Fleet and Flower

Richard Capener, founding editor of Babel Tower Notice Board Journal and an avant-garde instigator chats to Beir Bua editor Michelle Moloney King. Such an interesting convo about the white bunny falling down the rabbit hole that is what is avant-garde, who gets to use the label, are we looking for fights with lyrical poets or for enlightenment. We chat art history, movements, being poets, being editors of avant-garde journals, Irish rebel Thomas Francis Meagher (Meagher of The Sword), Transcendental Meditation, the bourgeoisie, and the bias of language. Richard Capener, has a debut pamphlet of non-fiction forthcoming from Broken Sleep Press. www.twitter.com/richardcapener3 www.thebabeltowernoticeboard.com Michelle Moloney King, editor of Beir Bua Journal, avant-garde poet and curious Tipperary mam. www.twitter.com/moloneyking www.MichelleMoloneyKing.com

Nikki Dudley and Michelle Moloney King chat experimental poetry, lockdown life, mum-life-balance, journal admin, the pain of rejection sending, and she recites from her upcoming poetry pamphlet. Nikk Dudleyi is Managing Editor of streetcake magazine, which she started with Trini Decombe in 2008. streetcake publishes an online issue every 2-3 months and in 2019, launched the streetcake experimental writing prize for 18-30 year olds, supported by the Arts Council England. The prizes include mentoring from published writers, personalised feedback and developmental support, publication and book bundles. Nikki studied for her BA and MA at Roehampton University. Her dissertations focused on changing her writing practices, experimentation and the long poem. She grew up in inner city London and attended state school in Camden. Nikki has been in love with words since she wrote short stories in her scrapbook at primary school and discovered what a metaphor was. https://twitter.com/nikkidudley20 https://www.nikkidudleywriter.com/aboutnikkidudley.html Chatting to Beir Bua editor Michelle Moloney King, who is a tad tired after the first day teaching in the classroom during Ireland's third lockdown. I hope I made sense in this video. And when I was referring to PFOs I didn't mean that's what I'm telling people who are not accepted into an issue of Beir Bua Journal but I meant it as in that's how it feels to send them and I don't like rejecting people's work because you are all so brilliant. Being alive and putting pen to paper is brilliant....that's why I'm stopping sending them because you are enough as you are. I find if people read an issue of two they get a vibe for the journal and usually get an acceptance then. www.twitter.com/moloneyking www.MicheleMoloneyKing.com

Chole Proctor considers her practice to exist in the chthonic realm of involuting soil poetics [read Donna Haraway]. She is interested in interjections, clashing discourses, soil, fungus and semantic mess-making. Her work has appeared in Rewilding - An Ecopoetic Anthology, Azimuth: the Ecology of an Ear, Alterity, Corbel Stone Press's Contemporary Poetry Series: Nature & Language and her artists book Saprotrophic can be found at the National Poetry Library. She is an MA graduate of Poetic Practice and is an assistant editor at The Babel Tower Notice Board. Chloe Proctor https://chloeproctor.me/ Twitter https://twitter.com/ChloProc and https://twitter.com/sporesbot Assistant Editor https://www.thebabeltowernoticeboard.com Michelle Moloney King www.twitter.com/moloneyking www.MicheleMoloneyKing.com https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/

Steven J Fowler chats asemic poetry and the kindness of the avant-garde writing world with Michelle Moloney King. No editing of this video, forgive the cough at the beginning as I whip baby grows out of the shot view, lockdown life, eh! I live the meta vibe of no editing so enjoy or not, whatever. What a cool chap, so kind and considered...to have so many avant-garde books published and so open to supporting all in the field....sound fella. WHO: SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. His work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He has published eight collections of poetry, five of artworks, six of collaborative poetry plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. His writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs, films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals. He is the founder and curator of The Enemies Project and Poem Brut as well as poetry editor at 3am magazine and former executive editor at The Versopolis Review. He is lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University, has taught at Tate Modern, Poetry School and Photographer's Gallery and is a Salzburg Global Fellow. He is the director of Writers' Centre Kingston and European Poetry Festival. LINKS: S J Folwer website and Twitter http://www.stevenjfowler.com/ https://twitter.com/stevenjfowler Asker of questions https://michellemoloneyking.com/ https://twitter.com/MoloneyKing https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ Beir Bua Journal https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/BeirBuaJournal

Hello and welcome to the first of many podcasts from Fleet and Flower. I am Michelle King and in this episode I introduce myself, my background and talk about my passion for spiritual development and energy. It is never what you do but how you do it. So, I talk about the energy behind momentum. TO find out more check out my business website www.FleetAndFlower.com or follow me on Instagram @FleetAndFlower.