Poetry on the Aire

Join Jack Collins and Matt Abbott for this episode of Poetry on the Aire! Spoken word is making huge waves across the poetry world and we’re chatting all about our favourite performers, why it’s such an important art form, and how it connects to the history of the oral form.

Jack and Poppy-Lee are joined by Izzy Brittain and Louise Fazackerley for a discussion on poetry and movement, and how they explore different forms of motion in their own practices as multi-disciplinary performing artists.

Jack Collins is sitting down with three of our 2023 competition judges, Matthew Hedley Stoppard, Nasser Hussain and Poppy-Lee Jennings, to get all the BTS insight into judging Out of Time.

It’s the return of Poetry on the Aire, the podcast hosted by PoppyLee Jennings and Jack Collins, that celebrates all things poetic in the city. Briony Spandler and Zara Sehar will be here chatting all things slam poetry with our hosts.

Jack Collins and Poppy Jennings are joined by queer artist, Elijah East! They're chatting about queer spaces, queer poetry and the ideas behind Virtues, Elijah's brand new zine.

In this episode Poppy sits down with Rachel Hall, Issie Bond and Leonie Howell. Content Warning: this podcast episode discusses sexual assault, violence against women, sex education and writing in response to trauma.

Jack and Poppy are joined by lecturer and poet Nasser Hussain and student poet Abbie Nolan for the second episode of Poetry on the Aire. They'll be chatting about exciting forms of poetry, rule-breaking, education and the changing focus on spoken word.

Join Jack Collins and Poppy Jennings as they chat with Rebecca Kenny about indie publishing, northern writing and the inspiration behind Bent Key Publishing.