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Before The Chorus

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LIVE: Before the Chorus & Open Folk Present: In These Lines feat. Gaby Moreno, Lily Kershaw & James Spaite 33:58

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On June 25th 2025, in collaboration with Open Folk, we presented our first ever live interview event in Los Angeles. As Open Folk put it: "In These Lines is a live event where three artists each bring one song — not just to perform, but to explore. They sit down with Sofia Loporcaro, host of Before The Chorus, to talk about where the song came from, what it meant to write it, and what it still holds. Then they play it. Just the song, and the truth behind it." Find Open Folk on Instagram: @openfolkla Find Gaby on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0K9pSmFx0kWESA9jqx8aCW?si=Wz4RUP88Qlm_RKs7QTLvWQ On Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gaby-moreno/472697737 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaby_moreno/ Find Lily on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0p0ksmwMDQlAM24TWKu4Ua?si=Bmdg-uIUTHu-zRUc_dqL3g On Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lily-kershaw/526884610 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilykershaw/ Find James on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3u50TPoLvMBXNT1KrLa3iT?si=OoLoq7ZTRZyUiytQcz0FsQ On Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/james-spaite/905076868 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesspaite/ Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beforethechorus.bio.to/listen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.beforethechorus.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@beforethechoruspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@soundslikesofia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ About the podcast: Welcome to Before the Chorus , where we go beyond the sounds of our favourite songs to hear the stories of the artists who wrote them. Before a song is released, a record is produced, or a chorus is written, the musicians that write them think. A lot. They live. A lot. And they feel. A LOT. Hosted by award-winning interviewer Sofia Loporcaro, Before the Chorus explores the genuine human experiences behind the music. Sofia’s deep knowledge of music and personal journey with mental health help her connect with artists on a meaningful level. This is a space where fans connect with artists, and listeners from all walks of life feel seen through the stories that shape the music we love. About the host: Sofia Loporcaro is an award-winning interviewer and radio host who’s spent over 8 years helping musicians share their stories. She’s hosted shows for Amazing Radio, and Transmission Roundhouse. Now on Before the Chorus, she’s had the chance to host guests like Glass Animals, Feist, Madison Cunningham, Mick Jenkins, & Ru Paul's Drag Race winner Shea Couleé. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Planet Poetry

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Love poetry? Join Robin and Peter and their guests as they read poems, chat about all things poetry and generally explore the bedazzling world of Planet Poetry. Since we started this podcast in 2020 we've interviewed dozens of poets and poetry editors, discussed all the thorny issues about the poetry world and delved into our favourite poetry past and present. We don't have sponsors and we don't interrupt the flow with ads, so if you like what we do, please buy us a coffee or two at buymeacoffee.com/planetpoetry to help keep the poddy going! Thanks!

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Planet Poetry

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The Way | The Blueprint - with Jo Colley and Charles G Lauder, Jr 57:38

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Send us a text It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of the Rat, a profound collection informed by long engagement with Daoism. Also we speak to Jo Colley, who with Julie Hogg, runs Blueprint Poetry Press. Jo tells us what moved her about Charles's work, and shares insights into the selection and editing process and the sheer pleasure that publishing fine poets brings - as well as the balance between her own poetry practice and publishing. Robin discovers spare and lovely work by Ritchie McCaffery , whose pamphlet Skail just published by New Walk Editions . And Peter is shocked to find himself enjoying Frank O'Hara's poem Why I Am Not a Painter . Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Points | Divergences - with Erica McAlpine 1:01:24

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Send us a text What was that? A bat or swallow? Something flitted past, but we can't agree on what we've just seen ... Erica McAlpine reads from Small Pointed Things (just published by Carcanet) that makes that uncertain territory her own, with meticulously crafted poems that harbour hard questions. And talking of things that flit past your window, Peter gets an early look at White Teeth, Red Blood, selected Vampire Verses published shortly by Pushkin Press. We'll listen to John Keats's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', and hear why the knight is alone and palely loitering... Meanwhile Robin discovers Hope Mirrlees , and a long Modernist poem ' Paris ' - which predated Old Possum's 'The Waste Land' by two years. Plus we read an affectionate poem by Tim Relf , for Father's Day. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Still Life | Still Shining - with Richard Scott 56:37

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Send us a text Still life? Not as we know it. Trembling with tension and beauty, and roses that cup darkness and secret trauma... Hear Richard Scott share from his extraordinary new collection That Broke into Shining Crystals , just published by Faber. This is brave and shining poetry, timeless and utterly contemporary. Plus Robin and Peter dip into a verdant world, read the Imagist poem, Green , by D.H. Lawrence and, via Chroma by Derek Jarman, find ourselves on the shingle at Dungess by the nuclear power station. Robin talks breezily about Vanitas, the fleeting nature of life, and how she arranged the still life on the cover of her new book, The Mayday Diaries , skull and all... Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Chaos | Coded - with Isabelle Baafi 51:37

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Send us a text Chaos? We love it! Time to meet Isabelle Baafi and hear about her-hotly anticipated first full collection Chaotic Good just published by Faber. Among other things, it grapples with what it means to live a good and authentic life in a world full of challenges and unwanted expectations. Plus Robin and Peter discuss the idea of délire - how language can at times deliriously overflow with meaning and burst the banks of logic. We'll glance again at Lewis Carroll, and reopen renowned UK poetry magazines Magma and The Rialto , and return with a gleaming pair of poems by Milena Williamson and Linda Ford. Chaos? Let's embrace it. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Old Men | Cavalrymen - with Peter Daniels 1:02:48

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Send us a text Why should not old men be mad? Hear Peter Daniels , a pioneer of gay men's writing in the UK, brood on the emptiness of boxes, speculate on what those Cavalrymen are up to behind the locked doors, cope with Quixotic characters and, finally, bathe in the pure light of silent contemplation. All this from Old Men published by Salt in 2024. Plus, we hear a little about Leland Bardwell , a perhaps neglected Irish poet and writer, and Timothy Gallagher, a writer of dramatic monologues. Peter and Robin also report back, hotfoot from the National Poetry Competition 2024 awards celebration. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Crystal | Clarity - with Ellen Cranitch 54:24

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Send us a text A gleam of love in hard times. Our guest Ellen Cranitch shares poems from her Bloodaxe collection Crystal , a subtle, multifaceted work arising from the discovery that her partner was addicted to crystal meth. Expect beauty, flashes of resilience and the deft capture of moments that sustain a relationship through this extreme challenge. Robin and Peter have been rubbernecking at the recent Planetary Parade (we owe it to you dear listener because of our name) and use it as an excuse to open a celestial trove with dramatic lines from John Donne, from Odysseus Elytis transported from darkness on a highway of stars and from a heavenly (if passive-aggressive) W.B. Yeats. Then we sound a clarion note of Spring optimism from Thomas Tranströmer. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Girls | Snakes - with Ruth Padel 1:01:17

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Send us a text Psssssssssst! We've invited Ruth Padel to share work from her recent Chatto Poetry collection Girl . She talks about the power of girls, the mythologies woven around them and the responsibilities they must accept. She'll take us from Mary at the Annunciation (wearing a Primark T-shirt) to glimpsing a Serpent Queen from the 88 bus. Robin shares her long-held enthusiasm for 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - also by Ruth Padel. And we celebrate Siegfried Baber's spanking new pamphlet The Twice Turned Earth from Poetry Salzburg, discovering a poignant poem about Star Wars collectibles. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Oppression | Optimism - with Tishani Doshi 1:02:54

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Send us a text What's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi , sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door . You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the continuing oppression of women, blended with a playful optimism and dazzling ability to weave history, contemporary politics, and vivid imagery. Plus Peter bites the AI bullet. Can Chat GPT be useful for poets? Or is AI the poet's nemesis? Robin emerges with a little colour in her cheeks, having read Bad Kid Catullus the 'filthsmith' Roman poet as re-imagined by innovative small press, Sidekick Books . Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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From the Archive: Caleb Parkin 35:37

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Send us a text A revisit of Robin's interview with Caleb Parkin back in May 2022. Read a description and listen to the full episode here . Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!

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Ponder | Poetry - with Dai George 58:07

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Send us a text Ah-hem. Stop thinking like that. Think like a poet! Dwell in negative capability and write in a way that reflects the sheer messiness of human cognition! That's better isn't it? We meet Dai George and talk about his book How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum 2024) - where Dai creates a new and generous canon of 24 poets from Homer, Sappho, to Frank O'Hara to Audre Lourde - and looks at their lives and preoccupations. Now the festive period is upon us, Robin and Peter are in a whimsical mood. So you can expect things like steam trains, OuLiPo and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's spirited good riddance to the old year. Merry Christmas and Happy new year to all our listeners. See you in 2025... Thanks for listening! Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Seasons | Filsket Seas - with Martin Malone 56:26

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Send us a text Strap on your best boots, and follow Martin Malone as he shoulders through the seasons on the rugged granite of Aberdeenshire's north sea coast, pondering nature, ecology, human resilience and frailty in his collection Gardenstown , from Broken Sleep Books , a beautiful collaboration with artist Bryan Angus . And we'll loiter in an English outfield hoping to catch poems from his Selected Poems 2005-2020, Larksong Static from Hedgehog Press about the First World War and a lonely bar in Manhattan. Meanwhile Robin and Peter continue to answer the questions poetry lovers demand to have answered: do poetry pamphlets always have to be invertebrates? And, isn't it time to be a bit less sniffy about Dylan Thomas ? We'll also read a delightful poem Please Can I Have a Man from Selima Hill. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Cuteness | Weirdness - with Isabel Galleymore 1:00:29

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Send us a text Aw! You’re squishably cute! Yes you, dear listener. In this episode we meet Isabel Galleymore and hear from her highly original collection Baby Schema , published by Carcanet. Tempted into a big-eyed world of Disneyfied cuteness you’ll find things getting increasingly weird as Isabel examines its distorting relationship with nature, business, human relationships… and more. Plus Robin reports back to us from The Foyle Young Poets of the Year awards and reads the poem Loud by Indy Moon. Peter makes some excuse to read the timeless To Autumn , by John Keats. Then, accompanied by a wailful choir of small gnats, your podcast pals are borne aloft… Till next time… Adieu! Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Afropessimism | Affirmation - with Danez Smith 1:06:36

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Send us a text Kerpow! The poetry fireworks are back. We spark our fifth season into life with Danez Smith – who shares poems from their astonishing collection Bluff (published by Vintage Penguin 2024), destined to be one of the books of the decade. Danez discusses everything from Afropessimism to the power of water as a metaphor. Plus we hear poems that are conscious and politically-electrified, as well as tender and vulnerable poetry about love and the transformational power of poetry itself. Expect the usual back-to-school bantz from Robin and Peter, plus we dip into the poetry of exile with a fabulous poem from Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi from his collection A Friend’s Kitchen , one of the World Poet Series editions published by the Poetry Translation Centre, we hear an astonishing poem by Tony Hoagland from his final collection Turn Up The Ocean . And we’ll remember the passing of New Zealand born Fleur Adcock who died this month. Thanks for being here with us in our new season. It’s delightful to be back. Now... Where are those sparklers? Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Vigils | Confabulations - with Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny 47:13

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Send us a text Rrrrrrrip! Yikes! That’s the sound of the Planet Poetry rulebook being wantonly torn in half for our Season 4 finale. For one episode only Robin and Peter abandon their solemn vow and share some of their own poetry from forthcoming Pindrop and Mariscat publications. Then, under the chalky Sussex cliffs, we bask in recollections of another glorious season peppered with wonderful conversations with superb and entertaining guests. We want to thank you dear listener for lending us your ears. Have a glorious summer! We’ll be back with a spanking new season in October. Oi! That blinking gull’s got its beak in my chips! Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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Lost trades | Lost songs - with Jane Commane 1:05:40

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Send us a text Grip the square steering wheel of your Austin Allegro and let Jane Commane navigate you through the haunted places of the post-industrial Midlands. She treats us to poems from Assembly Lines published by Bloodaxe including UnWeather , quite possibly the best Brexit response we've heard. We upload this episode on the day of the UK's General Election... So as well as sprinting to the polling stations, we take a moment to delve into the idea of political poetry. Peter reads I Woke Up by Jameson Fitzpatrick a fine example of how the personal is political, and Robin revisits Adrien Mitchell's poem To Whom It May Concern (Tell Me Lies About Vietnam) . But thanks to Danusha Laméris's poem Small Kindnesses from her collection Bonfire Opera our faith in humanity is rapidly restored. Photo of Jane Commane by Lee Townsend Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of love! If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!…

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