Podcasts about young poet laureate

What might have been? A poet recalls flirtations and electric connections that could have led to a different life.Selina Nwulu is a writer of Nigerian heritage who is based in London. Her poetry and essays have been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films, and anthologies, including the critically-acclaimed anthology New Daughters of Africa. Her first chapbook collection, The Secrets I Let Slip, was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She has toured her poetry extensively, both internationally and throughout the U.K. in a number of cultural institutions. She has also been featured in Vogue, ES Magazine, i-D, and Blavity, among others. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, and Polish, and exhibited in Warsaw, New York, Dublin, and Glasgow. She was the Young Poet Laureate for London in 2015-16, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist for the 2021 U.K. Arts Award for Environmental Writing. A Little Resurrection is her debut full-length collection. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Selina Nwulu's poem, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.

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Warsan Shire er ein kritikarrost og prisvinnande britisk poet. I 2016 vart ho trekt fram av artisten Beyoncé som ei av hennar favoritt-poetar, og ho figurerer på albumet «Lemonade» og i filmen «Black Is King». I 2014 var ho første poet som fekk tittelen Young Poet Laureate of London.Shire er fødd av somaliske foreldre i Kenya og oppvaksen i Storbritannia, og har sagt at ho nyttar si eiga erfaring som innvandrar, så vel som erfaringar frå familie og kjende i det ho skriv.Dei to diktsamlingane hennar, Eg lærer mor mi å føde og Velsigne dottera oppdratt av ei stemme i hovudet, er begge gjendikta til norsk av Camara Lundestad Joof og Kristina Leganger Iversen. Her utforskar ho tema som oppvekst, mødrer og døtrer, svart identitet, migrasjon, familie og tru gjennom eit stilsikkert språk, der både referansar til popkultur og ord og frasar på somali er fletta inn.Athena Farrokhzad er ein svensk poet og forfattar, særleg kjent for debutsamlinga Vitsvit, om migrasjon, kvitheit og vald. På Litteraturhuset møtte ho Shire til ein samtale om poesi og marginaliserte menneske og erfaringar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Warsan Shire is a critically acclaimed and award winning British poet. In 2016, the artist Beyoncé named her one of her favorite poets, and she appears both on the album «Lemonade» and in the film «Black Is King». In 2014, she was the first poet named Young Poet Laureate of London.Shire, born to Somali parents in Kenya and raised in Great Britain, has said that she draws on her own experiences as an immigrant, as well as those of her family and friends in what she writes. Shire has published two chap books, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body as well as one full-length poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice In Her Head. Her poetry explores themes such as girlhood, mothers and daughters, black identity, migration, family and faith in a striking language, interspersed with both references to pop culture and phrases in Somali.Athena Farrokhzad is a Swedish poet and writer, best known for her debut collection Vitsvit (White Blight), about migration, whiteness and violence. At the Hourse of Literature she joined Shire for a conversation about poetry, marginalized people and their experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nyanda Foday was Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate 2016-2018, and is inspired by the impact that words can have to create, unite, explain and enjoy. She strives to connect with others where she can by sharing and listening to others' work. Joelle Avelino is a Congolese and Angolan illustrator and animator. She graduated from the University Of Hertfordshire in 2012 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration with Marketing. She has worked with many clients, including; BBC, Malala Fund, Elle Magazine, The Guardian and Google's Women Tech Makers Nyanda and Joelle joined Nikki #InTheReadingCorner to talk about the power of books, the importance of finding yourself in a  book and their book, Bookworms.About BookwormsWhat does a book mean to those who search for acceptance and understanding? A place to find friends, feel part of a family, or to be your true self. A good book takes you to new worlds, the right one shows you can exist in this one.Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. And if you are interested in the books we have featured, purchasing from our online bookshop Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. It is produced by Alison Hughes.Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates, follow us on Twitter @imaginecentreFull details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

What a ride this week! made a brilliant friend on this podcast & looking forward to hearing how her poetical journey unfolds - her new book 'Hagstone' is a thing of beauty, we hear a few of her poems in this episode! Georgina Wilding was crowned Nottingham's first Young Poet Laureate 2017 – 2019, and went on to accept the prestigious role of Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival until early 2021. In 2015 she set up the poetry publishing house, Mud Press, and in the same year graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class degree in Creative and Professional Writing. She spent the first five years of her career writing and performing as a member of the poetry collective ‘The Mouthy Poets' and has gone on to perform her work both nationally and internationally. Georgina has featured at events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, International Poetry Day:Granada, Sofar Sounds, Bright Spark, Hit the Ode, Straatstheatre Braunschweig and Off Milosz festival in Poland. As well as this, she has been commissioned by organisations such as The Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio Nottingham to write and perform, and has been invited to teach poetry for programmes such as the City Arts Refugee Forum collaboration, First Story, the National Literacy Trust, and Redhill Academy's specialisms week.

Series 8 Episode 3: Georgina Wilding - We talk about Georgina's collection ‘Hag Stone' out on Verve Poetry Press, being Nottingham's first Young Poet Laureate, working class roots, surrealism in poetry and much more! Poetry recitals from Georgina Wilding and Joe Hicklin of Big Special. Follow us on Instagram: @peoplespoetrypodcast Twitter: @people_poetry Facebook: People's Poetry Podcast Submissions/ letters to peoplespoetrypodcast@hotmail.com Episode links: Georgina Wilding Instagram: @georginawildingpoet Twitter: @WildingGeorgina www.georginawildingpoet.co.uk Jimmy Bowman Instagram: @jbopenspoems Twitter: @jbopenspoems

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Poet and activist Warsan Shire grew up in London. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015), and Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head (Random House, forthcoming 2021). Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and Sable LitMag; in the anthologies Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016); as well as in Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade (2016) and film Black Is King (2020).According to Alexis Okeowo in the New Yorker, Shire's work “embodies the kind of shape-shifting, culture-juggling spirit lurking in most people who can't trace their ancestors to their country's founding fathers, or whose ancestors look nothing like those fathers. In that limbo, Shire conjures up a new language for belonging and displacement.” Shire's poems connect gender, war, sex, and cultural assumptions; in her work, poetry is a healing agent for the trauma of exile and suffering. In an interview, Shire noted, “Character driven poetry is important for me—it's being able to tell the stories of those people, especially refugees and immigrants, that otherwise wouldn't be told, or they'll be told really inaccurately. And I don't want to write victims, or martyrs, or vacuous stereotypes … my family are really amazing—they'll tell me, ‘I have a new story for you,' and I'll get my Dictaphone and record it, so I can stay as true as possible to the story before I make it into a poem.”Shire has read her work in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 2013, she won Brunel University's first African Poetry Prize. In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2017 she was included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. In 2019 she wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising,narrated by Tess Thompson and David Oyelowo, and became the youngest person to ever be inducted into the Royal Society of Literature.Shire is poetry editor of Spook Magazine and guest edited Young Sable LitMag.For more information about Warsan Shire:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Suketu Mehta on Shire, at 09:18: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-079-suketu-mehtaTim Robbins on Shire, at 07:10: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-113-tim-robbinsHome read by Warsan Shire: "Home" by Warsan ShireNY Times: Warsan Shire, the Woman Who Gave Poetry to Beyoncé's ‘Lemonade'https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/arts/music/warsan-shire-who-gave-poetry-to-beyonces-lemonade.html

Today's Daily Quotation:Home by Warsan Shireno one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the whole city running as wellyour neighbors running faster than youbreath bloody in their throatsthe boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factoryis holding a gun bigger than his bodyyou only leave homewhen home won't let you stay.no one leaves home unless home chases youfire under feethot blood in your bellyit's not something you ever thought of doinguntil the blade burnt threats intoyour neckand even then you carried the anthem underyour breathonly tearing up your passport in an airport toiletsobbing as each mouthful of papermade it clear that you wouldn't be going back.you have to understand,that no one puts their children in a boatunless the water is safer than the landno one burns their palmsunder trainsbeneath carriagesno one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truckfeeding on newspaper unless the miles travelledmeans something more than journey.no one crawls under fencesno one wants to be beatenpitiedno one chooses refugee campsor strip searches where yourbody is left achingor prison,because prison is saferthan a city of fireand one prison guardin the nightis better than a truckloadof men who look like your fatherno one could take itno one could stomach itno one skin would be tough enoughthego home blacksrefugeesdirty immigrantsasylum seekerssucking our country dryniggers with their hands outthey smell strangesavagemessed up their country and now they wantto mess ours uphow do the wordsthe dirty looksroll off your backsmaybe because the blow is softerthan a limb torn offor the words are more tenderthan fourteen men betweenyour legsor the insults are easierto swallowthan rubblethan bonethan your child bodyin pieces.i want to go home,but home is the mouth of a sharkhome is the barrel of the gunand no one would leave homeunless home chased you to the shoreunless home told youto quicken your legsleave your clothes behindcrawl through the desertwade through the oceansdrownsavebe hungerbegforget prideyour survival is more importantno one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your earsaying-leave,run away from me nowi don't know what i've becomebut i know that anywhereis safer than here__________________________________________ Poet and activist Warsan Shire grew up in London. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015), and Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head (Random House, forthcoming 2021). Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and Sable LitMag; in the anthologies Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016); as well as in Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade (2016) and film Black Is King (2020).According to Alexis Okeowo in the New Yorker, Shire's work “embodies the kind of shape-shifting, culture-juggling spirit lurking in most people who can't trace their ancestors to their country's founding fathers, or whose ancestors look nothing like those fathers. In that limbo, Shire conjures up a new language for belonging and displacement.” Shire's poems connect gender, war, sex, and cultural assumptions; in her work, poetry is a healing agent for the trauma of exile and suffering. In an interview, Shire noted, “Character driven poetry is important for me—it's being able to tell the stories of those people, especially refugees and immigrants, that otherwise wouldn't be told, or they'll be told really inaccurately. And I don't want to write victims, or martyrs, or vacuous stereotypes … my family are really amazing—they'll tell me, ‘I have a new story for you,' and I'll get my Dictaphone and record it, so I can stay as true as possible to the story before I make it into a poem.”Shire has read her work in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 2013, she won Brunel University's first African Poetry Prize. In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2017 she was included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. In 2019 she wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising,narrated by Tess Thompson and David Oyelowo, and became the youngest person to ever be inducted into the Royal Society of Literature.Shire is poetry editor of Spook Magazine and guest edited Young Sable LitMag.

The winning script of our Young Writer's Competition, The Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind is set in the deep and murky subconscious of a troubled mind. We follow the footsteps of Sarah as she attempts to lunch with her mum, and bond with her sister, without her innermost thoughts brimming over the edge. Helen Monks is a writer from Birmingham, who's poetic style of writing caught the judges attention. Helen became Birmingham's first Young Poet Laureate in 2005, played Pip Archer in The Archers, Co-founded LUNG theatre, and played William Shakespeare's daughter in Upstart Crow. Helen is an accomplished playwright, winning many awards. Helen starred in Raised by Wolves on Channel 4. Helen wrote Chicken Salad of a Troubled Mind at the age of 20.

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Something of an artistic polymath at the age of 28, poet, actress and filmmaker Greta Bellamacina is Harrods’ first poet-in-residence. In episode two, Mariella meets the woman of many talents. “I think poetry and all good art should be for the people – it shouldn’t be reserved in dusty old books and art galleries.” Popularising poetry for a new generation, 28-year-old Greta Bellamacina is our first poet-in-residence here at Harrods. At the age of 23, she was shortlisted as Young Poet Laureate, before going on to edit three internationally-loved books including Smear, a powerful feminist anthology for young women. Not to be confined to pen and paper, Bellamacina first dipped her toe into the world of cinema on the set of Harry Potter, and has since co-written, directed and starred in an award-nominated new film Hurt By Paradise.

The Nottingham Poetry Festival starts this Friday - 20 April - and features a huge selection of fantastic poetry events across the city over nine days. To find out more about the festival we are joined on this weeks show by Nottingham's very first Young Poet Laureate Georgina Wilding. Georgina tells us what we can expect from the festival, plus we discuss how she got started in poetry, the opportunities that being the Young Poet Laureate offers her - from performing at fantastic events to being able to present workshops in schools, introducing a whole new generation to the world of poetry. We also discuss attitudes to poetry and more - all in NG Meets... Episode 8. Check out this fascinating chat with Georgina and then head along to the Nottingham Poetry Festival - you can find out a list of events here. Follow Georgina on Twitter

We start the new year by exploring our complex and glorious relationship to Food with writer and Great British Bake Off finalist, Ruby Tandoh, plus, the former Young Poet Laureate for London, Selina Nwulu; and other important voices. We cover food fads, in relation to class and body image; we analyse the language and labels we hear around food, and we ask whether politicising food is all too much. We profile one of Britain's most exciting young visual artists, Larry Achiampong, who has exhibited at London's Tate Britain / Modern, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts in Texas and is currently showing at the 57th Venice Biennale. Finally, we speak to the feminist print collective, See Red Women's Workshop, founded in 1974. We sit down with two original members of this collective to hear more about their new book and the significance of their work for second-wave feminism in the UK. Stance Podcast covers arts, culture and current affairs.

Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-16, Selina Nwulu, talks to us about her favourite word, 'querulous'.

Rosamund Pike talks to Kirsty Lang about her emotionally and physically demanding role in the much-anticipated screen adaptation of the crime thriller Gone Girl. Many operatic heroines die at the end - but not Minnie, the gun-toting heroine of Puccini's opera, The Girl Of The Golden West. Director Richard Jones and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson talk about this "wild west" opera at the ENO. 21 year-old Aisling Fahey has just been appointed Young Poet Laureate For London; she describes her beginnings in poetry using magnets on the fridge. And Sarah Crompton reviews ITV's upcoming 1950s mystery drama Grantchester, starring James Norton as clergyman turned sleuth Sidney Chambers alongside Robson Green as a police investigator. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Sarah Johnson.

Tony Parsons joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein. Tony talks about his new crime novel, The Murder Bag, and about his first foray into the genre of crime writing. He also talks about boxing, his Father and the importance of his family.Ian Boughton is the Grandson of Rutland Boughton, originator of the very first 'Glastonbury Festivals' and the composer of 'The Immortal Hour'. The festivals, which ran from 1914 to 1926, inspired Michael Eavis to start his own Glastonbury Festival and Ian talks about his Grandfather's work, his radicalism and the very first Glastonbury Festivals.Mia Cunningham is the first ever Young Poet Laureate of Shropshire. Her Grandfather Paul is a poet too and contributes his Wenlock Edge country diary to the Guardian Newspaper. They talk about family poetic DNA and why poetry is so important to them.Roger Beckett took up painting and sketching as a result of a trip to Spain where he stumbled across a public painting festival. He now runs 'Pintar Rapido', an event all are welcome to where you paint or sketch en masse in a day. The event celebrates the urban landscape and is in London on Saturday July 19th and 20th.Michael Ibsen is a Canadian cabinet maker working in London. He is the nephew of Richard lll 17 times removed and is making the coffin the King will be buried in next year. Michael talks about his famous relation and the coffin he's designing.JP Devlin meets Al Murray and they walk around the Imperial War Museum in London which is reopening in July after a major refurbishment.This week's Inheritance Tracks are from Mari Wilson, the beehive Queen of Neasden. She chooses The Folks Who Live on the Hill by Peggy Lee and How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by the Bee Gees.On Saturday evening, at York Minster, there's a major choral piece celebrating Le Grand Depart, the start of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, with 12 choirs and around 400 people chosen from along the 'Tour' route. Alex Lindley, a Saturday Live listener and one of the singers and organisers, wants to say 'Thank You' to everyone involved and tells us about the event.