presents is back with a special episode featuring the poets and artists published in Issue 4 of the Pocketry Almanack! Tune in to hear poetry in English as well as Burmese. Learn how we've managed to cram in even more art with stunning pieces from artists Meg Doller and Shi…
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Pocketry interrupts the scheduled episodes for this season to bring you a special announcement for emerging and aspiring poets wanting to get their poetry published.Pocketry által
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Episode 18: An Interview with Thabani Tshuma - Part Two Performing
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In this masterclass on the art of spoken word performance, Thabani Tshuma talks about terror and excitement, empowerment and nerves, feelings and nuances, dangerous spaces and diary dumps, duty of care to an audience, curating a feature set, stage presence and theatricality, writing for page vs stage, poems as mini plays, memorising and rehearsing,…
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Episode 17: An Interview with Thabani Tshuma - Part One The Creative Process
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Zimbabwean spoken word artist and poet, Thabani Tshuma on learning to use the medium, writing when there's time, non-linear writing and starting in the middle, figuring out where in the poem you are and what it needs, performance as an editing tool, poetry as an oral art form, editing as part of the creative process, not writing enough vs always wr…
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Listen to Es Foong read the poem Heavy Into Silence, from her chapbook, Margin Doodles Volume 1, and then learn all about rhyme and how to craft a title for your poem. You can find Es and Waffle Irongirl, her digital and performance persona, at www.waffleirongirl.com.Pocketry által
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Episode 15: An Interview with Dominique Hecq - Part Two Winning Awards
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Content warning: cancer, death, grief Dominique Hecq returns to Pocketry Presents to share her experience of entering competitions and winning awards. She talks about writing in French and English, responsibility to the people you're writing about, the liberating effect of time, testing other audiences, the gamble and thrill of entering competition…
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Episode 14: An Interview with Dominique Hecq - Part One The Creative Process
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Content Warning: grief, death, SIDs Belgian-born poet and scholar, Dominique Hecq talks about silence and sunshine, prose vs poetry, the materiality of language, writing through the night, sequences and triptychs, getting stuck, rhythm vs images, sounds and movement, hearing what the poem wants, first drafts and mess, crossing borders of art and la…
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Warning: this episode contains mature themes and parental guidance may be required In this episode, we hear Kevin Brophy read his poem What We Know from the collection, This Is What Gives Us Time. We look at how the poem is structured and learn about the technique of anaphora used in the poem. Kevin's latest book, In This Part of the World, was pub…
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Episode 12: An Interview with Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Part Two Getting Published
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Content Warning: addiction, recovery and self-harm In this honest and far ranging episode of Pocketry Presents, Scott-Patrick Mitchell takes great care in dealing with the issues surrounding the publication of their debut collection, Clean, forthcoming with Upswell Publishing in 2022. They talk about the Port Augusta train station and the Indian Pa…
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Episode 11: An Interview with Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Part One The Creative Process
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Poet and spoken word artist, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, talks about page poetry and spoken word, memorisation and fragments, writing routines and the critical voice, movement as an editing tool, art as inspiration, writing for journal themes, LQBTA+ identity activism and archive, ecological disaster and climate change, always learning, honouring a poe…
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Episode 10: A Guide To Getting Published
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Editor of The Pocketry Almanack, Indrani Perera, gives indispensable advice and practical tips for emerging poets wanting to get published in literary journals. You’ll discover the biggest mistake made by emerging poets when sending in their work for publication and learn what you can do to make sure your work is read by the editors of literary jou…
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Episode 9: An Interview with Melizarani T Selva - Part Two Performing
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Queen of improvisation, Melizarani T Selva is back to discuss audience reactions and investment, writing pantoums, earning a feature set, the open mic animal, curating a tight set, comedy, Draupadi and the Mahabharata, adding movement, making mistakes and forgetting lines, improvisation and the ephemeral nature of performance, sharing before perfor…
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Episode 8: An Interview with Melizarani T Selva - Part One The Creative Process
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Spoken word artist and poet, Melizarani T Selva on ending poems, secret newsletters, collectors' notebooks, a perpetual state of writing, why she'll never admit to writer's block, validity of bullet points, metaphor generators, permission to write, advice for BIPOC writers and the hamster wheel of grief. Buy her book, Taboo, from Lit Books in Malay…
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We hear Angela Costi read her poem Coburg and learn about stanzas and end stopped lines. You can read the poem in Angela's latest collection of poetry, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New published by Spinifex Press and you can find her on Facebook at AngelaCostiPoetics.Pocketry által
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Episode 6: An Interview with Dr Mark Tredinnick - Part Two Winning Awards
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Master of form, Dr Mark Tredinnick, joins us again to talk about entering poetry competitions. With a guest appearance from Dante the dog, this wide ranging conversation covers the joy and mystery of trees and children, commissions vs writing prompts, the high octane combination of faith and scepticism, the impact of wining money on a poetry practi…
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Episode 5: An Interview with Dr Mark Tredinnick - Part One the Creative Process
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Award winning poet and essayist, Dr Mark Tredinnick, talks about the insistence of the muse, Seamus Heaney and the attic life, the instrumentation and musicality of typing, the constraints of form, inspiration as a fetish, the intrusions of ordinary life, interrogating the adequacy of phrasing and the many ways to overcome writers' block. You can f…
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We hear David Munro read his poem Night Sky and learn about the poetic techniques of line breaks and enjambment. You can find Night Sky, the poem in this episode, in David's first poetry collection, Wearing My Father’s Hat which is published by Melbourne Poet’s Union.Pocketry Presents által
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Episode 3: An Interview With Emilie Collyer - Part Two Getting Published
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Emilie Collyer joins us once again to share her experience and insights into getting her poetry published in literary journals. In this interview Emilie talks about the use of different forms, crafting poems and your poetic voice, different types of validation for writers and poetry as a conversation with other poets. You can find Emilie at www.bet…
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Episode 2: An Interview with Emilie Collyer - Part One the Creative Process
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Australian poet and playwright, Emilie Collyer talks about her creative process. We chat about how she writes her poetry as well as the limits of words, Greek mythology and inherited lineages, truthful energies, the benefits of reading your work out loud and re-drafting vs careful planning. You can find Emilie at www.betweenthecracks.net.…
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Episode 1: The Pocketry Almanack - Issue Three
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Are you keen to hear the poems from the latest issue of the Pocketry Almanack? Then tune in and get comfy as we hear the poets reading their poems from Issue 3 published in April 2021. We hear from our featured artist Shirley Kanyon and also hear some intriguing words and interesting anecdotes. Poets featured in this episode: Andrew Brion, Amanda C…
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Welcome to the first season of Pocketry Presents, the brand new poetry podcast that finds out what goes on in poet's minds and just how they deal with writer's block. Featured poets in this season include Emilie Collyer, Angela Costi, Kevin Brophy, Dominique Hecq, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, David Munro, Dr Mark Tredinnick, Thabani Tshuma and Melizaran…
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