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This week, Emily cracks into the world building of secret-and-story-filled The Binding by Bridget Collins, while Rebecca shares some poetry about arty experiences from Jane Yeh's Discipline. We also use the writing corner to discuss using real or fake locations, and what visual stimuli inspires us. Emily also shares the story behind amethysts! We experience a few sound glitches in this episode, we apologise! Our infatuations: The Binding - Bridget Collins Discipline - Jane Yeh Downfall - Ripe Ditty in a Dash - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ditty-in-a-dash/id1515347515 Girl Love Luna - https://instagram.com/girl_love_luna Follow us: infatuatedpodcast@outlook.com Instagram - https://instagram.com/infatuatedpod Twitter - https://twitter.com/infatuatedpod Emily's Instagram - https://instagram.com/emiloue_ Emily's Twitter - https://twitter.com/emiloue_ Rebecca's Instagram - https://instagram.com/grammour.puss Rebecca's Twitter - https://twitter.com/grammourpuss Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Mona Arshi, one of three judges in the 2019 National Poetry Competition, joins Wayne Holloway-Smith, the winner of the 2018 National Poetry Competition, to talk to Oliver Fox about what makes a successful poem. They discuss two prize winning poems from the competition's history: 'Oiled Legs Have Their Own Subtext' by Momtaza Mehri (3rd Prize, 2017), and 'The Body in the Library' by Jane Yeh (commended, 2009). If you'd like to enter the National Poetry Competition for yourself, the deadline for entries is 31 October each year. To find out how to enter, visit poetrysociety.org.uk/npc. Links to featured poems: 'Oiled Legs Have Their Own Subtext' by Momtaza Mehri: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/oiled-legs-have-their-own-subtext 'The Body in the Library' by Jane Yeh: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-body-in-the-library/
This week, Tom Overton talks to Sarah Shin (co-founder of Ignota Books) and So Mayer (author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and other books) about new currents in feminist poetry and politics that use magic and myth-making as tools to reconsider the world, and create new narratives that might improve it. The show also includes readings from Jen Calleja, Lucy Mercer and Jane Yeh, all of whom feature in Ignota's debut publication 'Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry' - which will be on sale at the New Suns feminist festival at the Barbican on Saturday 3 November. SELECTED REFERENCES Ignota Books - https://ignota.org/ New Suns festival - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-a-feminist-literary-festival Feminist Library crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-feminist-library-build-its-new-home WALTER BENJAMIN, The Arcades Project John Berger Nicole Bettencourt Coelho Tarana Burke (#MeToo) OCTAVIA BUTLER - Parable of the Talents (1988) - https://io9.gizmodo.com/archives-reveal-what-octavia-butlers-next-books-would-h-1590584994 JEN CALLEJA – Serious Justice (2016) - https://testcentre.org.uk/product/serious-justice/ FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (2018) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/ CA Conrad SARAH FAITH GOTTESDIENER, Many Moons - https://visualmagic.info/many-moons-workbooks-archive/ ROXANE GAY (ed.), Not That Bad (2018) - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/not-that-bad/ DONNA HARAWAY, Staying with the Trouble (2016) - http://thechart.me/book-review-donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble/ Hildegard von Bingen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen Zora Neale Hurston Bhanu Kapil - http://clinicpresents.tictail.com/product/threads LAO TZU - Tao Te Ching - https://www.shambhala.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-896.html Ursula K. Le Guin - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin Huw Lemmey AUDRE LORDE, ‘Poetry is a Luxury’ - https://www.silverpress.org/your-silence-will-not-protect-you/ Terence McKenna - https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/pam38b/terence-mckenna-zuvuya-dream-matrix-telemetry-interview Lucy Mercer - http://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/lucy-mercer/ Nisha Ramayya Sabrina Scott - https://www.witchbody.com/ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline (1623) Victoria Sin - http://victoriasin.co.uk/ Sriwhana Spong – a hook but no fish (exhibition) - https://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/a-hook-but-no-fish REBECCA TAMÁS – Savage - https://poetryschool.com/reviews/review-savage-rebecca-tamas/ Simone Weil Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (dir. Arwen Curry, 2018) - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin-pg-screentalk JANE YEH, The Ninjas (2012) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/the-ninjas-jane-yeh-poetry-review
This episode is in two parts: Part one - David Turner is in London chatting to Jane Yeh about assuming personas and writing characters into her poetry, why fiction is such a common starting point for her poems and the influence that fine art, particularly 'old-master paintings' has on her creative practice. Some links relating to this section: https://www.janeyeh3.com/ https://twitter.com/JaneYeh3 https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=838 https://tornn.me/ Part two (00:48:07) - David Turner is in Birmingham at this year's Verve Poetry Festival interviewing Roy McFarlane in front of a live audience. Roy explains how important it is for him to try and convey the sounds of his home city through his poetry and how, often, characters in his poems are a composite of many people. Some links for this section: http://www.roymcfarlane.com/ https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/the%20healing%20next%20time.html Download a full transcript here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/ep115-jane-yeh-roy-mcfarlane-transcript.pdf Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: https://snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/
In the third episode, Rachael and Jack chat in the studio with Richard Scott and Jane Yeh, discussing, among other things, the importance of recognising gay shame, the difference between biographical honesty and poetic honesty and a shared love for Star Trek (The Next Generation, obviously). Audio postcards this episode come from Peter Gizzi, Emily Toder and Hannah Sullivan. As always the show notes, author bios and links can be found on [our website](https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/faber-poetry-podcast-episode-three-richard-scott-jane-yeh/). We can’t believe we’re half way through our first series… If you’ve not heard our first two episodes then you can listen here or on iTunes or your favourite audio platform. If you like the show subscribe now so you don’t miss forthcoming episodes in our first six-part series. The Faber Poetry Podcast is produced by Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Hannah Marshall for Faber & Faber. Edited by Billy Godfrey at Strathmore Publishing. Special thanks to Peter Gizzi, Richard Scott, Hannah Sullivan, Emily Toder and Jane Yeh.
The prize-wining American poet Jane Yeh, author of Marabou and The Ninjas (both Carcanet) talks to Sarah Howe, co-editor of the winter issue of The Poetry Review. They discuss Yeh's use of dramatic monologue and the often fantastical personas she adopts (ninjas, rabbits, androids) to hilarious effect. “I think of Oscar Wilde's phrase, ‘the truth of masks' – how when you wear a mask it reveals your identity in a way,” Yeh explains. They also discuss contemporary art, installations and film and influences such as Amy Woolard, Stephen Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido and the work of fellow-writers Safiya Sinclair, Ocean Vuong and Timothy Donnelly. Yeh reads her poems ‘Rabbit Empire' and ‘A Short History of Patience', first published in The Poetry Review. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk
You’re now at the John Harvard Statue. Here is Harvard junior Dylan Perese reading Harvard alumna Jane Yeh’s poem “Case Study: Cambridge, Massachusetts.”