The Poems We Made Along The Way

By Gregory Kearns

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by Gregory Kearns

Category: Books

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 3
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 60

Beth
 Nov 24, 2024
This podcast features fascinating conversations with a range of exciting poets. Gregory Kearns is a thoughtful and engaging interviewer who draws out interesting insights from his guests in interviews that are a joy to listen to.

Description

The Poems We Made Along The Way is a show where Gregory Kearns interviews a different poet each episode. These conversations explore community, friendship and poetry. How poems can be friends to us? How we need community to make us better poets? And what we can do to best build those communities?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


Episode Date
Episode 59: Dave Ward - "Hoarder with a purpose"
Oct 19, 2026
Episode 58: Toria Garbutt - "I felt like I'd be struck by lightening"
Oct 05, 2026
Episode 57: Liam Bates - "Capacity for uncertainty"
Jul 06, 2026
Episode 56: Ellora Sutton - " The next thing always belongs"
Jun 29, 2026
Episode 55: Shannon Kuta Kelly - "One poem at a time"
Jun 22, 2026
Episode 54: Shauna M. Morgan - "[Language] is the ultimate border crossing”
Jun 15, 2026
Episode 53: Sasha Debevec-McKenney - "The Poetics of Embarrassing Yourself"
Jun 08, 2026
Episode 52: Galia Admoni - "Everything is a poem!"
Jun 01, 2026
Episode 51: Daljit Nagra - "Take that journey a bit further"
May 25, 2026
Episode 50: Carl Phillips - "The desire for precision"
May 04, 2026
Episode 49: Shara McCallum - "Arguing with the dead"
Apr 27, 2026
Episode 48: Kym Deyn - "My poetry goes squelch"
Apr 20, 2026
Episode 47: Sasha Dugdale - "Writing from your viscera"
Apr 13, 2026
Episode 46: John McCullough - "How to move a stranger"
Apr 06, 2026
Episode 45: Ian McMillan - "Everywhere can be a place for art"
Mar 30, 2026
Episode 44: Roma Havers - "Your body is the form"
Mar 23, 2026
Episode 43: Helen Calcutt - "Worry kills the poem"
Mar 16, 2026
Episode 42: Taz Rahman - "Sophisticated art is not the story, but the representation"
Mar 09, 2026
Episode 41: Michael Symmons Roberts - "[Poetry's] powerlessness is part of its great power"
Mar 02, 2026
Episode 40: Martin Kratz - "I don't have to write this"
Dec 29, 2025
Episode 39: Natalie Shapero - "The domain of the page"
Dec 22, 2025
Episode 38: Catherine-Esther Cowie - "Writing close to the bone"
Dec 15, 2025
Episode 37: Isabelle Baafi - "Remember who you are"
Dec 08, 2025
Episode 36: Gillian Allnutt - "An exercise in truthfulness"
Dec 01, 2025
Episode 35: Vona Groarke - "Languages dress differently"
Nov 24, 2025
Episode 34: Sarah Howe - "We ourselves are callbacks"
Nov 17, 2025
Episode 33: Nick Makoha - "Masters of Time"
Nov 10, 2025
Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
Nov 03, 2025
Episode 31: George Szirtes - "Rhymes are accidents waiting to happen"
Oct 27, 2025
Episode 30: Mary Jean Chan - Queering clarity through poetry
Oct 06, 2025
Episode 29: Erica Hesketh - Participating in forms
Sep 29, 2025
Episode 28: Rishi Dastidar - Advertising the poem with a great title
Sep 22, 2025
Episode 27: Lewis Buxton - Building an audience
Sep 15, 2025
Episode 26: Katie Hale - Contending with our ancestors
Sep 08, 2025
Episode 25: Luke Kennard - Outrunning your inner critic
Sep 01, 2025
Episode 24: Deryn Rees-Jones - Structuring poetry out of fractals
Aug 25, 2025
Episode 23: Anthony Anaxagorou - Discovering an anticolonial maximalism through poetry
Aug 18, 2025
Episode 22: Daniel Sluman - Bringing the bodymind to poetry
Aug 11, 2025
Episode 21: Mimi Khalvati - Learning to fall in love with syntax
Aug 04, 2025
Episode 20: The Poetics of Cornish Surrealism, and more with Rachael Allen
Jun 09, 2025
Episode 19: Riddles that resist being answered, and more with Jacob Polley
Jun 02, 2025
Episode 18: The Ledbury Critics Scheme origins story, and more with Sandeep Parmar
May 26, 2025
Episode 17: Religious devotion in poetry, and more with Rachel Mann
May 19, 2025
Episode 16: Defining the ‘guerrilla pastoral’, and more with Steve Ely
May 12, 2025
Episode 15: Witchcraft’s influence on poetry, and more with Betty Doyle
May 05, 2025
Episode 14: Admiring Barbara Hepworth, and more with Wendy Allen
Apr 28, 2025
Episode 13 Part Two: How to structure a poem, and more with Jacob Sam-la Rose
Apr 21, 2025
Episode 13 Part One: Taking responsibility for our tools, and more with Jacob Sam-la Rose
Apr 21, 2025
Episode 12: The importance of lying in truthful poems, and more with Hera Lindsay Bird
Apr 14, 2025
Episode 11: A passion for zines, and more with Liz Berry
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 10: How to be more creative, and more with Roger Robinson
Jan 06, 2025
Episode 9: Walking your way to a great poem, and more Helen Mort
Dec 30, 2024
Episode 8: How to get good a metre, and more with Ella Frears
Dec 23, 2024
Episode 7: What it means to be an interdisciplinary artist, and more with Stevie Ronnie
Dec 16, 2024
Episode 6: Impacts of Tumblr on the poetry landscape, and more with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
Dec 09, 2024
Episode 5: How to write strong images for poems, and more with Mark Pajak
Oct 21, 2024
Episode 4: The influence of philosophy on poetry, and more with Helen Tookey
Oct 14, 2024
Episode 3: Reflecting on the legacy of Physical, and more with Andrew McMillan
Oct 07, 2024
Episode 2: The importance of libraries, and more with Joe Carrick-Varty
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 1: Exploring poetic voice, the power of sonnets, and more with Malika Booker
Sep 30, 2024