Dandelions Poetry: Podcast

We invite each of our featured poets to have a conversation with us for the Dandelions Podcast, about their writing and their inspirations. We also ask them to have one or to shorter conversations with us on a topic which might be helpful or interesting for writers.

Each month we have a podcast of the open mic poetry from each Dandelions evening too (it is easy to withdraw your permission for this on the night.)

You can listen here:  Dandelions Poetry Podcast 

So far we have recorded podcasts with: 

Pippa Hennessy

Caroline Stancer talks to the Pippa Hennessy the featured poet from the Dandelions open mic night held at the Sir John Borlease Warren, Nottingham on Thursday 23rd March 2023 Check the Dandelions facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/657680625858950 for future events or get in touch dandelionspoetry@gmail.com Pippa's website is here https://www.serotine.co.uk/ Where you can read some of her work (including the wonderfully interactive Depression Inventory), hear Pippa perform or get in touch with Pippa Some of the artists Pippa found inspirational were; Rosie Garland http://www.rosiegarland.com/ Joanne Limberg http://joannelimburg.net/ Cathy Gindrod https://www.cathygrindrod.co.uk/

04 Jun 2023 · 51 minutes

Annette Pateman   

In this episode Caroline and Birgit talk to Annette Pateman Annette had some wonderful insights into folklore, a terrific list of recomended authors and works to help inspire, and some good tips to get words on the page. Suscribe for more episodes where the Dandlions team will discuss the intricacies of poetry Contact us at Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com Produced by Stuart Vincent Moore Music by Ella Jean Artwork by Eric Miller

07 Aug 2023 · 40 minutes

Gregory Woods 

This episode Caroline and Birgit are in conversation with Gregory Woods.  Gregory has six poetry collections published with Carcanet Press, all of which are listed on his website along with his non-fiction works, see link below  https://www.gregorywoods.co.uk/index.shtml  A well-respected and familiar member of the Nottingham literary community Gregory has so much experience and knowledge that it is impossible for him not to say anything interesting.   For Dandelions Poetry events please visit the Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/groups/657680625858950?locale=en_GB  You can also contact Dandelions poetry by email  Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com  Dandelions Poetry Podcast is produced by Stuart Vincent Moore  Artwork by Eric Miller  Music by Ella Jean 

06 Nov 2023 · 1 hour,

Kathy Bell

Kathleen Bell grew up on the ninth floor of a well-designed council block with “the best views in London” but for the past thirty years has made her home in Nottingham. Kathy has won first prize in the Nottingham Poetry Competition (judged by Liz Berry), second prize in the Brittle Star Competition (judged by George Szirtes) as well as being longlisted in the National Poetry and Mslexia competitions and commended elsewhere. She co-edited the fundraising anthology Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge (Five Leaves, 2015). Her poetry pamphlet at the memory exchange (Oystercatcher, 2014) was shortlisted in the Saboteur awards. In 2021, having escaped from the demands of academia into the quiet of the Covid era, she finally published her first full collection, Disappearances (Shoestring Press) as well as the lockdown pamphlet, Do You Know How Kind I Am? (Leafe) She has also published a handful of short stories, written two unpublished novels and enjoys reviewing other poets’ work For Dandelions events join the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/657680625858950?locale=en_GB Or contact Dandelions at Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com Podcast Production by Stuart Vincent Moore Artwork by Eric Miller Music by Ella Jean

17 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes

Maria Taylor

Maria Taylor is a British Cypriot poet and reviewer. Her latest collection is Dressing for the Afterlife (Nine Arches Press). Her debut collection of poetry, Melanchrini, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2012 and shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Maria has been published widely, including poems and reviews in The Guardian, Magma and The Times Literary Supplement. Maria has been highly commended in the UK Forward Prizes for poetry, she also works as reviews editor for Under the Radar and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at DMU. She tweets at @MariaTaylor_

29 Mar 2024 · 46 minutes

Miranda Barnes

Miranda Lynn Barnes is a poet, researcher, and educator from the US, now living near Nottingham. Her debut pamphlet, Blue Dot Aubade, was published with V. Press in 2020.Formulations, a collaborative chapbook of poems and newly created poetic forms based in chemistry, was published in March 2022 with Small Press, and is co-authored with chemist and poet Stephen Paul Wren. Miranda taught creative writing for five years at Bath Spa University while undertaking her PhD. She is now an academic researcher at Loughborough University.Miranda is also an editor at Consilience Journal, a peer-reviewed journal of poetry and science, and a co-editor of Poetrishy, and experimental journal at the nexus of poetry and mathematics.Her poems have appeared in Under the Radar, EcoTheo Review, Shearsman, Birmingham Literary Journal, New Welsh Review, Interpreter’s House, Tears in the Fence, Ink, Sweat & Tears,and other journals and anthologies. Her poem ‘In the Pines’ won 2 nd Place in the Verve Poetry Competition 2023, judged by Forward Prize winner Kim Moore.More at https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/

25 Jul 2024 · 43 minutes

Please email us on dandelionspoetry@gmail.com if you have any ideas for podcast topics.