Serge Neptune reads his poem 'A Queerness of Mermen'. For more from Serge: https://twitter.com/mermanpoet https://www.haranapoetry.com/iii19-a-child-comes-out-as-a-merman http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=15718 For the audio version of David Turner's 'Contained': soundcloud.com/david-turner-poetry/sets For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

a poem a week

Ep.89 - 'A Queerness of Mermen' by Serge Neptune

Ed Luker reads 'To Autumn' by John Keats. For more from Ed: https://twitter.com/lvkerlvker https://www.the87press.com/product-page/ed-luker-heavy-waters For the audio version of David Turner's 'Contained': https://soundcloud.com/david-turner-poetry/sets For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.88 - 'To Autumn' by John Keats (read by Ed Luker)

Emma Hammond reads a poem. For more from Emma: http://emmahammond.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/EHwords http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2015/09/the-story-of-no/ Emma's collection with Flipped Eye is 'Tunth-sk' (2011) David Turner 'Contained' audio: soundcloud.com/david-turner-poetry/sets For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.87 - [untitled] by Emma Hammond

Caspar Heinemann reads their poem 'A CHEMTRAIL IN CURVED AIR', taken from their poetry collection 'Novelty Theory' (the87press, 2019). For more from Caspar: https://www.the87press.com/product-page/novelty-theory-caspar-heinemann https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/CasparHeinemann David Turner 'Contained' audio: soundcloud.com/david-turner-poetry/sets For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.86 - 'A CHEMTRAIL IN CURVED AIR' by Caspar Heinemann

Vanessa Onwuemezi and Martin Wakefield read their collaborative poem 'Gestures of Departure', written especially for the podcast. For more from Vanessa: https://twitter.com/onwuemezi http://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-heart-of-things/ For more from Martin: https://twitter.com/martinwakefield https://hesterglock.net/Martin-Wakefield David Turner 'Contained' audio: https://soundcloud.com/david-turner-poetry/sets For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.85 - 'Gestures of Departure' by Vanessa Onwuemezi & Martin Wakefield

Ed Luker reads his poem 'On the Rock', taken from his collection 'Heavy Waters' (the87press, 2019). For more from Ed: https://twitter.com/lvkerlvker https://www.the87press.com/product-page/ed-luker-heavy-waters https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/events/runnymede-literary-festival-1/ For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.84 - 'On the Rock' by Ed Luker

Khairani Barokka reads 'The Abortionist's Granddaughter Gives Blood' by Shivanee Ramlochan, taken from Shivanee's poetry collection 'Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting' (Peepal Tree Press, 2017). For more from Shivanee: https://twitter.com/novelniche https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/everyone-knows-i-am-haunting https://novelniche.net/ https://myriadeditions.com/books/brave-new-words/ https://paperbased.org/ For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.83 - 'The Abortionist's Granddaughter Gives Blood' by Shivanee Ramlochan (Read by K. Barokka)

Bayan Goudarzpour reads 'Repentance' by Natasha Trethewey. Photo of Natasha: Nancy Crampton / Blue Flower Arts For more from Natasha: https://twitter.com/NTrethewey https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/natasha-trethewey/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/natasha-trethewey For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.82 - 'Repentance' by Natasha Trethewey (read by Bayan Goudarzpour)

Astrid Alben reads her poem 'Words To Say It'. For more from Astrid: https://www.astridalben.com/ https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plainspeak/ https://twitter.com/AstridAlben For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.81 - 'Words To Say It' by Astrid Alben

Nadia de Vries reads her poem 'I Am My Own Lapidary', from her upcoming poetry collection 'I Failed to Swoon'. For more from Nadia: http://www.nadiadevries.com/ https://twitter.com/nadiadvv https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/originals/dark_hour For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.80 - 'I Am My Own Lapidary' by Nadia de Vries

Calliope Michail reads her poem 'X', taken from her chapbook 'Along Mosaic Roads' (the87press, 2018). For more from Callie: https://www.the87press.com/product-page/along-mosaic-roads-by-calliope-michail https://penteractpress.com/store/the-nature-of-the-physical-word-calliope-michail https://twitter.com/catonacanto For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.79 - 'X' by Calliope Michail

George Reiner reads his poem 'Roses Grow Better in Horse Shit'. For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.78 - 'Roses Grow Better in Horse Shit' by George Reiner

Bayan Goudarzpour reads her poem 'Scene 1'. For more from Bayan: https://twitter.com/bayan_bdg https://twitter.com/heauxnoire For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.77 - 'Scene 1' by Bayan Goudarzpour

Matthew Haigh reads his poem 'Do you even lift bro?', taken from his collection 'Death Magazine' (Salt, 2019). For more from Matthew: https://www.matthewhaigh.net/ https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/death-magazine-9781784632069 https://twitter.com/MattHaighPoetry https://twitter.com/CRASHcardiff For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.76 - 'Do You Even Lift Bro?' by Matthew Haigh

Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset reads her poem 'caught in a loophole'. For more from Vilde Valerie: http://www.vildevalerie.com/ https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nordic https://sampsonlow.co/2019/03/25/swallowing-feathers-vilde-valerie-bjerke-torset/ https://penteractpress.com/store/no-title-vilde-valerie-bjerke-torset For more from us: lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/ Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Ep.75 - 'caught in a loophole' by Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset

A poetry podcast! The producers of Lunar Poetry Podcasts bring you a poem a week, taking you back to the simple joy of having a poem read to you. We aim to provide a mixture of new poems we're discovering, old favourites, current LPP features, and guest poets reading their own work.

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