Podcasts

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 […]

The first in a series in which the poet Pelé Cox and her pupil, the former journalist Richard Uridge, discuss poetry, its practice and potential as a tool for a creative life. In this eclectic opening episode they explore the differences between writing news reports and writing poetry with the help of another journalist –