National Poetry Day 2021

Alternative Stories and Fake Realities

Welcome to our special anthology podcast celebrating the UK’s National Poetry Day 2021. We have a mix of poems from the podcast in the past year and new poems in forthcoming collections.

The presenter is Tiffany Clare
Readers (where not read by the poets themselves) are Marie-Claire Wood, Niall Wright and Charlie Richards
Sound design, soundscapes, and production are by Chris Gregory

• Kim Moore : “All The Men I Never Married” performed by Kim Moore with music by Dave Boraston. This is taken from Kim’s new collection of the same name, published this week by Seren Books
• Polly Atkin : “Epiphany Insomnia” and “Frog Season” peformed by Polly Atkin from her Seren Books collection “Much With Body”
• Mona Arshi “Egg” and “Hurry (A Migration Song)” read by Tiffany Clare
• Salena Godden “The Red Tower” from “Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (originally published as part of our podcast with Salena in July) read by Salena Godden
• Phoebe Stuckes “Baby, You Know What I want” and “Dolly Parton Enters a Dolly Parton Lookalike contest in a gay bar and does not place” read by Marie-Claire Wood from the Verve Poetry Press pamphlet “The One Girl Gremlin”
• Sarra Culleno “Tantrum” from her forthcoming collection “Bonds” read by the author
• Carolyn Jess-Cooke “Peeling The Skin”read by the writer from her forthcoming Seren Books collection “We have to Leave The Earth”
• Hannah Ingeborg “Brumation” read by the author and Joanne Sutton Smith “ A New York City Keening” read by Marie-Claire Wood taken from the Rare Swan Press Collection “100 Words of Solitude”
• Lisa O’Hare “Lockdown Life, A Roller-coaster of Emotions” from her Master House Publishing collection of the same name
• Gregory Leadbetter “Optics” read by Charlie Richards and taken from his Nine Arches Press collection “Maskwork”
• James O’Leary “Holding Joe” read by Niall Wright and Maggie Sawkins “Script” read by Tiffany Clare from the collection “A Wild and Precious Life edited by Zoe Gilbert and Lily Dunn.

Follow our poets on twitter

Kim Moore https://twitter.com/kimmoorepoet
Polly Atkin https://twitter.com/pollyrowena
Mona Arshi https://twitter.com/arshi_mona
Salena Godden https://twitter.com/salenagodden
Phoebe Stuckes https://twitter.com/phoebestuckes
Sarra Culleno https://twitter.com/sarra1978
Carolyn Jess-Cooke https://twitter.com/CJessCooke
Rare Swan Press (100 Words of Solitude publisher) https://twitter.com/rare_swan_press
Lisa O’Hare https://twitter.com/TheLisaOHare
Gregory Leadbetter https://twitter.com/GregMLeadbetter
Find out more about Seren poets, Kim Moore, Polly Atkin and Carolyn Jess-Cooke and buy their books via the Seren website and listen out for some special podcasts with Seren coming soon https://www.serenbooks.com/

Visit Nine Arches Press https://www.ninearchespress.com/

You can find out much more about National Poetry Day on 7th October by visiting the website https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/ and twitter https://twitter.com/PoetryDayUK

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