Episode 1: Louise Machen

The Gobful is a (mostly) poetry podcast interviewing poets and writers who have previously been a guest reader at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the The Golden Lion in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. In this episode, we talk to Louise Machen about her work. ouise Machen is a widely published Mancunian poet with an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester. She has a collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, with Hedgehog Press, a Forward Prize nominated collection, I Am Not Light, with Black Bough Poetry and a collaborative audiobook of poetry, Which Way the Words Grow.Go check out her website and go buy ger book HERE.Follow Gobsh!te on Instagram or Facebook. Our host is Michael Burton. Find out more about him on his Instagram or check out his work HERE.