The UK Poetry Podcast is a weekly podcast that features interviews with, and poetry from, everyone who's anyone in UK poetry including John Hegley, Tim Turnbull, Annie Freud, AF Harrold, Roddy Lumsden, Heather Taylor, Tom Chivers, Richard Tyrone Jones and Rhian Edwards to name only a tiny handful of the poets that appear on the 85 Episodes so far. The podcast was the brainchild of Dominic O'Rourke, and he works tirelessly to record and edit the shows to keep up with the weekly format. He is such a nice man he even had some official UK Poetry Podcast cotton shopping bags made so poets could do their weekly shop in an environmentally friendly way.

The new episode features an interview with me, in which Dominic and I discuss the writing process, constraint, the true origin and purpose of the infamous Poetry Idol contests, JG Ballard, the history of UK performance poetry, and Daler Rowney A6 notepads among other things. On Episode 83 I read three poems - 'The Heat Ray', 'T-shirt tanlines and trampolines', and 'Unpredictive'. As these are mentioned in the interview, it's probably best to listen to Episode 85 first.

All of the previous podcasts are archived, and it is easy to listen to any of the episodes in iTunes or windows based player. So, go and check it out...

www.ukpoetrypodcast.com