SPL Podcast

I’m featured in the Scottish Poetry Library podcast this week, chatting with Ryan Van Winkle about my mysterious middle name, what I’m writing at the moment, form and structure, Magma, revenge and ego, criticism, and various other matters. I also read two new poems. That’s in between saying ‘you know’ and ‘um...’ and ‘kind of’ a few hundred times too often.

If you'd like a good poetry collection recommendation, you need look no farther than Ryan's Tomorrow We Will Live Here, published last month by Salt. On sale at the Book Depository for only £6.98 at the moment.

Anon Podcast

If you haven’t heard enough from Andrew Philip and myself recently (I say that very tongue-in-cheek, almost apologetically!), you might consider heading over to the website of Anon magazine. Andy and I are interviewed in the second Anon podcast and, as you can read at the site:

“They discuss their relationship to blogging, how they first got into publishing their poetry, their musings on the current state of poetry in Scotland and you'll get the opportunity to hear them both reading from their new collections, which are available from Salt Publishing.”

You can also download the first podcast with sonneteer poet, novelist and former editor of Anon, Mike Stocks, which is really good stuff.