Podcast Episodes

Episode 49: Shara McCallum - "Arguing with the dead"

Season 6 Episode 9

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Shara McCallum about the ethics of art, the difference between subject…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 48: Kym Deyn - "My poetry goes squelch"

Season 6 Episode 8

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Kym Deyn about the fundamental creativity of tricksters, what they’ve …

6 months ago

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Episode 47: Sasha Dugdale - "Writing from your viscera"

Season 6 Episode 7

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Sasha Dugdale about ventriloquism, stealing a school poetry textbook, …

6 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 46: John McCullough - "How to move a stranger"

Season 6 Episode 6

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to John McCullough about queer joy, neurodivergence, and conveying energy…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 45: Ian McMillan - "Everywhere can be a place for art"

Season 6 Episode 5

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Ian McMillan about almost a quarter of a century of The Verb, surreali…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 44: Roma Havers - "Your body is the form"

Season 6 Episode 4

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Roma Havers about writing for commission early in a career, queerness …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 43: Helen Calcutt - "Worry kills the poem"

Season 6 Episode 3

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Helen Calcutt about working with children, translating language into m…

7 months ago

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Episode 42: Taz Rahman - "Sophisticated art is not the story, but the representation"

Season 6 Episode 2

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Taz Rahman about what being a wedding photographer teaches you about p…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 41: Michael Symmons Roberts - "[Poetry's] powerlessness is part of its great power"

Season 6 Episode 1

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Michael Symmons Roberts about Filmmaker Tarkovsky, faith in poetry, an…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 40: Martin Kratz - "I don't have to write this"

Season 5 Episode 10

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Martin Kratz the poetics of touch, his interesting relationship with t…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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