The Two-Way Poetry Podcast: What’s It All About

In this episode, Chris Jones introduces The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, a biweekly series of interviews where he speaks to poets about their own creative inspirations and practice. He says a little about himself, and discusses the background to the show, reflecting on how writers are influenced by the texts they read. He reflects on the idea that when poets create poems they are often ‘in conversation’ with other writers’ works.  How do poems talk away to other poems? An intriguing prospect if you are eavesdropping on this communication, but also possibly distancing as well if you don’t share the intimate knowledge that is being passed on. This is what the podcast will look to explore in depth: what poets understand about this process of responding to texts, poems that they have read. In the first upcoming podcast Chris will talk to the poet Rob Hindle about William Blake’s poem ‘The Sick Rose’ and how it influenced, played a part in the writing of his own piece ‘The Sick Rose’ from his collection Sapo (Longbarrow Press).