Dandelions Poetry Podcast Caroline Stancer and Birgit Friedrich

Recording of theDandelions Poetry Open Mic night held in Nottingham on 22nd April 2024.

There are a couple of F bombs in the recording hence the explicit label but nothing too severe.

Readers are below and the time at which their poetry begins

Roland Nelken (!m 30s)

Anne Gallagher (7m 30s)

Martin (10m 40s)

Jake (18m)

Clare (22m)

Cecilia (24m)

Kevin (30m 30s)

Chris Oliver (32m 30s)

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Dandelions Poetry Podcastis produced by Stuart Vincent Moore

Art work by Eric Miller

Music by Ella Jean

Open Mic readers from the Dandelions Potry Open Mic Night in Nottingham March 2024

Readers in this episode were

Charlie Baylis

Jo

Birgit Friedrich

Caroline Stancer

Unfortunately we didn't press record in the first half of the evening so missed a lot of the readers, future podcasts will record and include all poets that read on the night if they want to be featured

Check the Dandelions Poetry Facebook event page for future open mic nights

https://www.facebook.com/groups/657680625858950/events

Get in touch

Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com

Maria Taylor is a British Cypriot poet and reviewer. Her latest collection is Dressing for the Afterlife (Nine Arches Press). Her debut collection of poetry, Melanchrini, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2012 and shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Maria has been published widely, including poems and reviews in The Guardian, Magma and The Times Literary Supplement. Maria has been highly commended in the UK Forward Prizes for poetry, she also works as reviews editor for Under the Radar and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at DMU. She tweets at @MariaTaylor_

Kathleen Bell grew up on the ninth floor of a well-designed council block with “the best views in London” but for the past thirty years has made her home in Nottingham.

Kathy has won first prize in the Nottingham Poetry Competition (judged by Liz Berry), second prize in the Brittle Star Competition (judged by George Szirtes) as well as being longlisted in the National Poetry and Mslexia competitions and commended elsewhere.

She co-edited the fundraising anthology Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge (Five Leaves, 2015). Her poetry pamphlet at the memory exchange (Oystercatcher, 2014) was shortlisted in the Saboteur awards. In 2021, having escaped from the demands of academia into the quiet of the Covid era, she finally published her first full collection, Disappearances (Shoestring Press) as well as the lockdown pamphlet, Do You Know How Kind I Am? (Leafe)

She has also published a handful of short stories, written two unpublished novels and enjoys reviewing other poets’ work


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Or contact Dandelions at Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com

Podcast Production by Stuart Vincent Moore

Artwork by Eric Miller

Music by Ella Jean

This episode Caroline and Birgit are in conversation with Gregory Woods. 

Gregory has six poetry collections published with Carcanet Press, all of which are listed on his website along with his non-fiction works, see link below 

https://www.gregorywoods.co.uk/index.shtml 

A well-respected and familiar member of the Nottingham literary community Gregory has so much experience and knowledge that it is impossible for him not to say anything interesting.  

For Dandelions Poetry events please visit the Facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/657680625858950?locale=en_GB 

You can also contact Dandelions poetry by email 

Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com 

Dandelions Poetry Podcast is produced by Stuart Vincent Moore 

Artwork by Eric Miller 

Music by Ella Jean 

In this episode Caroline and Birgit talk to Annette Pateman

Annette had some wonderful insights into folklore, a terrific list of recomended authors and works to help inspire, and some good tips to get words on the page.



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Contact us at Dandelionspoetry@gmail.com
Produced by Stuart Vincent Moore
Music by Ella Jean
Artwork by Eric Miller