Welcome back listeners! We're here to kick off our 2021 schedule with our first interview of the year, with our first author of the year - Rob Gee! 

On this episode, Rob and I discuss punk poetry origins, the importance of mental health advocacy and who's stories to tell. Rob also gives us some insider knowledge of his many years at fringe festivals across the world. (In particular, we touch on Canada's fringe orgs and you can find out more info here: https://fringefestivals.com/) and OF COURSE we talk about the new book, The Day My Head Exploded now available to buy direct or through our webstore

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Rob Gee!

This episode we chat with Robert Garnham about his new book Yay! - the new autobiographical side of Robert, the unrelenting love of small town life and it's characters and we delve into Devon's poetry scene.

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Robert Garnham!

This episode Bridget is joined by Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey to discuss his new release - Please Do Not Touch - an exploration of our colonial past, and the present effects on black communities. We dive into some of Birmingham's brimming poetry scene and some sound advice from Casey's dad.

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Casey Bailey!

This episode we catch up with Tina Sederholm on the release of her second BE collection - This Is Not Therapy! 

We discuss a range of emotions including joy, discomfort and forgiveness as well as awkward in-person gigs and trying to capture that perfect poetry film! 

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Tina Sederholm is a poet and theatre-maker. Described as
‘Completely spellbinding’ ***** (Edfringe Review) and ’Stunning’ ***** (Three Weeks), she has created four solo spoken word theatre shows that have toured extensively, including six runs at the Edinburgh Fringe. A sought-after headliner on the festival and spoken word circuit, she has performed everywhere from allotments to the Royal Albert Hall.

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Tina Sederholm!

On this new episode of the Burning Eye Podcast we catch up with BE poet Andrew Graves on the release of his third BE collection - Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt. 

We discuss portrayals of the working class, dark hollywood and being a goth poet... 

If you love cinema and history, check out http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/

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Andrew Graves!

This episode we catch up with Rachel Rose Reid on her new book 'I'm Hans Christian Andersen' out with us from 2nd December 2021.

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Rachel Rose Reid

This episode Bridget is joined by Maz Hedgehog in the lead up to the release of their first full collection The Body and Its Seasons.

We talk theatre, food in manchester and finding unexpected voices in our work.

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Maz Hedgehog

Spring is officially here, and so is Good Listeners! The debut pamphlet from Somerset poet Pascal Vine.

We talk about writing from different perspectives, the communal rituals at DIY punk shows, and how the rural and urban collide. 

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Pascal Vine

This episode we catch up with Katie (Tom) Walters on their debut collection My Body is a Resource I am Willing to Expend - out now! 

We talk about being a disabled artist, before and during the pandemic. How disablity has changed Tom's approach to performance poetry and how digital spaces are integral in a society slipping back into non-disabled reality.

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Katie (Tom) Walters

This episode features the briliant scottish DIY punk poet Ross McFarlane! We talk about his new pamphlet Life Goals of the Millennials: or The Commune Manifesto - a shout out to all those clinging onto their communities and stable housing.

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Ross McFarlane

We're back after a short mid-season break! 

Back in May, we released Bibi June's pamphlet Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer and caught up with them on the day of release. In this episode we discuss queerness and poetry as activism, the importance of editing and the joy of performing.

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Bibi June

We catch up with Jemima Foxtrot on the release of her second BE collection A New Game! We touch on survivorship and writing for performance and the page.

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Jemima Foxtrot

The legendary Jackie Juno joins us on the podcast to talk about her new Burning Eye collection Priestess of the Powder Puff Experiment, out now! We get into the buzz of performing at festivals, the duties of the Grand Bards and always being DIY at heart.

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Jackie Juno

Leena Norms joins us on today's episode to talk about her already-bestselling debut collection Bargain Bin Rom-Com! We touch on community, how to order poems in a book, and ice cream for breakfast.

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Leena Norms

Sally Jenkinson joins us for this episode to talk about her third pamphlet 'Pantomime Horse, Russian Doll, Egg' - we get into the power of the pamphlet, writing challenges, and the DIY way....

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Sally Jenkinson

Join us as we delve into The Pleasure Dome, the new collection by Louise Fazackerley who talks us through the meaning of eyes, performing in toilets and the characters that appear in her work.

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Louise Fazackerley

Welcome back! We're joined by Scottish film maker, writer and poet Leyla Josephine to talk about her debut collection In Public/ In Private. 
This episode we discuss the isolating life of the poet, mentoring and the UK touring network.

Find out more: www.leylajosephine.co.uk

Leyla Josephine

In episode 5 Jenn invites Bristol poets Hannah Teasdale and Vanessa Kisuule over to hers for some wine and a chat about all things poetry. 

You can also listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! 

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Episode #5 - Hannah Teasdale and Vanessa Kisuule

In Episode 7 Jenn talks to Malaika Kegode, Thommie Gillow and Rebecca Tantony about putting on poetry gigs in Bristol, pet peeves and the problem with slam poetry. Rebecca also chats a bit about her upcoming collection 'All The Journeys I Never Took'. 

Hammer and Tongue Bristol -https://twitter.com/HandTBristol
Milk Poetry - https://twitter.com/MilkPoetry

Rebecca's book launch -https://www.facebook.com/events/1562818187080247/

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Episode #7 - Thommie Gillow, Malaika Kegode & Rebecca Tantony

Jenn chats to Paula Varjack on the release of her new Burning Eye book Letters I Never Sent To You.

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Episode #2 - Paula Varjack

Jenn chats to Sara Hirsch about debut collection Still Falling, the loneliness and mental health issues that come with touring alone and the pros and cons of poetry slams.

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Episode #3 - Sara Hirsch

Self proclaimed 'Crone Poet' Crysse Morrison talks about her new book Crumbs from a Spinning World, the sleepy scene of Frome and what inspires her to write.

http://www.cryssemorrison.co.uk/
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Episode #4 - Crysse Morrison

Jenn sits around the kitchen table with Jeremy Toombs to talk about his new book Who Knows? and what lead him to poetry and to travel around the world.

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Episode #9 - Jeremy Toombs

After the summer break, the Burning Eye podcast is back with some short interviews with Carmina Masoliver (She Grrrowls founder) at the Ed Fringe, and Shagufta K Iqbal (Jam is for Girls) at Shambala Festival. 

Plus some BE news and upcoming events. 

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Episode #10 - September

Welcome back to the Burning Eye Podcast! 

Here is a short episode for you, featuring a poem from Totally Cultured, the second poetry collection from renowned UK performance poet Dan Simpson.

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Episode 11: back again

Episode 12 lands on Mother's  Day (uk) so here is a poem by co-editor Bridget Hart, plus some exciting even updates and an recorded extract from Carmina Masoliver and her debut collection Circles (https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/circles-by-carmina-masoliver).

Learn more:
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Live stream book launches!
Agnes Torok - Sunday 29th March 1pm -https://www.facebook.com/events/661530944595032/

Maria Ferguson - Weds 8th April 7.30pm -
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Thanks for tuning in.

Episode 12: Resting in Circles

This episode we catch up with Laurie Eaves, author of the heartwarming debut 'Biceps'. We talk about working with mentors, putting together a concept collection and what we as readers can do to help newly published writers. 

Buy a copy of 'Biceps' from Laurie's web store: https://laurieeaves.bigcartel.com/

Thanks for listening!

Edited and produced by Bridget Hart

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Episode 13: 'Biceps' interview with Laurie Eaves

We are joined by Maria Ferguson, author of 'Alright, Girl?' and our conversation takes us to finding ways to motivate our writing, imposter syndrome and Maria's future plans. Mentions of pandas.

Maria also reads a poem from the new collection.

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Maria Ferguson

This week's poem comes from our upcoming 2020 poet Afshan D'souza-Lodhi who's debut re:desire will be released 25th June. 

Poem text:

Are we?

we are the generation of women
who's fathers were around but
who's mothers ran houses raised children fed armies cleaned up your messes and your messes and your messes and never seemed to get into any messes herself.
we are the generation that holds
each other in silence, across
the internet and in every single cliche
we are talked about but never allowed to live in.
we are the generation of radical
honesty, the kind that doesn't let a friend
leave the house with their skirt tucked
into their knickers, but the kind
that lies with kindness and discretion.
we are the resistance, the ones
that grew up on twitter
and protested regimes across borders.
we use memes to politicise and get quoted
by acamedics theorising about our lives
we are the ones that build houses
using youtube, we fix lamps and boilers and that leak underneath the tap.
we google and facebook and ask
the neighbourhood group
if anyone has a spare pot of paint to
do up the garden and on-up the annoying neighbour.
we are the children
of those that inherited books as gifts.
we pride ourselves in packed
bookcases of books we've never read.
we use our time wisely, to write poetry, to
sing loudly in the kitchen while making the buns
our mothers used to bake for us kids
we buy flour and eggs and forget to buy
yeast but facetime with home will save us and the buns.
we are-
and we will be-
its just a matter of how.

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Afshan D'souza -Lodhi

Welcome back, our poem this week is from the Professor of Whimsy himself - Robert Garnham!
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'To the car full of girls who shouted 'Poof!' at me as they drove past'

Of course it might have been a lucky guess.
Though I held high in the Scottish drizzle
A RAINBOW UNICORN UMBRELLA 
Which even I concede was a little camp.
Or maybe my pink feather boa was 
Poking out from my Tesco's bag for life.
Or maybe they were just nasty bastards.

It wasn't like I was gawping at a fit bloke,
Or wearing my I Like Cock tshirt,
Or logging into Grindr and shouting,
Where are you, FunkyLoveMuffin, 
Cooooooeeeeee!
I was on the way to buy a steak and Kidney pie
And you can't get any straighter than that.

As the car sped away 
I felt the loving embrace of the generations who couldn't.
But did anyway.
Souls whose crime was to love 
But loved fiercely and with passion.
This thought, and my RAINBOW UNICORN UMBRELLA
Added some glitz to a drizzly Tuesday morning.

What was it that gave the game away?
Did I flounce did I strut did I sashay
Did I mince,
Does it matter?
No glitter in the drizzle no secret street sequins
I've been out and proud 
Since before you were born,
Gayer than the gayest gay that ever did gay,
Though I do occasionally wear an anorak.

Like phantoms they come, Alan Turing,
Oscar Wilde, Freddie Mercury, Frank O'Hara,
Marcel Proust, Noel Cowerd, Quentin Crisp,
Their ghosts swirling along the Edinburgh cobbles,
Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street,
And the anonymous lovers of old
Proudly flying the flag before it even existed,
Beating down the fear and marching brave,
Stonewall freedom fighters, Harvey Milk, a fist raised
Triumphant in the oneness of a gay new world
That those for whom biology had different ideas
Might walk unmolested in the conscience
Of public acceptance.

And I, oh,
I might rise before you!
You will cower and tremble,
I, mighty gay overlord, 
Will crush thy Fiat Panda betwixt my
Powerful thighs
For it is I, prince of rainbows,
Puncher of preconceptions,
The Pink Avenger,
Exacting my just and fearful revenge
In the name of blessed queerdom!

But then,
I just sigh,
And I say to myself,
Some people
Are just tossers. 
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Molly Naylor chats to us about her new collection Stop Trying to be Fantastic. We discuss editing, pieces exclusively for performance and also a little chat on pop culture and queer film nights.

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Molly Naylor [Interview]

Co-editor Bridget catches up with Afshan D'souza-Lodhi on the release her of debut poetry collection 're:desire'. We discuss garlic crushers, mangos and writing sensual poetry. 

‘This is an evocative collection of painful and beautiful multilingual poems in which silences are broken, sexuality is uncertain, and love is a bloody mess.’ - Dean Atta

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Afshan D'souza-Lodhi [Interview]

This week we celebrate the release of MANATOMY - the debut collection from award-winning playwright James McDermott.

‘Simply magnificent. You don’t have to have grown up gay to appreciate this poetry but it will have a special charge, beauty and meaning for those of us who have’ - STEPHEN FRY

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James McDermott [Interview]

This episode we talk with Meanwhile author Cynthia Rodríguez about the book, the poems, the local scene in Leicester in and DIY punk.
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Cynthia Rodríguez (Monterrey, 1986) is a Mexican-British writer and performer based in Leicester. International, intersectional and interdisciplinary, Rodríguez uses poetry to convey everyday realities that may remain untold in media, particularly on feminist issues, cultural and countercultural shock, rites of passage and self-preservation. Mouthy Poets alumna and DIY punk artist at heart, her work has been featured in several zines and independent anthologies, including Welcome to Leicester (eds Emma Lee and Ambrose Musiyiwa), the Black Flamingo Zine (eds Dean Atta and Ben Connors) and Do Something (ed. Selina Lock). On stage, Rodríguez has opened for renowned artists such as Lydia Towsey, Hannah Swings, Caroline Bird, Lauren John Joseph and Jamie Thrasivoulou.

Cynthia Rodríguez [Interview]

This week we catch up with Rick Dove on the release of his new BE collection Tales from the Other Box. Listen out for a particularly great iZombie analogy plus  urban mythology and the importance of editing.

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Rick Dove [Interview]

We are a small independent publisher in the South West predominately specialising in promoting spoken word artists. We aim to dispel the assumption that performance poetry does not transfer well to page as well as give emerging and established artist opportunities to be published where they might be rejected from other traditional poetry publishers. As well as poetry, we publish indie fiction, please have a look at our webstore for new release and popular titles.
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