Poetry Worth Hearing: Episode 14

Welcome to Episode 14 of Poetry Worth Hearing. This episode features poems about work. Most of us, poets included, spend most of our lives doing some kind of work for money. Usually, it is quite unrelated to poetry. However, surprisingly few poems are written about the work people do, what might be called 'the day job'. Here, we have an interview and reading from poet and vet, Ilse Pedler. She talks about how her two vocations work together and gives us a reading of some of her poems directly relating to her veterinary practice. We then have a huge range of poems, published and unpublished, which approach different kinds of work in different ways. Sometimes work itself is the theme, sometimes the job is an opportunity to explore other ideas. Poets include Sarah J. Bryson, Stephen Paul Wren, Alan Buckley, Pat Winslow, Merryn Williams, Dinah Livingstone, Roddy Maude-Roxby, David Burridge, Helen Overell, Jane Thomas, Philip Pollecoff, Carl Tomlinson and Sarah Watkinson.