Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Saira Anwar.
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@andynartist.bsky.socialLatest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Saira Anwar.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialWhich poem should the podcast read next? A classic, a modern find, a lifelong favourite. Email [email protected] and you're in the draw for a signed copy of “North Yorkshire In Verse – Moor To Shore In Poetry”.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialOn this week's episode I say it plainly: if you write about work you never did yourself, say so, at least to yourself. Then listen before you describe. The people who worked a place know its sounds and smells far better than any visitor.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialThe furnace went out. The town did not.
Episode 47 is live: Kipling's machines, proud and cold, and Redcar, where the fire died eleven years ago this week and the tide kept working.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialBehind tomorrow's episode: Kipling's machines say they were cast, hammered and filed, and never mention a single person who did it. That omission is the way into this week's Redcar poem. New episode, Wednesday morning.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialThe next guest poem on the podcast could be yours. Email a suggestion to [email protected] and you're in the draw for a signed copy of North Yorkshire In Verse.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialIn 1819, Wordsworth looked at Malham Cove and wondered if giants dug it. Nice try, William. It was 330 million years of limestone and one very patient ice age.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialThe river went underground. The cove kept its shape. New episode of the podcast is live now — Tennyson's In Memoriam, paired with Malham Cove, carved by ice and time alone.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialWednesday's episode: Tennyson grieving his closest friend while geology quietly dismantles his sense of permanence, paired with a Yorkshire cliff shaped by nothing but ice and time.
New episode, Wednesday 6am.
@andynartist.bsky.socialLatest up from Spoken Label is the fantastic ‘Charley’ with part 2 of an extended Podcast.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialEvery episode pairs a guest poem with one of my own. Suggest the next one — email [email protected] — and you're entered to win a signed copy of North Yorkshire In Verse.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialHelmsley Castle, a soap opera in four acts: a general besieges it, the surrender terms demand its demolition, and his daughter marries straight back into the family who lost it. Yorkshire property disputes hit different.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialTime takes the blame for every ruin. At Helmsley, somebody gave the order. New episode of the podcast is live now — Spenser's vanished Roman city, paired with the Yorkshire castle that was broken on purpose.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialWednesday's episode: a 400-year-old poem spoken by a Roman city that's vanished completely, paired with a Yorkshire castle ruined not by time, but by agreement — demolished on purpose, with gunpowder.
New episode, Wednesday 10am.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialEvery episode pairs a guest poem with one of my own — and the next guest poem could be yours.
Email a suggestion to [email protected] for a chance to win a signed copy of North Yorkshire In Verse.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialCaedmon, later credited with the oldest surviving poem in English, reportedly used to leave parties before the harp reached him. Painfully relatable.
He went out to the cow shed instead and woke up a poet. Some of us are still waiting.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialThe drowned city fell silent. The ruined abbey never did. New episode of the podcast is live now — Poe's City in the Sea, paired with Whitby Abbey, the poem closest to home for me.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialTomorrow's podcast: a drowned city Poe built almost entirely from what ISN'T there, paired with a Yorkshire abbey that's been rewritten every few centuries since a shy cowherd woke up a poet on its clifftop.
New episode, Wednesday 6am.
@andynartist.bsky.socialLatest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features making his debut, David Hardy.
@aldencarrow.bsky.socialThis week’s episode argues a place doesn't need to earn attention with tragedy. Somerset In Verse – Exmoor To Levels In Poetry has reactors and drowned villages, but Simonsbath's the one I like most: nothing there is trying to be forgiven.