The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
By Chris Jones
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Episodes: 29
Description
In each episode Chris Jones invites a poet to introduce a poem by an author who has influenced his, her or their own approach to writing. The poet discusses the importance of this work, and goes on to talk in depth about a poem they have written in response to this original piece.
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Stephen Sawyer on Jorie Graham's poem 'Time Frame' and his own poem 'What We Did Know We Had or Running Thin'
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Meg Gripton-Cooper on Anne Carson's poem 'Short Talk on Hedonism' and her own poem 'Excavating the House of Love'
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Part Two: Brian Lewis on his memoir 'Last Collection' alongside Chris Jones on his book of poems Little Piece of Harm
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Brian Lewis on his memoir 'Last Collection' alongside Chris Jones on his book of poems Little Piece of Harm
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana on Kimiko Hahn's poem 'Compass' and her own poem "Madam Gout'
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Cliff Forshaw on Arthur Rimbaud, both in translation and as an influence on his own book-length sequence RE:VERB
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Helen Angell on T S Eliot's poem 'Preludes' and on her own poem 'Mancunian Way'
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Geraldine Monk on Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo' and her own poem 'Chattox Sings'
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Al McClimens on Simon Armitage's poem 'Evening' and his own poem 'Grand National'
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Matt Black on Edward Lear's poem 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' and his own poem 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and the Turtles of Fun'
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Vicky Morris on Hannah Lowe's poem 'Fist', Georgie Woodhead's poem 'When my Uncle Stood at the Top of the Office Block Roof’, and her own poem ‘Sea Road’
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Steve Ely on Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and poems from his own sequence ‘The Battle of Brunanburh’ and his poem ‘Filth as thou art’ from his collection Eely
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Abbi Flint on Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's poem 'Little Peach' and her own poem 'Cow Low Bowl (650 - 700 AD)'
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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David Swann on Tony Hoagland's poem 'The Neglected Art of Description' and his own poem 'The Last Day of Summer'
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Robert Hamberger on John Clare's poem 'The Field Mouse's Nest' and his own poem 'Herb Robert'
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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David Harmer on Dylan Thomas's 'Poem in October' and his own poetry sequence 'White Peak Histories'
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Katharine Towers on Elizabeth Bishop's poems 'Sandpiper' and 'Jerónimo's House' and her own poem 'Elizabeth Bishop's Sad Epitaph'
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Mark Pullinger on Shinkichi Takahashi's poem 'Sparrow in Winter' and his own work 'Magus' and 'Untitled'
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Fay Musselwhite on David Jones's book-length poem In Parenthesis and her own sequence Memoir of a Working River
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Lydia Allison on Tom Phillips' A Humument and on her own Metro Erasure Poems
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Holloway on Sharon Olds' poem 'The Blue Dress' and her own poem 'Blue Dress'
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Angelina D'Roza on Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy (translated from Sophocles) and her own poem 'Correspondences: The Credence of Birds'
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Matt Clegg on ’Back Home Again Chant’ by T’ao Ch’ien (translated by David Hinton) and his own poem ’Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome’
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Pete Green on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal and on their own poem Sheffield Almanac
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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James Caruth on Anne Stevenson’s ”North Sea off Carnoustie” and his own poem ”Coast Road, North Antrim”
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Pam Thompson on James Schuyler’s ’Hymn to Life’ and her own poem ’An Afternoon’
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Suzannah Evans on James Tate’s ’Making the Best of the Holidays’ and her own poem ’A Course in Miracles’
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Rob Hindle on William Blake’s ’The Sick Rose’ and his own poem ’The Sick Rose’
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The Two-Way Poetry Podcast: What’s It All About
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Oct 16, 2023 |