In this episode we take Maya Angelou's Still I Rise as inspiration and catalyst. We chat about writing as protest, appropriation, and the status of Maya Angelou as phenomenal woman.Writers discussed include Amanda Gorman, Langston Hughes, WS Merwin, Bob Dylan, Colston Whitehead and Lucy Hannah.Contributors are poet Mark Lewis, bookseller Lorna Lee and psychologist Philippa Davies. Music : Attribution Code"Spy Glass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, we discuss Sylvia Plath's poetry and discover an unexpected happyish ending in Wales.

In this final episode of this Poetry Of Wales series, we discuss our community created poetry projects on unsung heroines of West Wales, football, witchcraft and ritual and a tribute to Llandeilo from its local creatives.

In this episode, we consider the contribution of Dylan Thomas.  We investigate the man and the myth, and discuss his considerable influence. Guest Alan Jones champions the poet's rockstar status - and we don't disagree. 

In this episode, we discuss new poetry voices in Wales, of poets Rhiannon Hooson and Kathy Miles. We discuss the possibilities of Welsh Gothic, and what else in happening in poetry in Wales which excites us.  This episode features a most helpful interview with Kathy Miles for aspiring poets. 

You're most welcome to eavesdrop here as we review our poetry podcast year - what worked and what didn't - and send dedications of love and appreciation on behalf of others and ourselves. Thanks to poets Luise Thomas and Christian Donovan for their contributions, and to all other contributors and listeners this year. 

We discuss Gwyneth Lewis in this episode, first National Poet of Wales. One of us is a massive fan-girl and the other is a little bit out of her depth... This episode is dedicated to super-humanist, super-culture-lover, super-hippy and super-gardening-guru Alan Tuck, who lived next door to the cowshed and enjoyed our podcast. 

In this episode, we chat about Edward Thomas, 'the delicate poet', his contribution, fascinating life and tragic death on a First World War battlefield. We both write quite experimental poems, inspired by his approach. 

In this episode, we discuss and analyze the poetry of Gillian Clarke, former National Poet of Wales and winner of the Queen's Award for Poetry.  We find huge affinity with the poet, and are big fan girls! 

RS Thomas is our subject in this episode, and we discuss him with writer and vet, Lewis Griffiths.  Despite his austere reputation, we find a poet of relatable contradiction and humour, who is working it out like the rest of us.