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23 - Maggie Bowyer Poetry To Your Ears
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Listen to our conversation with Maggie Bowyer about their latest poetry collection Allergies, poems about grief and love. (Maggie Bowyer, 2023)
We talked about Maggie’s mother’s death and their first love’s death, the process of writing about grief, why this collection is relevant for all of us after two years in a pandemic, writing from home about home as a chronically ill person, finding beauty in the specific, writing list poems, self-publishing, the different poetry scenes in the South of the United States, and much more.
Maggie Bowyer (they/them/theirs) is a poet, cat parent, and the author of various poetry collections including Ungodly (2022) and When I Bleed (2021). They are an essayist with a focus on Endometriosis, chronic pain, and trauma. They have been featured in Bourgeon Magazine, Capsule Stories, Plainsongs Poetry Magazine, The Abbey Review, Troublemaker Firestarter, Wishbone Words, and more. The were the Editor-in-Chief of The Lariat Newspaper, a quarter-finalist in Brave New Voices 2016, and they were a Marilyn Miller Poet Laureate. You can find their work on Instagram and TikTok @maggie.writes.
Poetry To Your Ears is now sponsored by Bent Key Publishing, an indie micro-publisher that champions neurodiverse artists and writers from other marginalised groups. You can get a 10% discount on all books with the code POETRYTOYOUREARS10. This code doesn’t apply to zines but it covers all books on their website www.bentkeypublishing.co.uk. We hope you’ll find a poetry book you like and tell us on social media if you purchase one!
CREDITS: Poetry To Your Eears is an independent podcast co-hosted and co-produced by Tom O’Dwyer and Éloïse “Loulou” Armary, in partnership with YDN Radio Brighton. The episode was recorded on Riverside.fm in January 2022. The soundtrack is ‘Dans la peau’ by Circus Marcus and the art cover is by Charlotte Gray - @grayglues.
Instagram/TikTok/Youtube: @poetrytoyourears Twitter: @poetry2yourears Substack: www.poetrytoyourears.substack.comEmail: poetrytoyourearspodcast (at) gmail (dot) comAll links: www.linktr.ee/poetrytoyourears
Poetry To Your Ears is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit poetrytoyourears.substack.com
Listen to our conversation with Maggie Bowyer about their latest poetry collection Allergies, poems about grief and love. (Maggie Bowyer, 2023)
We talked about Maggie’s mother’s death and their first love’s death, the process of writing about grief, why this collection is relevant for all of us after two years in a pandemic, writing from home about home as a chronically ill person, finding beauty in the specific, writing list poems, self-publishing, the different poetry scenes in the South of the United States, and much more.
Maggie Bowyer (they/them/theirs) is a poet, cat parent, and the author of various poetry collections including Ungodly (2022) and When I Bleed (2021). They are an essayist with a focus on Endometriosis, chronic pain, and trauma. They have been featured in Bourgeon Magazine, Capsule Stories, Plainsongs Poetry Magazine, The Abbey Review, Troublemaker Firestarter, Wishbone Words, and more. The were the Editor-in-Chief of The Lariat Newspaper, a quarter-finalist in Brave New Voices 2016, and they were a Marilyn Miller Poet Laureate. You can find their work on Instagram and TikTok @maggie.writes.
Poetry To Your Ears is now sponsored by Bent Key Publishing, an indie micro-publisher that champions neurodiverse artists and writers from other marginalised groups. You can get a 10% discount on all books with the code POETRYTOYOUREARS10. This code doesn’t apply to zines but it covers all books on their website www.bentkeypublishing.co.uk. We hope you’ll find a poetry book you like and tell us on social media if you purchase one!
CREDITS: Poetry To Your Eears is an independent podcast co-hosted and co-produced by Tom O’Dwyer and Éloïse “Loulou” Armary, in partnership with YDN Radio Brighton. The episode was recorded on Riverside.fm in January 2022. The soundtrack is ‘Dans la peau’ by Circus Marcus and the art cover is by Charlotte Gray - @grayglues.
Instagram/TikTok/Youtube: @poetrytoyourears Twitter: @poetry2yourears Substack: www.poetrytoyourears.substack.comEmail: poetrytoyourearspodcast (at) gmail (dot) comAll links: www.linktr.ee/poetrytoyourears
Poetry To Your Ears is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit poetrytoyourears.substack.com
1 hr 4 min