Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar

Arji Manuelpillai
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Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar is a place where we pickle the poems you'll love. Each week we invite a published poet into the studio to share a poem they love. We dismantle and dissect it, we open it up so you the listener can see it in a completely new way. This podcast is for newcomers and professionals, for teachers, young people and for everyone in between.

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Ian Duhig

    We're back again. This week I'm joined by Ian Duhig, a poet who has won the Forward Best Poem Prize, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times.  A poet with six books to his name. A poet who continues to work with community projects pushing the power of words.  Today his book An Arbitrary Light Bulb is the winter selection for PBS and so we invited him into the Pickle Jar to talk about it.

    25 min

  2. OCT 29

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 47 - Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

    She's the winner of the Eric Gregory. Her new debut book Food for the Dead was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection and was the winner of the Laurel Prize 2024. Today we discuss Sharon Old's poem 'True Love'. As well as talk about experimental poetry, the power of poems and everything in between. Enjoy the vibes.

    17 min

  3. SEP 20

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Raymond Antrobus

    Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of Shapes & Disfigurements (Burning Eye, 2012) To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press, 2017), The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins / Tin House, 2018), All The Names Given (Picador / Tin House, 2021), Signs, Music (Picador / Tin House, 2024). His individual poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Granta, Poetry Foundation, Lit Hub, London Review of Books, The Poetry Review, The Deaf Poets Society and elsewhere. In 2019 he became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include The Ted Hughes Award, Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the year Award, Somerset Maugham Award and The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year 2018, as well as a shortlist for The Griffin Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. In 2018 he was awarded The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, (Judged by Ocean Vuong), for his poem Sound Machine. Also in 2019 and 2021 his poems (Jamaican British, The Perseverance and Happy Birthday Moon) was added to the UK’s GCSE syllabus Today we talk about his PBS CHOICE SELECTED Book Signs, Music.

    27 min

  4. SEP 3

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 46 - Gail McConnell

    So proud to get Gail McConnell into the studio today. She's the writer of two pamphlets and one amazing book. The Sun Is Open was brought out on Penned a few years back and it really is a groundbreaking book and well worth a read. It won the The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Award and The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize  and was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. It was a Poetry Book of the Month in the Guardian and in The Observer, a book of the year in the TLS and The White Review, and a poetry book of the year in The Telegraph and The Irish Times. The Sun is Open was warmly reviewed in the Dublin Review of Books, Some Flowers Soon and Blackbox Manifold. I wrote about the book in The Irish Times and further coverage appeared in The Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph. I discuss the book in conversation with Emily Berry for the Poetry Society podcast, with Pádraig Ó Tuama for the Corrymeela podcast and on Sunday with Steven Rainey on Radio Ulster. With Conor Garrett I made 'The Open Box', an arts feature based on the book for BBC Radio 4.  Today we talk extended metaphors, animals and descriptive language in this homage to the American poet Kay Ryan. The poem is called Spiderweb. Guys. If you are reading this PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE as it helps me a lot.

    17 min

  5. AUG 13

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 45 - Ellen Cranitch

    Very happy to be back with Ellen Cranitch in the Pickle Jar. She is a poet and lecturer. Her first collection, The Immortalist, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for Best First Collection. Her new collection, Crystal, was published by Bloodaxe, named “Dignified, moving and sure…" by The Observer where it was named book of the month, it was also recommended by Stephen Fry and Ian McMillan. Today she brings a Prynne Poem into the Pickle Jar and we speak of line breaks, intensity and the importance of syntax.

    18 min

  6. JUL 16

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 44 - Salena Godden

    With two books on the horizon, I'm extremely excited to bring Salena Godden into the Pickle Jar. Salena Godden is an English poet, author, activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist. Born in Hastings, UK, of Jamaican-Irish heritage, Godden based in London. Widely anthologised, she has published several books. She has also written for BBC TV and radio and has released four studio albums to date. Today we crack open a Nikita Gill poem to see what we can find.

    17 min

  7. JUL 2

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar - Ep. 43 - Bryony Littlefair

    Very excited to bring Bryony Littlefair into the Pickle Jar. Partly because her debut poetry collection Escape Room (Seren, 2022) was excellent. Also because her pamphlet Giraffe won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize in 2017. But mostly because we both LOVE Tony Hoagland. So here's us geeking out over Tony Hoagland for 20 minutes!

    21 min

  8. JUN 18

    Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Paul Muldoon

    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. I learnt alot in this episode and so will you. If you like the episode please SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE

    29 min
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Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar is a place where we pickle the poems you'll love. Each week we invite a published poet into the studio to share a poem they love. We dismantle and dissect it, we open it up so you the listener can see it in a completely new way. This podcast is for newcomers and professionals, for teachers, young people and for everyone in between.

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  • Creator
    Arji Manuelpillai
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    56
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Arji Manuelpillai
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