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Poetry Bites — 81 episodes

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1

Chloe Elliott: 'Aupair'

2

Beth Davies: 'Final Visit'

3

David Tait: 'The Last Road Trip'

4

Tom Branfoot: a poem from This Is Not An Epiphany⁠⁠

5

Ben Bransfield: 'Joe'

6

Chrissy Banks: 'Frank'

7

Sally Baker: 'Ragwort'

8

Ian Harker: 'The Letters'

9

Thirza Clout: 'Breach'

10

Meg Cox: 'Sometimes It’s a Quiet Poem'

11

Nigel Pantling: 'The Axe Incident' (with introduction)

12

Sarah Wimbush: 'Our Language'

13

Serena Alagappan: 'slipface'

14

Cia Mangat: 'Detonator'

15

Jayant Kashyap: 'Prayer For My Mother as a Child'

16

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: 'Shooting'

17

Luke Samuel Yates: 'Going Somewhere'

18

Jim McElroy: 'Unmaking His Chair'

19

Dean Browne: 'Pineapple Massage'

20

Zoë Walkington: 'Imagine'

21

Jayant Kashyap: 'Notes on Burials'

22

Cia Mangat: 'Headliners'

23

Karen Downs-Barton: 'O Kukeli Korri: A Doll’s House'

24

Jon Miller: 'Eyes'

25

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: 'Welcome to Donetsk'

26

Alan Payne: 'Home' (with introduction)

27

Shash Trevett: 'These Were Their Names'

28

Tristram Fane Saunders: 'The Rake Packs Up His Troubles in an Old Kitbag and Smiles, Smiles, Smiles'

29

Chloe Elliott: 'Water'

30

Beth Davies: 'Rat Dissection'

31

David Tait: 'Remembering Glen Torridon'

32

Tom Branfoot: 'Lodgings'

33

Serena Alagappan: 'After the Mushroom at the End of the World'

34

Laurie Bolger: 'After Class'

35

Chrissy Banks: 'Ola'

36

Thirza Clout: 'Aunts'

37

Ben Bransfield: 'Bread'

38

Meg Cox: 'The Law of Unintended Consequences'

39

Alan Payne: 'Mahogany Eve'

40

Ian McMillan: 'Tone Found in Sonnet' (with introduction)

41

Nigel Pantling: 'Night Reconnaissance' (with introduction)

42

Rosalind Easton: 'Closet'

43

Dale Booton: 'E' (with introduction)

44

James Appleby: 'The Man I Saw Dead in the Road Reproaches Me' (with introduction)

45

Cliff Yates: 'Tonight in Kidderminster'

46

Caroline Bracken: 'Amor Matris'

47

Jen Feroze: 'I invite my grown-up daughter round for dinner'

48

Sarah Wimbush: 'Scargill'

49

Doreen Gurrey: 'The Rival'

50

Michael Schmidt: 'Also, Poor Yorick'

51

Laurie Bolger: 'Yoga'

52

Nigel Pantling: 'On Being Named After a Film Star' (with introduction)

53

Shash Trevett: 'These Were Their Names'

54

Alan Payne: 'Home' (with introduction)

55

Ian McMillan: 'Three flat caps at the bottom of the stairs'

56

River Wolton: '7th December' & '31st December' (from Year)

57

Caleb Leow: 'Hunger Pangs'

58

Caleb Leow: 'Fortune Teller Machine'

59

Freya Bantiff: 'Working Debenhams Late Shift'

60

Freya Bantiff: 'A Little Brown Rat'

61

River Wolton: '2nd November' & '7th November' (from Year)

62

River Wolton: '31st October' (from Year)

63

River Wolton: '9th September' (from Year)

64

River Wolton: '2nd August' (from Year)

65

River Wolton: '8th July' (from Year)

66

River Wolton: '13th June' (from Year)

67

River Wolton: '26th May' (from Year)

68

River Wolton: '18th April' (from Year)

69

River Wolton: '15th March' (from Year)

70

Ramona Herdman: 'The Moss Cure'

71

Ramona Herdman: 'Cocktail First'

72

Michael Greavy: 'The Nest'

73

Michael Greavy: 'Family Tree'

74

River Wolton: '3rd February' (from Year)

75

Lydia Harris: ‘There being no trace, no local knowledge’

76

Lydia Harris: ‘The wind in the chapel made of wrens’

77

River Wolton: '19th January' (from Year)

78

Lauren O'Donovan: 'The Day You Were Born'

79

Lauren O'Donovan: 'Ingredients for a Mother'

80

Clementine Burnley: 'Where I'm from'

81

Clementine Burnley: 'Transit 1'