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Love poetry? Join Robin and Peter and their guests as they read poems, chat about all things poetry and generally explore the bedazzling world of Planet Poetry. Since we started this podcast in 2020 we've interviewed dozens of poets and poetry editors, discussed all the thorny issues about the poetry world and delved into our favourite poetry past and present. We don't have sponsors and we don't interrupt the flow with ads, so if you like what we do, please buy us a coffee or two at buymeacoffee.com/planetpoetry to help keep the poddy going! Thanks!
Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny hosts Planet Poetry, a arts show with 82 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Another gem from the Archive: Paul Stephenson, interviewed in 2024 about his debut collection Hard Drive (Carcanet) . Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please
Send us Fan Mail Plump up your pillows! Planet poetry is back with Mara Bergman. We'll trace a journey from New York state to the UK, sharing poems from The Disappearing Room and The Night We Were Dylan Thomas , both pub
Send us Fan Mail We're going back to September 2021 for this interview with the fabulous Kim Addonizio... Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us
Send us Fan Mail Minneapolis is once again facing violence and repression. From afar we watch in horror, and in this episode from our archive featuring Danez Smith we offer our solidarity with the people of Minnesota. Or
Send us Fan Mail 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 upbrin
Send us Fan Mail Surprise! We're back again and starting Season Six with a distinctive Black Country jewel from our trove of interviews. Liz Berry delighted us all in April 2023 when she spoke with Robin about her (then)
Send us Fan Mail 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 Planet P
Send us Fan Mail 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 profound c
Send us Fan Mail 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 uncerta
Send us Fan Mail 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 Shining C
Send us Fan Mail 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 live
Send us Fan Mail Why should not old men be mad? Hear Peter Daniels , a pioneer of gay men's writing in the UK, brood on the emptiness of boxes, speculate on what those Cavalrymen are up to behind the locked doors, cope w
Send us Fan Mail 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 crystal
Send us Fan Mail 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 they mu
Send us Fan Mail 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 oppress
Send us Fan Mail A revisit of Robin's interview with Caleb Parkin back in May 2022. Read a description and listen to the full episode here . Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, p
Send us Fan Mail Ah-hem. Stop thinking like that. Think like a poet! Dwell in negative capability and write in a way that reflects the sheer messiness of human cognition! That's better isn't it? We meet Dai George and ta
Send us Fan Mail 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 frailty in
Send us Fan Mail 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 wor
Send us Fan Mail 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 be
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Inua Ellams
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