restorations

 Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.

In this edition we speak with poet Rosalind Hudis about her collection Restorations. Rosalind Hudis grew up in Suffolk but now lives in West Wales with her partner and family. A one-time accordion player in a gypsy band, Rosalind now works as a freelance writer, editor, reviewer and tutor. 

 Restorations is a journey into what it means to preserve – a monument, a moment, a life-story, a poppy. It’s about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary, there are poems about pigments and dictators, glue and glass houses, collections, crinolines, and barometers, and the vagaries of memory itself. Entwined, is a more personal story that tracks the loss of a parent to dementia. Also running through, is a theme of women eroding the straitjacket of gendered roles. Linking all is a play with colour, particularly blue, in all its stages from vital to decayed.

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards  

The interviewer is Chris Gregory  

Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories 

Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson 

 This conversation was recorded on Zoom. As with all video calls, the sound quality may not always be perfect. but we hope you’ll enjoy listening.

You can find out more about Rosalind’s poetry on her website https://rosalindhudis.wordpress.com/

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Please join us next week for a conversation with Eric Ngalle Charles, about his collection Homelands, which will be released on Thursday 24th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.  

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Our fourteenth preview podcast features Rosalind Hudis reading her poem ‘Insulation’ from her collection Restorations. The poem is read by Rosalind and was recorded via Zoom so we apologise if the sound quality isn't always perfect. 

Listen to our in-depth interview with Rosalind in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 17th November. 

The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets.  Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work.  We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration.  Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. 

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio.  We’ll speak to Polly Atkin,  Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles,  Ben Wilkinson and more.

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The boys are back with eight songs to make you happy. Smiles guaranteed or your joy back.

Songs To Make You Happy: A Spotify Playlist

Tracklist:

1. Wild World - des hume

2. There's No One Crying over Me Either - American Wrestlers

3. basking in the glow - Oso Oso

4. Miracles - Benny Sings

5. A - Restorations

6. Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake - Grandaddy

7. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - James Taylor

8. Katchi - Nick Waterhouse & Leon Bridges

Cover art by Frank Sinatra!

Our first regular episode of 2019. We focus on the year 2011, a year we are quite fond of. We also discuss the first Restorations album and it's relationship to the field of heartland punk, and we have our first split release on the show from Spraynard and Sundials.

Restorations - Restorations https://open.spotify.com/album/1OICgbFczgfZsyE3fPpwhi

Spraynard / Sundials - split (Spraynard) https://open.spotify.com/album/6bOuGlsTFmwcXoJ5NXfVIp (Sundials) https://open.spotify.com/album/5dRe1PNbJs3nVDMpBBp4Dv

Songs featured on this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Restorations - West River

Restorations - Nonlocality

Restorations - When You're Older

Spraynard - No Taxis in Malvern

Sundials - Snowballs at Cops

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