A poetry podcast for people who don‘t read poetry. In each episode, host Annie Muir talks to one poet about how they got into poetry, and one poetry-sceptic about why they didn‘t. They then read a poem together and try to make sense of it. Read along each week at: www.time41poem.wordpress.com
Episodes
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Welcome to Time for one Poem! In the first part of this episode I talk to Arji Manuelpillai: a poet, rapper, and educator whose debut poetry pamphlet Mutton Rolls came out in 2020.
In the second part I talk to poetry-sceptic Andy, a team leader for the unemployment charity Apex Scotland, about Arji's poem, 'credit card'.
Although Andy describes poetry as "not [his] thing" and wishes someone would just "tell [him] what it means", we manage to come to an understanding of this poem together - discussing identity theft and the perfect leek and potato soup.
Read the poem in full and leave a comment with your own interpretation: https://time41poem.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/just-tell-me-what-it-means/
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CREDITS
Producer/host: Annie Muir ~ @time41poem
Editor: Jack Rientoul ~ @jackrientoul
Music: JANSKY ~ @radiojansky
Artwork: Max Machen ~ @maxymachen
This podcast was made using funding from the National Lottery, through Creative Scotland.
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More about Arji Manuelpillai: https://www.arji.org/
More about Apex Scotland: https://www.apexscotland.org.uk/
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