Dickens and Quips - Poetry Pod

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…

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…

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 wee…

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Sven…

Welcome to the sixth episode of Dickens and Quips!

                                                                                         This week we have Mithago Craze on the show and I shall be r…

Welcome to the fifth episode of Dickens and Quips!

                                                                                         This week we have Alice Gretton on the show and I shall be r…

Welcome to the fourth episode of Dickens and Quips!

                                                                                         This week we have Claudia Volpe on the show and I shall be …

Welcome to the third episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have Christina Thatcher on the show and I shall be reading from Audre Lorde

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Welcome to the second episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have Joe Thomas on the show and I shall be reading from How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher.

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Welcome to the first ever episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have Sam Tate on the show and I shall be reading from My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long.

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Just over a week to go before we go live with the podcast and I am ridiculously excited. This trailer tells you what you can expect from the show and how you can get involved.

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This is a placeholder while I sort out doing some actual content! This is a sea shanty I wrote for my dissertation about my fear of drowning because of the inherited trauma of being descended from en…