Dickens and Quips - Poetry Pod

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Each week, poet Dee Dickens discusses a collection of poetry, which is her favourite and introduces you to a Line To Make You Go Ooooh!. She also has a guest on to discuss what they have been up to, poetry and otherwise. Join her as she wanders round a world of poetry that isn't entirely populated by old, white men.

  1. 12/15/2020

    12.5 Announcement

    Hello everyone. As is said in the announcement, I have been quite unwell over the last few weeks, so am going to take a rest and go on hiatus until the new year. Thank you so much for all your support so far, I am grateful to each and every one of you. Have a great December and I will see you all in January. Make good choices, write great poetry. email: dickensandquips@gmail.com twitter: @dickensandquips insta: @dickensandquips Dee: twitter: @thepontypoet insta: @thepontypoet facebook: facebook.com/deedickenswriter

  2. 12/08/2020

    12 Hannah Edge Collection Release Special!

    Welcome to the twelfth episode of Dickens and Quips!   This week we have a Hannah Edge special on the show and I shall be reading from her upcoming collection Those Days, These Days along with a bit of Anne Sexton. You can preorder Hannah's ebook here and I will update these show notes when the paperback is available for preorder too!   Find Hannah at observeandmuse_ehjee on Insta @edge_hannah on twitter     We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com   Prompt for this week is "Football" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.

  3. 11/23/2020

    11 Connor Sansby and Hannah Lowe

    Welcome to the eleventh episode of Dickens and Quips! It is a bumper episode this week with some juicy language but it is well worth listening to us go down some amazing poetry rabbit holes.   This week we have Whisky and Beards own Connor Sansby on the show and I shall be reading from Chick by Hannah Lowe   Find Connor at Connor Sansby Wordstuff on Facebook @whiskybeards on Insta @whiskybeards on Twitter Whisky and Beards Publishing on Facebook   Hannah Lowe can be found here And on twitter @hannahlowepoet   We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com   Prompt for this week is "all bears are gud boisl" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.   Featured collections: Chick by Hannah Lowe So You Want To Be a Writer by Charles Bukowski

  4. 11/16/2020

    10 Seterah Ebrahimi and Carrie Etter

    Welcome to the tenth episode of Dickens and Quips!   This week we have Seterah Ebrahimi on the show and I shall be reading from Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter You can buy Seterah's pamphlet In My Arms here You can buy Carrie Etter's Imagined Sons here   Carrie Etter can be found here twitter.com/carrie_etter   We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com   Prompt for this week is "I wait and wonder" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.       Featured collections/poems: Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter Skeleton by Rosemary McLeish     Line that makes you go OOOOOH! Imagined Sons 29: The Friend (Part 4) “I press my lips to each letter of his name”

  5. 11/09/2020

    09 Dervla O'Brien and Joe Thomas

    Welcome to the ninth episode of Dickens and Quips!   This week we have Dervla O'Brien on the show and I shall be reading from Cake, Liberty and Other Inexplicable Phenomena by Joe Thomas   Find Dervla at DervlaOBrien on Insta DervlaOBrien on Twitter The festival she was talking about is accepting proposals here   Joe Thomas can be found @Joefishthomas on twitter and insta and Joe Thomas Writer on Facebook You can buy his book Here   We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com   Prompt for this week is "sticky floors" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.    Thank you to Roger Waldron for your poem this week. Invite  inviting me round  to talk over   your  world beating veggie lasagna  you apologise for the kitchen  careful   don’t stick to the floor    we talk about  being married  that B&B in Scarborough   where they asked  if we wanted  dessert   which turned out  to be Pears in sticky Rice Pudding  you asked  if we’d ever be a pair  again   you asked if I would like pudding  afters  etc  I declined all 3    careful not to stick  to your floor   wondering   what makes  you think like that    Featured poets: Paige Lewis Sarah Kay

  6. 11/02/2020

    08 Kate North and Christina Thatcher

    Welcome to the eighth episode of Dickens and Quips! This week we have Kate North on the show and I shall be reading from More Than You Were by Christina Thatcher. Find Kate at Kate North, Author on Facebook Website www.katenorth.co.uk katetnorth on Twitter Christina Thatcher can be found @writetoempower. We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com Prompt for this week is "what does thinking mean?" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem. Thank you to Camille Brouard for your brilliant poem. Featured collections:

  7. 10/26/2020

    07 Sven Stears and Janine Booth

    Welcome to the seventh episode of Dickens and Quips! This week we have Sven Stears on the show and I shall be reading from Mostly Hating Tories by Janine Booth. Find Sven at Sven Stears on Facebook Sven_Stears on Insta SvenStears on Twitter Janine Booth can be found here. We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com Prompt for this week is "birds aren't real" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem. Featured collections: The BreakBeat Poets Mostly Hating Tories Prompt for this week is Birds aren't real.

  8. 10/19/2020

    06 Mithago Craze and Roath Writers

    Welcome to the sixth episode of Dickens and Quips!                                                                                          This week we have Mithago Craze on the show and I shall be reading from To The Sofa and Back Again by Roath Writers Roath Writers are @roathwriters on Twitter. We are at Twitter: @dickensandquips Instagram: @dickensandquips Email: dickensandquips@gmail.com Prompt for this week is "Ball Gown" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem. Featured poems: A Prayer Is a Beautiful Thing -though some may see in it an echo A palimpsest of other, broken beliefs.   They may see gold-plated faith or  trust misplaced in midnight power long-gone or worse, corrupt.   My prayer-book is different Mine are love-letters to hope, Gratitude to libraries of humanity A patronage.   I pray to poetry groups. I pray to book clubs, dedicated To slowing down time, To taking a seam ripper to the straight threads of sentences and the curved loops of letters and seeing how the garment was made   I pray for their patience. I pray for their keen eyes, Their strong hands flicking pages in The dead of the night.   I congregate in the silence Of the line-breaks and indents, And as the ministers preach Meaning into every comma, Depth into every unfinished   I sign my love-letter with a kiss And find their words guide me, Map my (spiritual or not) path to the X Dervla O'Brien Changeling Fairy child, where did you come from? Is there a kingdom that misses you? Who is the child in the court of the Fairies? She wears your dresses and spins around twirling with the Queen of the Elven as they dance with the moon. Ancient eyed child, who has seen and knows all, your soul windows green when the others have brown. Your hair softly sea waves while the others wear springs. Their laughter like starlight, your silence the dawn. Changeling child, who cries in the darkness, you dream of the fairies, the dancing and feasting with creatures so stunning, their brightness blinds you. Unable to speak to tell their story, you hide behind smiles and eyes older than time. Outsider child, whose sadness drowns hope don’t you know it will change? You will be the story, the changeling who lived. You will float down stairs that are chandelier lit in a boa of feathers. Embracing your faeness, you will sing out the twilight and welcome the darkness, twirling for the moon. To know that something inside me is still alive Dee Dickens Both available in To The Sofa and Back Again by Roath Writers

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Each week, poet Dee Dickens discusses a collection of poetry, which is her favourite and introduces you to a Line To Make You Go Ooooh!. She also has a guest on to discuss what they have been up to, poetry and otherwise. Join her as she wanders round a world of poetry that isn't entirely populated by old, white men.

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