MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN
MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN
Podcast Description
A poetry experiment from Nols Nathankski for weirdos that love words.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores various themes related to poetry and performance art, including challenges of societal norms, personal expression, and the London spoken word scene, with episodes featuring prompts like writing horoscopes, discussing familial achievements, and creating poems in unconventional settings such as saunas.
a poetry experiment by nols nathanski.
poetry to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
an experimental queer poetry podcast where poems are made and performed automatically, pushing the boundaries of the form.
each episode: a conversation with a poet, three timed automatic writing prompts done live – guest and nols both and then the open mic. no editing. no polish. just the poems that arrive.
we close every show the same way: a shout out, the name of a collection a poet haven’t written yet, and words of wisdom
about fifty minutes is always planned – but neurodivergence does what is does.
send us your poems innit
This week Nols is joined by Mikey Kirkpatrick flautist, singer, composer, improviser and performer and writer, who makes work for street, stage, film and radio. Mikey records and tours internationally as Bird Radio, his singular take on new British folk (voice, flutes, loops, bones, homemade instruments and the famous red suitcase kick drum). He’s an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths and founding director of Alchemy, a collective of artists, teachers and mentors working with young people at risk of exclusion, and he teaches Music, Healing and Deep Listening for Morbid Anatomy in New York.
Nols and Mikey met at the Octave Marathon at the Old Church in Stoke Newington. The event was a way to raise money to save one of the most unique arts space and consecrated church in london.
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Nols and Mikey go looking for the music in everything including poetry. Mikey opens up his many daily creative practices and the threads that hold them together, and traces the extraordinary journeys behind the music and the writing. They talk about what it means to be a pillar of a creative community, and the genuinely impressive work Mikey does with young people in London building shelter for them to make, listen, and find their own voices.
Find Mikey & Bird Radio
• Website: https://mikeykirkpatrick.wordpress.com
• The Residency (Substack): https://mikeykirkpatrick.substack.com
• Music (Bird Radio on Bandcamp): https://birdradio.bandcamp.com
• Alchemy at Goldsmiths: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/alchemy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeykirkpatrick
MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN
poetry to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed
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