Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar Arji Manuelpillai

Immensely proud and thankful to PBS for bringing Paul Muldoon into the studio.



Paul Muldoon is so big he's off the charts. I don't think there's many awards he hasn't won in his huge career. Today we celebrate his 14th book 'With Joy in Service on Rue Tagore'.


We chat about all things poetry, about what it's like doing poems for that long, about his practice, his muse, the work and the joys of fact checkers.



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He's a tour de force for poetry. The pioneer of some ridiculously good live poetry events. A workshop facilitator, a father and the author of a brilliant debut called Manorisms. That book was shortlisted for the Eliots and the Rathbones. It is of course Yomi Sode and today he's brought a Gary Soto poem in called Oranges. You going to love this one!

We're finally back.

This week I'm joined by Golnoosh Nour. A Tehran born poet who has two fantastic collections. The most recent was Rocksong on Verve and it blew my face off. So I invited her in to talk about a poet and poem she really loves. Amongst Darkness by Forough-farrokhzad.



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This week we are taking a trip to Birmingham to celebrate with the crew from Uni_Slam.

Uni_Slam is a huge event that takes place yearly in The Birmingham Hippodrome. Each year University students come together to share their poems in a competition that celebrates the diversity of poetry in this country.

On the same weekend the Uni_Slam team invites to the festival some of the Poetry Collectives that hold some of the best emerging poets of the scene.



I am honoured to give a podcast stage to some of those collectives.



In this episode we listen to poets from

Roundhouse Poetry Collective

The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network Collective

Barbican Young Poets 

Nottingham's Speak Easy

South Yorkshire's : Hive Young Poets

Manchester's Young Identity



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Happy to be back here to present another special speaking with the wonderful Victoria Kennefick 



Victoria grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry,



Today she talks about her new book 'Egg/Shell' and reads her favourite poem from it.

I am so massively excited to bring Kwame Dawes into the Pickle Jar.



He is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared.  He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program.  He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

Often called 'the busiest man in literature', Today he joins us to talk about his new book Sturge Town.



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