This episode has the theme "Writing Nature/Writing Eco'. It opens with a clip from an interview with Nancy Campbell where she talks about eco poetry and continues with a recording of the launch of the Whaleback City Press launch of 15 eco sonnets by 14 distinguished poets. This is followed by a new recording by Kathleen Jamie of her poem 'What the Clyde said after COP 26' and 'Slipway' a new poem by Philip Gross. We also have two poems by Sarah Watkinson. Other poets include Inge Milfull, Lizzie Ballagher, Helen Overell, Richard Lister, Kate Young, Georgia Hilton, Derek Seller and Sara Steven. Details of poets and their publications as well as texts of unpublished poems at poetryworthhearing.biz .

This episode had the theme 'hiding and/or seeking'. It includes an interview and reading from Nancy Campbell. Other poets are Guy Jones, Zelda Cahill-Patten, Lesley Saunders, Pat Winslow, Richard Lister, Dinah Livingstone, Sarah Mnatzaganian and Fokkina McDonnell. you can find the texts of unpublished poems and more information about the poets at poetryworthhearing.biz.

The theme for this episode was 'games people play' and we open with a wonderfully playful recording from Rachel Goodman and Elvire Roberts presenting their collaborative poetry collection, 'Knee to Knee'. Other poets include Maureen Jivani, Helen Overell, Paul Stephenson, Kate Young, Richard Lister, Sara Stegen, Dorothy Yamamoto, Trish Broomfield, Sarah Mason and Lizzie Ballagher.

More information and texts of unpublished poems can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz

This episode includes and interview and reading from Dane Holt as well as poems from Michaela Brady, Stephen Paul Wren, Guy Jones, Margaret Poynor-Clark, John Vickers, Richard Lister, Stephen Claughton, Selena Wisnom, Paul Fallon, Geoff Edwards, Tricia Parry, Benedicta Norrell, Heather Moulson and Maureen Jivani. The prompt for this episode was 'making up'. Information about the poets and texts of poems can be found at poetryworthhearing.biz

This episode includes an interview from Theophilus Qwek, where he discusses his life in poetry, both in Singapore and Oxford and reads from his new Carcanet collection, 'Commonwealth'.

The prompt for submissions was 'borders' and I was grateful to Jane Duran for recording two of her Palestine poems for the episode. There are also poems from Jess Mookherjee, Helen Overell ,Lizzie Ballagher, Isabela Basombrío Hoban, Paul Walton, Jane Thomas, Gwyn Carney, Marco Giudici and John White.

You can find more information about poets and poems at poetryworthhearing.biz

The theme for this episode was garden. You can find poems from David Constantine, Jane Burn, Paul Surman, Lizzie Ballagher, Simon Maddrell, Trish Broomfield, Dinah Livingstone and Inge Milfull.

More information about poems and poets at poetryworthhearing.biz

Comments, suggestions and submissions to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com

In this episode, you can hear Tony Curtis, the distinguished Welsh poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at South Wales University, talking about his life in poetry and his new book, Leaving the Hills.

The prompt for this episode was 'moving' which could be interpreted as anything from some kind of physical movement to the power of emotions. There are poems from Maggie Hall, Richard Lister, Dinah Livingstone, Fiona Perry, Heather Moulson, Helen Overell, Kate Young, Michael Klimeš, Adam Shaw and Lizzie Ballagher.

Details about poets and their publications and texts of unpublished poems at poetryworthhearing.biz. Suggestions, submissions and comments to poetryworthhearing@gmail.com

This episode had the prompt 'rule making and/or rule breaking'.

It includes an interview with pot and playwright,Jack Nicholls, who also gives a short reading from his work. Claire Cox explains the process behind her sonnet sequence which appeared in The Long Poem Magazine, Issue 32 and reads some of the poems. Other poets include Helen Hall, Sean Burke, Anne Bailey, Philippa Ramsden, Derek Sellen, Claire Parker and Trish Broomfield