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‘It’s like buying one of those sandwiches that has been cut in two: it looks like it’s chock full of delicious filling, but when you unwrap it, the edges are mostly bread and butter.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AbI2B #nonsenseverse #LewisCarroll #Jabberwocky

‘So the poetry is in the pity, but writing poetry also requires a certain absence of pity.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AORVq #poetry #WilfredOwen #warpoems

‘The beautiful simplicity of the ending wouldn’t be half as beautiful without the tortuous complexity that precedes it. So like a true oxymoronic Petrarchan, Sidney is having his poetic cake and eating it.’ Listen: lttr.ai/AbK7z #poetry #PhilipSidney #sonnet

‘Jabberwocky shows a master illusionist at work, using all the linguistic and imaginative resources he can muster to achieve maximum effect with minimal effort.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AbWrv #nonsenseverse #nonsensepoetry #LewisCarroll #Jabberwocky

‘There are times when I write poems, and I really try to get that perfect, smooth surface. And this time, I really wanted to leave the rough edges on.’ Alicia E. Stallings discusses ‘Empathy’ from This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press) Listen: lttr.ai/AbZP7 #poetry

The New Carthaginians by Dr Nick Makoha is published today by Penguin Books UK He was kind enough to read and discuss a poem from the book in today's podcast. Listen: lttr.ai/Ab0hi #poetry

‘The Jabberwock is obviously a monster of some kind, and as all monster movie directors know, the monster you don’t quite see is the scariest monster of all.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/Ab4sW #nonsenseverse #nonsensepoetry #LewisCarroll #Jabberwocky

‘What I wanted to do was what Basquiat does with paintings. He turns paintings into poetry, so I wanted to turn poetry into a painting. ’ Dr Nick Makoha reads from The New Carthaginians (Penguin Books UK) and discusses the book. Listen: lttr.ai/Ab6Or #poetry

‘Because this story is not in the news. The stories that they have of my country are not the ones that I’m trying to tell.’ Dr Nick Makoha reads from The New Carthaginians (Penguin Books UK) and discusses the book. Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AcFUe #poetry

‘That’s what colour is, it inhabits all these different ideas. That’s why it is such a long poem because there’s just so much to include. ’ Zaina discusses ‘Reddest Red’ from In the Name of Red (The Emma Press) Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AcPLy #poetry

‘That surrealism means there's a narrative happening in the world and there’s a narrative I have to accept as a Black body. The footnote allows two worlds to exist at once.’ Dr Nick Makoha discusses The New Carthaginians (Penguin Books UK) Listen: lttr.ai/AcVWu #poetry

‘I wondered if I could put the whole of my emotions, my history, my life, my, my loves into one poem.’ Dr Nick Makoha reads from The New Carthaginians (Penguin Books UK) and discusses the book. Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AdAkj #poetry

Don't miss the brilliant new episode of "A Mouthful Of Air" featuring a unique poem that has introduced me to the concept of psychogeography! amouthfulofair.fm/desire-path-ju… Mark McGuinness A Mouthful of Air Jude Rosen carrieetter.bsky.social

In this podcast Jude Rosen (Jude Rosen) reads and discusses ‘Desire Path’ from Reclamations from London's Edgelands (Paekakariki Press). Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AdPHK #poetry

‘Lammas lands were originally where commoners had rights to graze their animals after the harvest. And I was part of an artistic collective resisting Olympic encroachment onto the marshlands.’ Jude Rosen (@poemwalks) Listen: lttr.ai/AdVUo #poetry

‘It’s really poetry coming out of the body... walking and breathing and words being somehow all integrated. And some of that is the influence of psychogeography.’ Jude Rosen (Jude Rosen) Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AdgxR #poetry

‘Psychogeography is the idea that the geography, the physical environment is also imbued with spiritual and emotional and cultural power. It’s not simply grass and trees and leaves and plants.’ Jude Rosen (Jude Rosen) Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AdyE6 #poetry

‘Carroll is a clever poet, not just at inventing words, but also artfully deploying them, front-loading the poem with lots of them, but measuring them out judiciously in the middle.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AeLru #nonsenseverse #LewisCarroll #Jabberwocky

‘One of the impulses in ‘The Desire Path’ is that by walking it you’re also remaking it. The idea of the desire path is that it’s an alternative path to that imposed by authority, by the state.’ Jude Rosen (@poemwalks) Listen to the podcast: lttr.ai/AeU9l #poetry

‘The sort of song meter here... has a kind of childlike and lullaby-like association with it. So, for me, it’s good for poems about children.’ Alicia E. Stallings discusses ‘Empathy’ from This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press) Listen: lttr.ai/Aeq8Y #poetry