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

In this edition we speak with Kim Moore, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022.   Her winning collection All The Men I Never Married is pointedly feminist, challenging and keenly aware of the contradictions and complexities of desire. The 48 numbered poems take us through a gallery of exes and significant others where we encounter rage, pain, guilt, and love and the ‘easy misogyny’ of everyday life. 

 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 location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.   

 You can find out more about Kim Moore by visiting her website https://www.kimmoorepoet.co.uk/ 

 Other books by Kim Moore

If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith|Doorstop) – Winner of the Poetry Business Pamphlet Prize https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/if-we-could-speak-like-wolves/

The Art of Falling (Seren) – winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/art-falling 

What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith|Doorstop) https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/what-the-trumpet-taught-me/

 
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This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below 

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We would like to express our thanks to Wordsworth Grasmere and all the staff there for their hospitality during our visit.    If you’d like to find out more about the work of Wordsworth Grasmere, get details of how you can visit the museum or attend one of their events please use the links below.

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This is the last interview in series one of The Seren Poetry Podcast. We hope you’ve enjoyed listening!   Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to revisit the series so far. We’ll be back in 2023…

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

Some of the poems featured in this episode contain swearing.  If you are likely to be offended by this please avoid this podcast

 In this edition we speak with poet Ben Wilkinson about his second collection Same Difference. Born in the Midlands, Ben now lives in Sheffield. His poems, criticism and journalism regularly appear in national publications including The Guardian, The Poetry Review, The New Statesman, The Spectator, and the TLS. In 2014 he won both a Northern Writers’ Award and the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Bolton. His debut collection, Way More Than Luck, was highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. 

 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 location at Ben’s home in Sheffield.

 You can find out more about Ben’s poetry on his website https://www.benwilkinson.org/ 

 Poetry collections Ben has enjoyed reading:

• High Desert – André Naffis-Sahely (Bloodaxe Books, 2022) https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/high-desert-1302 
• Peach Pig – Cecilia Knapp (Little Brown, 2022) https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/cecilia-knapp/peach-pig/9781472156815/ 
• The Arctic – Don Paterson (Faber, 2022) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338184-the-arctic/ 
•  Ben Wilkinson’s reader on Don Paterson: Don Paterson: Writers and their Work (Liverpool University Press, 2021) https://uk.bookshop.org/books/don-paterson/9781800855373 

 Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media 
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com 

 This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at office@alternativestories.com 

Please join us next week for a conversation with Rosalind Hudis, about her collection Restorations, which will be released on Thursday 17th 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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