Just popping in to the studio for our Popcorn Episode! Colin and Claire offer up a snack size treat focusing on the poem Popcorn by Lucy Heuschen.

Sweeter than sweet as always, Claire and Colin talk about Marmalade, with reference to poems by Dorothea Grossman and Roddy Lumsden and the Antarctic Expedition diary by William Gordon Murdoch.

Colin and Claire relive recent and not so recent road trips through the lens of car snacks. They discuss writing by Zain Rishi, Jayne Cortez Bertolt Brecht and Claire Reynolds.

It’s our birthdays and we’ll podcast if we want to!!! Colin and Claire celebrate Birthday Cake with featured poems by Meg Bateman, Bill Berkson, Eunice De Sousa and Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, as well as A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. At the end of the show, Colin shares a poem - Birthday Kale - from his new collection Aquafaba!

Colin and Claire wake up and smell the coffee discussing Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad.

Claire Reynolds and Colin Herd talk about the multi-layered and surprisingly dramatic history of the croissant, and discuss writing by Camilla Grudova, Natascha Ewert and Eva Baltazar.

A couple of nerds (Colin and Claire) discuss meatballs through texts by Selima Hill, Roberto Bolaño, Ty Raso and Chris Newens. Thinking about meatballs from world cuisine including Koofteh Tabrisi, Kofta, Polpette, Frikadeller and Palotte. We also go to Eusebi’s deli in Glasgow’s west end to check out their Polpette!

Soupy, indulgent and altogether warming as always, Claire and Colin talk all things Risotto in this latest episode, including discussion of Anne Enright's novel The Green Road, Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Anna Ansari's Silk Roads.