In this episode, Trinidadian/British poet and writer Vahni Capildeo. Vahni Capildeo Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds.  Her seven publications include Measures of Expatriation which won the 2016 Forward Poetry Prizes Best Collection award; Simple Complex Shapes, a sequence completed during the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship, University of Cambridge; and Utter inspired by her former job as a lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary. She enjoys cross-genre...

In this episode, a captivating  live performance, followed by an interview with Japanese poet Hiromi Ito recorded during her visit to Australia as part of the Poetry on the Move Festival. Since publication of her first collection of poetry in 1978, Hiromi Ito has been one of Japan’s  most celebrated poets. She has published poems and essays on motherhood and child-rearing, which have become a new literary genre for Japanese women writers. Her poetry and prose on women’s lives have been...

In this episode, we showcase a special performance by the Mothertongue multi-lingual poetry collective performing their original work ‘Homespun’. ‘Homespun’ is written and performed in five languages (six, including English) by four poets who came together through Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry events and workshops in Canberra. Originally created for the Noted experimental writers festival, ‘Homespun’ explores ideas and feelings about displacement, longing, love and home. The poets...

In this episode two poets from two very different places. We talk to Scottish Poet, Pamela Beasant about her life and poetry in the Orkney Islands,  and we hear from Singaporean poet, Tania De Rozario, performing at last year’s Poetry on the Move festival at the University of Canberra. Tania De Rozario is an artist, writer and curator from Singapore interested in issues of gender and sexuality. Tania is the author of Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press | 2013) and  her literary memoir, And The...

We’re dedicating this episode, our first for 2017, to an extended interview with Tusiata Avia. Tusiata Avia is a Samoan-New Zealand poet, performer and writer. She has published three books of poetry including Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, and her latest Fale Aitu/Spirit House. Tusiata has held a number of writers’ residencies and awards, including a Fulbright Pacific Artist Fellowship at the University of Hawai’i and the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with...

In this, our last episode of Poetry on the Move for 2016, we offer readings taken in and around the various events at the Poetry on the Move Festival recently hosted by the University of Canberra. We’ll hear another reading from poet-in-residence, Simon Armitage towards the end of the program, but we’ll also hear readings from fellow poet-in-residence Tusiata Avia and other guest poets, Dominque Hecq; Merlinda Bobis; and Samuel Wagan Watson.   This episode hosted by: Niloofar Fanaiyan

In this episode we interview Singaporean poet Alvin Pang.  We hear poetry from Simon Armitage. And we conclude our discussion with Melinda Smith and Caren Florance on collaboration. This episode hosted by: Shane Strange

In this episode we talk to Utah poet – Katharine Coles, we hear poetry from Niloofar Fanaiyan, and we talk to poet Melinda Smith and letter press artist Caren Florance about poetry and collaboration. This episode hosted by: Shane Strange

In this episode we talk to Dan Disney about his latest books either, Orpheus and Report from the Border. We hear poetry from Rupert Lloydell And we talk to Paul Munden about the forthcoming Poetry on the Move festival, happening at the University of Canberra in September. This episode hosted by Niloofar Fanaiyan

In this episode, Paul Hetherington talks to Australian prose poet, Cassandra Atherton, about her latest book Exhumed . We hear  poetry from  Nicole Cooley. And Jen Crawford talks with US poet Devin Johnston.   This episode hosted by: Shane Strange

In this episode we talk to the editors of Axon:Creative  Explorations about their latest issue ‘The Poetics of Collaboration’. We hear poetry from Iggy McGovern, and Owen Bullock talks to Jen Crawford about her latest book,  Koel.