Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 2 – the poetry of shock

With Pele Cox in sunny Rome and her co-host Rich Uridge in soggy Shropshire the pair explore how the weather, place and experience can all contribute to poetry. They discuss the purpose of poetry and the differences (and similarities) between it and journalism. And with the help of Ted Hughes and his Birthday Letters they talk about how poetry helped Rich write about his mother’s brutal death – a subject where reportage alone seemed inadequate as it so often does in our troubled world.

Plus poetry as a portal to another world or a time machine to another place. And the need for absolute honesty.