Pocketry Presents A Poetry Podcast Pocketry

Poet Peter Bakowski brings the novelist's gaze to the art of writing poetry about fictional characters. In this wide-ranging conversation, Peter talks about his incredible forty year career as a poet including the experience of having his poetry widely translated and organising poetry tours. He talks about poetry as sculpture, finding the right way into the subject matter, engaging the reader and the importance of the 3 Ps. 

Listen to Magdalena Ball read her poem, Eastern Whip Bird, and then learn all about the poetic techniques of alliteration and caesura as well as the use of punctuation in a poem. You can find Magdalena at www.magdalenaball.com.

Content warning: death
Australian poet Andy Jackson joins us on the Pocketry Presents podcast to talk about his creative process and experience of editing literary journals. Join us to hear about expressing the social element of poetry, the challenges and rewards of being commissioned as well as visible differences, otherness and marginality.

Pocketry Presents is back in 2022 with more poets and poetry goodness for your listening pleasure!
Season Two features more of what you've come to expect including interviews with established poets about their creative process, emerging poets reading their work, analysis of featured poems and new books to inspire and illuminate.
Brought to you by Pocketry, champion of unheard voices and home to the pocket-sized print journal, The Pocketry Almanack. 

Content warning: Domestic violence and CPTSD
Pocketry Presents is back with a special episode featuring the poets and artists published in Issue 5 of the Pocketry Almanack!
Tune in to hear the published poets reading their poems as well as artist Tegan Iversen describing her artwork and the inspiration behind the piece. You'll also hear some intriguing words that were bartered for a copies of the Almanack.
Poets featured in this episode: Freya Alexander, Paul Barrett, Tiph Harris, T. J. Kloprogge and Kira West.
 

Thank you to all the poets who appeared in the very first season of Pocketry Presents. It's been a whirlwind five months of poetry, stories, words, interviews and poetic techniques. And a big thank you to all you lovely listeners for tuning in - it's been wonderful to share poetry with you!