Headstand - Eclectic Music & Spoken Word

This podcast comes from Borth, home of poet Rychard Carrington. Rychard explains why he decided to leave Cambridge, his home for 30 years...

Poet, photographer, musician and host of RARA open mic night Dave Daggers introduces some of his poems set to music and sets a prompt to ...

Bridget Leggy Tanner talks about writing a poem a day for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with the help of my book: Poetry Non-...

Here's another show from the archive featuring a terrific Cambridge poet, John Guy, and a poet and musician from further afield. David F...

Clive Oseman tells us how he went from writing haiku to performing poems that cover a full array of styles and emotions. He shares his wo...

New podcast coming up featuring well-travelled Swindon-based poet Clive Oseman . Here's one of his poems as a taster. NUMBERS ...

My new book Poetry Non-stop is now available on Amazon. It's a guide for poets of all levels to writing a poem a day for 30 days comi...

Renn Hubbuck-Melly talks about how she grew to love poetry and her hugely successful performance poetry open mic night Juke in Cardiff. ...

Mark Curtis reads some poems and discusses his life-long passion for writing. There are responses to Des Mannay's poetry prompt ...

On this episode Newport poet Des Mannay looks back on an amazing year in which he has been placed in three competitions and had poems in ...

 The next guest on the podcast will be Newport poet Des Mannay. Des only started taking his poetry seriously a year ago but he's not t...

John Eliot talks about poetry's power to tell stories and connect with people if they let it in. He shares some of his favourite...

Christina Thatcher talks about how writing helped her overcome a difficult upbringing and led to her moving from the US to South Wales. In...

Christina Thatcher is a poet, writer and educator from Philadelphia. She moved to Cardiff six years ago and is proud to call South Wales ...

Poet Reuben Woolley talks about his writing and why his ambition is to close down his popular online magazine I am not a silent poet ...

This show from 2008 is a real mixed bag with live music from singer-song writer Clare Connolly and an interview with Yako from legendary Jap...

Fran Smith  joins me to talk about how she discovered poetry. She reads some of her poems and challenges us to write poems about trees. Ther...

Winner of the 2014 Costa Poetry Award Jonathan Edwards joins me in conversation and reads from his collection My Family and Other Superh...

On this edition I am joined by Mab Jones who shares some of her poems and talks about her recent visit to Japan to learn the Japanese ar...

Fran Smith has written the following poem in response to Julie Prichard's prompt — a grain of sand. Fran is a regular at poetry even...