Podcast appearances and mentions of Anthony Anaxagorou

In this episode our panellists Anthony Anaxagorou, Nikita Gill, Jeremy Noel-Tod, and chair Sanah Ahsan, as they ask whether in our information-saturated age and with ethics evolving over the years: has it become impossible to separate artists from their work?

"I think affinity bias is the one where I feel is the deal breaker , if you can meet someone, and you can see something in them, that reflect you be a principle, be a belief, be it a way that you would like to be seen. I think that's the one that draws you in, you know, we talk about being charismatic, we talk about being charming,some people are very naturally charismatic, which means it's not, you know, they're not learned. It's not trained. But I also think there's an element of how does that charisma impact and affect us in different ways?" Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. Anthony is the winner of the 2023 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prize for his most recent poetry collection “Heritage Aesthetics” published by Granta. The chair of judges, journalist Samira Ahmed, said Anthony's poetry “is beautiful, but does not sugar coat. The arsenic of historical imperial arrogance permeates the Britain he explores in his writing. And the joy of this collection comes from his strength, knowledge, maturity, but also from deeply felt love.” His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2022 he founded Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London's Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. This is what one reviewer says of Anthony and his work ‘One of the most politically engaged poets of our time, Anthony holds the busy intersectionality of history, politics and ideology in poems that remain fresh and open. To stay up to date, follow @SmitaTharoor on Smita Tharoor (@SmitaTharoor) / Twitter or Smita Tharoor (@smitatharoor) | Instagram and follow the podcast on your favorite streaming service.

In 2022 Anthony Anaxagorou and editor Josie Mitchell talked about heritage, national identity and poetry that cannot keep still.Anthony is the author of several volumes of poetry, non-fiction and a collection of short stories. His latest book, Heritage Aesthetics, draws on family migratory histories between Cyprus and the UK to interrogate patriarchy, xenophobia and national divides.Purchase a copy of Anthony Anaxagorou's new poetry collection, Heritage Aesthetics, here. You can also read poems from his 2019 collection, After the Formalities, here. 

Recorded November 8, 2022 A special event exploring poetry and resistance organized by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland as part of the Literature and Resistance Series. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Anthony Anaxagorou joined us to read from their work, and to discuss how ideas of resistance inform and emerge from their writing, and how such ideas have also shaped their work beyond poetry, in research, teaching, mentoring, and publishing. The evening was introduced and chaired by Seán Hewitt, award-winning author of Tongues of Fire (2020) and All Down Darkness Wide (2022), and Teaching Fellow in the School of English at Trinity. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was a finalist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Butler Literary Award. In 2021, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. The recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award and Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, she serves as an advisor on the boards of Culture Ireland and Diversifying Irish Poetry. Founder of the Play It Forward Fellowships for writers traditionally underrepresented in Irish literature, she is poetry editor at Skein Press and Fallow Media, and contributing editor with The Stinging Fly. Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He is publications include the collections After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins, 2019), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book of the Year in both the Guardian and the Telegraph, and Heritage Aesthetics, published in November 2022. He is also the author of How To Write It (Merky Books, 2020), a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing, the craft of poetry and fiction, and the wider publishing industry. In 2022 Anthony founded Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection. He is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London's Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.

In this episode, I am joined by Anthony Anaxagorou to celebrate the release of his new poetry collection, Heritage Aesthetics. Engaged with the complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems map both an island's public history alongside a person's private reckoning. Anthony tells me how he needs to write to understand himself, why we shouldn't be looking to poetry for answers and why Cypriots are both fascinated and obsessed with race. We also discuss the complexities of Cypriot identity and how honouring the Cypriot dialect is one of the most powerful ways to preserve Cypriot heritage. Heritage Aesthetics is OUT NOW. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter @roottovinepod and don't forget to leave a rating and review!

Author Nick Hornby on the similarities of Dickens and Prince, as he publishes his new book on the “genius” of the Victorian novelist and the sex-funk pop musician. On the eve of World Ballet Day, we talk to Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancer, Cecilia Iliesiu, about the new project she has co-founded – Global Ballet Teachers - to make the teaching of ballet more accessible to ballet teachers worldwide. We also hear from Vivian Boateng, a ballet teacher based in Accra, Ghana, who has been taking part in the Global Ballet Teachers project. Derek Owusu has written a book about his mother, who came to Britain from Ghana. But rather than a prose memoir he has imagined the journey of her life as a long poem titled Losing the Plot. Anthony Anaxagorou also writes about his family, life here and in Cyprus, where they came from, in his new collection Heritage Aesthetics. Rather than interviewing the two writers separately Front Row asked each to read the other's. Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou join Front Row to discuss their work. Photo credit for Nick Hornby: Parisa Taghizadeh Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Kirsty McQuire

The word 'reading' may appear to describe something specific and universal, but in reality it's more of an umbrella term, covering a huge range of ways in which people interact with text. Dyslexia and hyperlexia may be two of the more obvious departures from normative ideas of reading, but whether we're neurodivergent or not we all read in different ways that can vary significantly depending on what we're reading and why we're reading it. Matthew Sweet is joined by Matt Rubery, Louise Creechan and poets Debris Stevenson and Anthony Anaxagorou. Matt Rubery, Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary, University of London has worked on books including The Untold Story of the Talking Book; Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies, Further Reading and Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences. You can hear more from him in an episode about the history of publishing called Whose Book is it Anyway? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080xzm6 Dr Louise Creechan is studying is a Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to showcase academic research. You can hear her discuss Dickens' Bleak House in an episode called Teaching and Inspiration https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00169jh Debris Stevenson describes herself as 'Dyslexic educator, Grime-poet and Dancehall raving social activist'. Anthony Anaxagorou's latest collection of poetry is Heritage Aesthetics, published on 3rd November 2022. Free Thinking has a playlist featuring discussions about prose and poetry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh The theme of this year's National Poetry Day is the Environment and you can hear Radio 3's weekly curation of readings and music inspired by that topic on Sunday at 5.30pm and then on BBC Sounds for 28 days https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

This month, Rebecca, Hannah and Laurie are joined by Anthony Anaxagorou to discuss empire, Paul Simon and really long poems. Plus there's a taster of our Book Club Mini Episode on All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore - that episode will be out later this month. You can find out more about Anthony here: https://anthonyanaxagorou.com/

How does a poet see the world? How can we move past self doubt and keep writing after rejection? In this episode we talk to Anthony Anaxagorou about how his journaling practice helps him generate ideas for his work, what his editing process looks like, and why he might spend eight or nine hours working on a single poem. Anthony is candid about his experience of failure and rejection, shares why we should be wary of the temptations of ‘prize culture' (always seeking validation through the next prize), and why it's crucial to develop our own internal value system to sustain ourselves and our writing. He even reads us some of his poetry!*ABOUT ANTHONY ANAXAGOROUAnthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His second collection After the Formalities was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. He's the founder of one of London's leading poetry nights, Out-Spoken, and the independent publisher Out-Spoken Press.*SHOW NOTES[03:22] The experience of writing a book during the pandemic[04:41] Anthony talks about his uncle and how he influenced him as a writer[08:07] On failures and why it's important to ask yourself searching questions and see rejection as part of your job[11:48] What is prize culture and why does Anthony think it's dangerous?[14:06] Measuring success and creating your own value system[15:04] Anthony reads his poem, "Uber"[18:31] On being dissatisfied with his own work [21:53] On why he carrys a notebook with him all the time, and a writing habit he got from Lydia Davis[22:34] Anthony's morning writing exercise[24:15] Anthony talks about his writing process, including 7-8 hours of focusing on one poem[27:43] How do you stop feeling intimidated by the academic side of poetry?[31:32] Anthony reflects on what "pushing your writing as far as it can go" means to him[34:32] Anthony shares the exercises he gives to his students to help them in writing a poem[36:38] What is the loaf of bread analogy, and why is playing with timelines when you write essential?[37:40] Resolving the poem and the idea of leaving the reader with questions[39:15] How do you know when a poem is done? [43:33] On being in conversation with the reader and why the writer is only half the conversation[46:13] Anthony shares how he started his London-based Out-Spoken open mic nights [49:44] Anthony reads his poem, "After the Formalities"*QUOTES BY ANTHONY:“The more you read, the more you get a sense for how poems work. And it's literally just from reading and you get a sense of where things end and where is an interesting place to end. If you think along the lines of—if you think the word interesting as opposed to kind of definitive. Then it kind of—it swaps. I just want to be interesting on the page. I don't want to be correct. I don't want to be certain. I want to be interesting.”*RESOURCES:Connect with Anthony:Twitter: @Anthony1983Facebook: anthonyanaxWebsite: anthonyanaxagorou.com*Links from the show:After the Formalities by Anthony AnaxagorouHow To Write It by Anthony AnaxagorouSuppose a Sentence by Brian DillonUber by Anthony AnaxagorouAfter the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou*Authors/Poets mentioned:Don PatersonTa-Nehisi CoatesEmily DickinsonOcean VuongMatthew SweeneyJericho BrownFor show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.comFor free writing sessions, join free Writers' Hours: writershour.com*FOLLOW LONDON WRITERS' SALONTwitter: twitter.com/​​WritersSalonInstagram: instagram.com/londonwriterssalonFacebook: facebook.com/LondonWritersSalon*CREDITSProduction by Victoria Spooner. Artwork by Emma Winterschladen

It's 50 years since The Godfather was released, the first of three films that have had a huge impact in their own right and on so much that followed them, from The Sopranos to The Simpsons. Christina Newland and Carl Anka discuss the power of the films and their legacy as Godfather II joins The Godfather on cinematic re-release. Our Generation is a new play by Alecky Blythe, the author of London Road, whose particular technique of verbatim theatre this time involved following a group of young people in the secondary school years and just beyond for five years. The snapshot of exams, phones, relationships, dreams and aspirations that's resulted is at the National Theatre and then Chichester. It's reviewed by poet Anthony Anaxagorou and critic Susannah Clapp. Paul Dano discusses his role as The Riddler in new film The Batman, and reflects on the particular quality shared by many of the characters he has played. And Anthony Anaxagorou and fellow poet Hannah Lowe, who's just won the Costa Book of the Year Award for her collection The Kids, each recommend a new poetry collection.

Editor Kirsty Allison talks digital culture with Anthony Anaxagorou and we drop the name of his highly anticipated new collection on Granta Books. Ambit hang in the rainbow realm celebrating the queer collection of the year with Queering the Green (Belfast Lifeboat) editor Paul Maddern and recent Clarissa Luard Award winner Padraig Regan talking about the concepts of anti-inclusive language as subject. Also regular Ambit contributor, Mícheál McCann. From the forthcoming Ambit 246, we go beyond the streets of Soho with the louche lines of fashion illustrator, musician and poet Stuart McKenzie who'll be performing at our party at the Martinez on 2 March. Also in the studio, Cleo Henry, who's being published for the first time by Ambit. She reads Each Time I Piss in Hampstead Heath. And it's a pleasure to host the queer Manx poet, Simon Maddrell and Tom Bland whose Camp Fear collection on Bad Betty Press is designed for a life of chaise be-longue-ing. Music from Gil De Ray, BAG x Behrens, Jamika and the Argonauts, Disinformation, and Hackedepicciotto.

Editor Kirsty Allison talks digital culture with Anthony Anaxagorou and we drop the name of his highly anticipated new collection on Granta Books.Ambit hang in the rainbow realm celebrating the queer collection of the year with Queering the Green (Belfast Lifeboat) editor Paul Maddern and recent Clarissa Luard Award winner Padraig Regan talking about the concepts of anti-inclusive language as subject. Also regular Ambit contributor, Mícheál McCann. From the forthcoming Ambit 246, we go beyond the streets of Soho with the louche lines of fashion illustrator, musician and poet Stuart McKenzie who'll be performing at our party at the Martinez on 2 March. Also in the studio, Cleo Henry, who's being published for the first time by Ambit. She reads Each Time I Piss in Hampstead Heath. And it's a pleasure to host the queer Manx poet, Simon Maddrell and Tom Bland whose Camp Fear collection on Bad Betty Press is designed for a life of chaise be-longue-ing.Music from Gil De Ray, BAG x Behrens, Jamika and the Argonauts, Disinformation, and Hackedepicciotto. To hear more, visit kirstyallison.substack.com

Kicking off our series of BFDay '21 recordings is a big one! The poetry showcase, featuring readings from Anthony Anaxagorou, Will Harris, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Nisha Ramayya, Peter Scalpello and Stephanie Sy-Quia, along with bonus piano playing also from Will Harris. Produced by Daniel Fuller.

The final episode of our current series explores myths of creation, with poets Anthony Anaxagorou and Chloe Elliott joining our host Eleanor Penny. Chloe gives her interpretation of the ancient Chinese story of Pan Gu, the first living creature, who was trapped inside an egg with the forces of Yin and Yang. Meanwhile Anthony reimagines Cypriot myths about the creation of Cyprus' Pentadaktylos, or five-fingered, mountain. If you've enjoyed the series, you can buy the book Bedtime Stories from the End of the World which is available from all good bookshops, or by following the link on our website at endoftheworldpodcast.com Find out more, listen to all our poems and catch up with all of our previous episodes at: endoftheworldpodcast.com Follow us for updates on Twitter or Instagram: @goodbyeworldpod

For the first episode of the second season of Common Room Philosophy, I interview Professor Karen Simecek. Karen is currently writing a book on the use of the lyrical voice in poetry; for this podcast we discuss ideas from that work such as the role of voice in poetry and the ethical relationship between the performance poet and the audience member. We then apply these insights to the subject of philosophy, discussing how to make our conversations more kind and our practices more collaborative. Listen to this episode if you are interested in having better conversations about philosophy or listening better to poetry. Some links to readings mentioned in the episode: More on Karen and her work: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/simecek/ Karen's poetry book recommendation- Jen Hadfield's Nigh-No-Place: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/nigh-no-place-889 Another poet Karen mentions- Anthony Anaxagorou: https://anthonyanaxagorou.com/ Pamela Sue Anderson's talk on speaker vulnerability: https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/read-pamela-sue-andersons-iwd-keynote/ Interview and audio editing by Toby Tremlett (@toby_tremlett). Find us on Twitter at @RoomPhilosophy. If you have any feedback for the show, positive or critical, it would be very welcome. Check out the anonymous feedback form here: https://forms.gle/XWRA5RtGgREmLtTh6

As the nation waits for the vaccine and lockdown restrictions to ease, what can literature teach us about the art of waiting? Writer Rebecca Stott, critic Alex Clark and poet Anthony Anaxagorou discuss the art of waiting, whether cheerfully or 'with a green and yellow melancholy… like Patience on a monument' as Viola says in Twelfth Night. Lolita Chakrabarti’s play Hymn begins at a funeral where two men meet, and begin to form a remarkable bond. Lolita discusses her play that uses music and dance to chart the developing bond between these men. The play that begins streaming live from the Almeida Theatre this week. What do you remember of The Silence of the Lambs? It was released 30 years ago yesterday - on St Valentine's Day. The critic Michael Carlson looks back at this horror classic which uses elements of the rom-com genre, and argues we are wrong to think Lecter is the central figure. Clarice Starling, the FBI trainee, played by Jodie Foster, is the focus, and the film plays out from her perspective. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Simon Richardson Main image above: Adrian Lester as Gil in Hymn Image credit: Marc Brenner

Britain is a direct product of its imperial past. So argues the writer Sathnam Sanghera in his latest book, Empireland. He tells Tom Sutcliffe how we need to move beyond simplistic feelings of shame or pride in Britain’s empire if we are to truly understand who we are. It’s not just the story of empire shaping modern Britain but the longer more entrenched history of class. In Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth, the historian Selina Todd explores how class distinctions still prevail today. Class and empire weave their way into the work of the poet Anthony Anaxagorou. His family is from Cyprus - an island deeply divided and with a history of colonisation. He charts his rise as a poet in the pocket-book series, ‘How to… Write it’. And his last collection, After the Formalities, explores the anxieties inherent in his British and Cypriot heritage. Producer: Katy Hickman

In today's Pickle Jar we are joined by the brilliant Anthony Anaxagorou. His recent collection After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins, 2019) was nominated for a TS Eliot Prize. In today's episode he shall be bringing in a little known poem by Robin Beth Schaer called Holdfast. check out the poem here : https://poets.org/poem/holdfast

The pandemic is having a profound impact on the arts. But you don't need to go anywhere, involve other people or need many materials, to write or read poetry, and during the lockdown people have turned to verse. In an extended edition of Front Row devoted to poetry Samira Ahmed hears from the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, about his recent writing life - composing lyrics for Huddersfield Choral Society. Vanessa Kisuule, City Poet of Bristol, talks about her collaboration with the Old Vic and local groups, creating modern work inspired by medieval mystery plays. Em Power, three times Foyle Poet of the Year winner, reveals how poetry is a communal art. And they all read their work. Even before the lockdown there was a surge in sales of poetry books, driven by the internet. Anthony Anaxagorou and Vanessa Kisuule chart their journeys as poets via YouTube to the printed page. They discuss poetry addressing politics - Kisuule's poem on the toppling of the Colston statue went viral - and poets' engagement with the environment. Armitage launched the Laurel Prize to encourage this. In March Daphne Astor started the Hazel Press whose books about the natural world are created from it using local recycled paper, printed with vegetable inks. Anna Selby writes poems about the underwater world - while underwater. The prospect of inoculation against Covid gave rise to'vaccination nationalism'. When Edward Jenner pioneered smallpox vaccination in 1796 he was determined his discovery would benefit people around the globe. Several poets, including Robert Southey, wrote poems in his honour. Front Row has commissioned Anthony Anaxagorou to do the same for the developers of the Covid vaccine, and he reads his new poem. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May

We can't go to the movies for a fix of action now. We can, though, witness spectacle that even the biggest budget blockbusters can't match - by simply going outside into the weather. 'Use should be made of it,' wrote Virginia Woolf. 'One should not let this gigantic cinema play perpetually to an empty house.' The poet Alice Oswald discusses Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology that she's compiled with editor Paul Keegan, capturing writing about the weather, from the deluge in Gilgamesh, the earliest known poem, to 'Billie's Rain' one written a few years ago, about sitting in a van listening as rain hammers on the roof. Missing the stage? Don’t despair - three regional theatres just got together to stage a lockdown-proof digital production of Jonathan Coe’s classic 1994 satirical novel What A Carve Up! They’ve re-imagined it for 2020, and added an all-star cast from Tamzin Outhwaite to Sharon D Clark, with cameos from Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi. Katie Popperwell reviews. In recent years, the growing popularity of Life Writing - creative writing based on autobiography or memoir - can be seen across book awards shortlists as well as the sheer number of creative writing courses dedicated to the subject. As the annual Spread the Word Life Writing Prize opens for entries, we talk to judge Frances Wilson about the kind of work the prize is seeking as well as the latest developments in this type of writing. She’ll be joined by Poet and teacher Anthony Anaxagorou, whose book How to Write It - published this month by Stormzy’s publishing imprint, Merky Books - aims to encourage budding writers to tell their story. Presenter Ben Bailey Smith Producer Jerome Weatherald

Ian McMillan introduces new poetry that takes its cue from the limestone, fossils and concrete of the walls of London's Southbank Centre, in a celebration of all kinds of poetry walls, real and digital. His guests are the poets Chris McCabe, Anthony Anaxagorou, Joelle Taylor and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa. Chris McCabe is a poet and the joint librarian of the National Poetry Library (based at the Southbank Centre). He performs a new commission for The Verb - inspired by the fossils ('scavengers and predators') in the limestone at the Royal Festival Hall. Chris has just edited 'Instagram Poetry for Every Day' and his poetry collections include 'The Triumph of Cancer' ( Penned in the Margins). Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a dancer and poet. In 2019 she became the first person to win the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam Championships, become a BBC 1 Extra & Asian Network Talent Search finalist and the Hammer and Tongue UK Poetry Slam Champion in the same year. Safiya has been thinking about walls and their multiple meanings during the pandemic. She performs a poem called "Plastered Heart, August". Her poetry is to be published by Out-Spoken Press. Anthony Anaxagorou is the founder of Out-Spoken – which encompasses poetry and performance nights and a press. Out-Spoken has partnered with the Southbank Centre, breaking down barriers between poets, genres, and sharing the work of marginalised groups. Anthony's poetry collection ‘After the Formalities' ( Penned in the Margins) was nominated for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Joelle Taylor is an award-winning author, performer and poet, and the founder of Slambassadors – her latest collection is “Songs My Enemy Taught Me” (Out-Spoken Press). She is also an editor for Out-Spoken. This episode is part of the programming for BBC Radio 3's residency at London's Southbank Centre.

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studied music in Leipzig with Beethoven’s friend and contemporary. Her latest collection Beethoven Variations (Chatto) is simultaneously a biography in verse of the great composer and a passionate and highly personal account of how one creative genius can feed, and feed on, another.She was joined in an evening of readings and conversation about Beethoven, poetry and music by poets Raymond Antrobus and Anthony Anaxagorou, both of whom are currently engaged in creative projects working on and from the life and work of Beethoven. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to Anthony Anaxagorou performing his beautiful poem ‘Things Already Lost’ especially for the Salon at the recent Cheltenham Literature Festival. Anthony is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, and more, and has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. This poem is from his second collection After the Formalities, published by Penned in the Margins in September 2019, which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and has been shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. Anthony was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the penultimate episode of the second series, Ilya Kaminsky and Sophie Robinson join Jack and Rachael in the studio to discuss, among other things, poems with ‘big dick energy’, the blurring of poetry with other literary forms and the tension between metaphor and the denial of metaphor. Audio postcards are from Daisy Lafarge, Anthony Anaxagorou and Hugo Williams.  Listen to this episode and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss forthcoming episodes from the new season. Show notes  Studio guests ILYA KAMINSKY was born in the former Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-Odessa-Ilya-Kaminsky/dp/1908376120) , and co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Deaf Republic (https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571351411-deaf-republic.html) has been shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry. He has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. @ilya_poet (https://twitter.com/ilya_poet) SOPHIE ROBINSON teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and is the author of A and The Institute of Our Love in Disrepair. Her third collection, Rabbit (https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/rabbit) , was published by Boiler House Press in 2018 and was chosen for the winter PBS Wild Card Choice. Recent work has appeared in n+1, The White Review, Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares, BOMB Magazine, and Granta. @sophiepoetry (https://twitter.com/sophiepoetry) Audio postcards featured in this episode ‘the willows on the common are still on fire’, written and read by Daisy Lafarge. Her pamphlets understudies for air (https://sadpresspoetry.com/our-books/) and capriccio (https://shop.spamzine.co.uk/product/capriccio) were published by Sad Press in 2017 and Spam Press in 2019 respectively. @janepaulette (https://twitter.com/janepaulette) ‘Cause’, written and read by Anthony Anaxagorou. Anthony’s most recent collection, After the Formalities (http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2019/08/after-the-formalities/) , is out now from Penned in the Margins and is shortlisted for the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. @Anthony1983 (https://twitter.com/Anthony1983) ‘Tara Browne’, written and read by Hugo Williams. Lines Off (https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571349753-lines-off.html) , Hugo’s latest collection, was published by Faber in June 2019.  About the presenters RACHAEL ALLEN is the poetry editor at Granta, co-editor at the poetry press Clinic and of online journal tender. A pamphlet of her poems was published as part of the Faber New Poets scheme, and her first collection, Kingdomland (https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571341115-kingdomland.html) , was published by Faber in January 2019. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory award and New Writing North’s Andrew Waterhouse award. @r_vallen (https://twitter.com/r_vallen) JACK UNDERWOOD is a poet, who also writes short fiction and non-fiction. A recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, he published his debut pamphlet in 2009 as part of the Faber New Poets series. His first collection Happiness (https://www.waterstones.com/book/happiness/jack-underwood/9780571313617) was published by Faber in 2015 and was winner of the 2016 Somerset Maugham prize. He is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths College and is currently writing a non-fiction book about poetry and uncertainty. Two pamphlets, Solo for Mascha Voice and Tenuous Rooms were published by Test Centre in 2018. @underwood_jack (https://twitter.com/underwood_jack) The Faber Poetry Podcast is produced by Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Hannah Marshall for Faber & Faber. Editing by Strathmore Publishing. Special thanks to Anthony Anaxagorou, Ilya Kaminskyi, Daisy Lafarge, Sophie Robinson and Hugo Williams. 

In this episode of Think Aloud we turn our attention to poetry, and sit down with the London poet and founder of poetry collective Out-Spoken, Anthony Anaxagorou. With him we delve into how poetry can rewrite history, the ways in which he has developed and established his own voice, and how, when this is not a poem, he is not a poet. We also hear from South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, for whom breaking established rules has been key to her poetry, on why the language of women comes from more than just the mouth. "I mean as a kid I absolutely despised poetry...it was as dry as trigonometry… it was like looking at a traffic cone” 
 ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU Out-Spoken’s year-long residency at Southbank Centre continues on 20 June with poetry from Ilya Kaminsky, Kei Miller and Sabrina Mahfouz and live music from Gabriella Vixen and Lloyd Llewellyn. Book tickets and find out more: http://bit.ly/2MgMvgH

In episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendour that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre Birmingham in February. Featuring discussion with Cynthia Miller and Anthony Anaxagorou alongside poetry from Inua Ellams RAP Party poets: Jess May Davies, Casey Bailey, Aliyah Hasina & Sean Colletti. If you like the Pod, please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VerseFirstPoetry

In episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendor that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre Birmingham in February. Featuring discussion with Cynthia Miller and Anthony Anaxagorou alongside poetry from Inua Ellams RAP Party poets: Jess May Davies, Casey Bailey, Aliyah Hasina & Sean Colletti.If you like the Pod, please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/VerseFirstPoetry

Episode Eight – Dan Tsu If lyrics are your thing and you’re a Londoner we can’t imagine you won’t have heard of the Lyrix Organix collective. Dan Tsu is an innovative curator and one of the hardest working event organiser’s in the scene. Lyrix has worked with so many, many talented artists from Ed Shearan to Kate Tempest, Rodney P to Anthony Anaxagorou, the list is expansive and highly impressive. We were super excited to welcome Dan to the ‘Lion Room’ at Unit 137 HQ for a deep and meaningful chat about trees, how much we all love them and how important it is to have a discussion about trees without sounding like a “hippy tree hugger”. Of course we were three selectas sat around a sound system, so we also have a whole heap to say about music production, vinyl pressing and the energy zapping exercise of organising these events we all love so much… Episode Eight tracklist: Dan’s track: Solid As A Rock – SizzlaAdam’s track: Revolution – onlyjoeLouis’s track: Honeycomb – Buju Banton & Beres HammondThe remix track: Solid As A Rock Jungle Remix – Unknown (white label) Find out more about Dan’s projects here… http://lyrixorganix.co.uk https://www.lyrixorganixunfold.com https://soundcloud.com/lyrixorganix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9n8zqCpim8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFWAmL7K7Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZ2lf47BiQ

We recently took the Faber Poetry Podcast to The Hague for a special event at the [Crossing Border Festival](https://www.crossingborder.nl/?lang=en). In this live recording, Rachael Allen and Jack Underwood are joined by fellow poets Anthony Anaxagorou, Momtaza Mehri and Hannah Sullivan for an evening of readings and (brief) discussion. As always you can read the show notes – featuring guest bios and useful links – [here](https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/faber-poetry-podcast-at-crossing-border-festival/). This podcast is produced by Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Hannah Marshall for Faber & Faber. Special thanks to Anthony Anaxagorou, Momtaza Mehri, Hannah Sullivan, Louis and Michel Behre and the team at Crossing Border Festival.

This week we discuss fallen icons in the wake of #metoo and the problems you face as a fan when separating art from the artist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Note: This podcast contains some strong language from the start. In this collaboration between The Poetry Society, Poet in the City and Out-Spoken, Joelle Taylor brings together of the biggest names on the British and American spoken word scenes about the intersection between their poetic craft, politics and activism. This podcast was recorded backstage at King's Place, London on 24 January 2018, before Danez Smith's sell-out performance of poems from their most recent collection 'Don't Call Us Dead'. Featuring: American writer and performer Danez Smith, whose work explores systematic racism, police brutality, and the stigmas around being HIV positive; Anthony Anaxagorou, poet and founder of Out-Spoken Press, which publishes new, establishment-shaking poetry giving a platform to oppressed and under-represented voices; Jay Bernard, poet and filmmaker who has helped create spaces and platforms for QITPOC artists in the UK; Writer and activist Imani Robinson, who works with movements seeking to address anti-black racism and fight for black feminist liberation. Visit The Poetry Society at http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk Visit Poet in the City at http://www.poetinthecity.org.uk Visit Out-Spoken at http://www.outspokenldn.com/

Topics Disscussed: Poetry, Expanding Consciousness VS Netflix, Education System, Creativity, Poetry in Modern day Society  Anthony Anaxagorou is a Poet, Writer, Performer and Educator Support the podcast: Via our Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/Ascend Show Notes - http://ascendbodymind.com/ascend-podcast/

Another guest on the show! No we're not bored of each other just yet.Annotate's social links:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annotate/Instagram: Annotate_Twitter: Annotate_Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKdeFKyVkMQ0JB1Y3eHUnwGratitude video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_YXjSxiPf0Show notes:This week we read 'Heterogeneous' by Anthony Anaxagorou. A poetry book which covers a wide variety of societal and personal issues. He uses an extensive poetic arsenal to express his feelings address these issues in a manner which can captivate the reader.If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can do this anonymously via this Curious Cat link: https://curiouscat.me/inspyre_entDescriptionIn this Podcast we'll be reviewing/discussing a book we've read on a weekly basis. The pod is a lot more interesting than this description, so stick your headphones on and relax whilst you listen to our soothing voices.Hosted by Mohamed Imam and Sharmarke Ahmed of Inspyre Entertainment.TwitterMI- _mimamSA- sharkz_96InstagramMI- m_imam1SA- sharkz17Inspyre EntertainmentTwitter- Inspyre_entInstagram- Inspyre_entwww.youtube.com/channel/UColYJJwh…iew_as=subscriber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another guest on the show! No we're not bored of each other just yet. Annotate's social links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annotate/ Instagram: Annotate_ Twitter: Annotate_ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKdeFKyVkMQ0JB1Y3eHUnw Gratitude video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_YXjSxiPf0 Show notes: This week we read 'Heterogeneous' by Anthony Anaxagorou. A poetry book which covers a wide variety of societal and personal issues. He uses an extensive poetic arsenal to express his feelings address these issues in a manner which can captivate the reader. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can do this anonymously via this Curious Cat link: https://curiouscat.me/inspyre_ent Description In this Podcast we'll be reviewing/discussing a book we've read on a weekly basis. The pod is a lot more interesting than this description, so stick your headphones on and relax whilst you listen to our soothing voices. Hosted by Mohamed Imam and Sharmarke Ahmed of Inspyre Entertainment. Twitter MI- _mimam SA- sharkz_96 Instagram MI- m_imam1 SA- sharkz17 Inspyre Entertainment Twitter- Inspyre_ent Instagram- Inspyre_ent www.youtube.com/channel/UColYJJwh…iew_as=subscriber

This month we head out of Dumbo Feather HQ and take you on an adventure to the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival, when we parked our caravan up at Federation Square and welcomed writers in for intimate conversations with a small audience. First up is British poet and educator Anthony Anaxagorou, a man who thinks deeply about each word he uses and the importance of being vulnerable. Then, we hear from Neil Strauss, New York Times best-selling author of The Game—a book which lead him to some pretty big realisations about himself and what makes a healthy relationship. The interviews in this episode were conducted by Nathan Scolaro and Mele-Ane Havea. This episode was produced by Beth Gibson. Music by Dennis Liu. We would also like to thank our friends at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. This podcast is sponsored by Bank Australia.

Paul Mayhew-Archer, Ros Barber, Anthony Anaxagorou and Bob Chaundy join our host David Freeman for this episode of Ex Libris After Dark, recorded in front of a live audience in Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford on 10th March 2017 Ros Barber – poet, scholar and an award winning and critically acclaimed author. Her first novel, The Marlowe […]

Paul Mayhew-Archer, Ros Barber, Anthony Anaxagorou and Bob Chaundy join our host David Freeman for this episode of Ex Libris After Dark, recorded in front of a live audience in Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford on 10th March 2017 Ros Barber – poet, scholar and an award winning and critically acclaimed author. Her first novel, The Marlowe […] The post Ex Libris After Dark Episode 10.2 first appeared on Oxford Games.

This episode is in two parts. A transcript of this conversation is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-99-come-rhyme-with-me-anthony-anaxagorou-lpp-transcript.pdf Part One: David Turner talks to Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger about their regular poetry night, Come Rhyme With Me which takes place at Ovalhouse Theatre in south London. https://www.facebook.com/ComeRhymeWithUs/ https://twitter.com/comerhymewithus https://sites.google.com/site/deanatta/about https://deannarodger.co.uk/ Part Two (30:58): David Turner talks to Anthony Anaxagorou about his poetry organisation, Out-Spoken. The pair discuss live events, publishing and writing masterclasses under the Out-Spoken umbrella. https://twitter.com/OutSpokenLDN http://www.outspokenldn.com/ http://anthonyanaxagorou.com/

Actors Charles Dance and Jason Isaacs are taking a lead in The Climate Coalition's Show the Love campaign this February. They've given their time to star in a short film made by Ridley Scott Associates featuring the poetry of Anthony Anaxagorou and the music of Elbow.  The things we love could change forever due to climate change and that's the message of the video. On this edition of Nature's Voice Jane Markham talks to Fiona Dear from The Climate Change Coalition about the film and campaign and to the RSPB's conservation director Martin Harper about special places under threat.

John Wilson is joined by cultural figures including Phil Redmond, Val McDermid, Dreda Say Mitchell, Rufus Norris, Wayne Hemingway, Samuel West, Jane and Louise Wilson, George the Poet and Anthony Anaxagorou to discuss how Britain's creative community can and should respond to the divisions in British society exposed by the EU Referendum result. With an audience at The Royal Society of Arts in London, they explore whether Brexit presents an artistic opportunity, if it signals a retreat from European culture, how it will be reflected in the books, films, plays and music of the next few years, and what art can do to help us navigate the realities of post-Brexit BritainProducer: Dixi Stewart.

On 4 May 2016, Quilliam Foundation, in collaboration with Free Word, presented an evening of rhyming, rapping and rhythm about radicalisation, race, Islamic State, integration, stereotypes and the story of us. This event featured performances from Anthony Anaxagorou, Joelle Taylor, Adam Kammerling and Kareem Parkins-Brown. Rafiq Richards provided comedy, and the evening was compered by Moj Taylor. Part of Unravelling Europe: http://buff.ly/28PQUk3

Anthony Anaxagorou on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1473.

Anthony Anaxagorou is  a 31 yr old Poet, writer, performer and educator of Cypriot origin from North LondonAnthony began writing at the age of 14 influenced by both hip-hop and folk music and at 17 won the London Mayors Poetry Slam and LATER went on to perform on the BBC many times 

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is celebrated at the Salon: Spain, Ireland, Britain and Abortion Rights: International Day of Families is celebrated in NW5 with Akala & Ny & lots of local young performers who have been working with the poet Anthony Anaxagorou; Photographing Children – for parents, emailclarebans@aol.com: Book ahead for Eleanor McEvoy at the Jazz Cafe Read by: Ann Carroll Recorded by: Freddy Chick Edited by: Marian Larragy Mrs Dalloway :: Abortion Rights :: Queen's Crescent Community Association :: Belsize Park Library :: Eleanor McEvoy :: Sean Taylor :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on twitter :: File Download (4:26 min / 4 MB)