Podcasts from the Scottish Poetry Library, the world’s leading resource for poetry from Scotland and beyond.
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast
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Podcasts from the Scottish Poetry Library, the world’s leading resource for poetry from Scotland and beyond.
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8/11/2022
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Recent Episodes
June 1, 2026
Nothing But The Poem - Selima Hill
Our regular podcast host Samuel Tongue, after meeting with the Friends of the SPL group, rolls up his sleeves for one of his favourite poets, Selima Hill, examining two poems from her 1997 collection, Violet (Bloodaxe). Please Can I Have a Man Why I Left You What they said about Selima Hill's poetry: "Every page reveals her unique ability to invert the world and shake it, until it reveals its truth" - Kathleen Jamie & Maurice Riordan (PBS Bulletin) "She is truly gifted. She invests mundane things with visionary, delirious brilliance." - Graham Swift (Sunday Times) "Hill is a unique voice in British poetry, handling central subjects with wit, metaphorical beauty, and deep clarity. Her two most characeristic features, the off-the-wall images, and no-holds-barred straight talk, work flawlessly together." " - Ruth Padel & Sean O'Brien (PBS Bulletin)
May 14, 2026
Nothing But The Film Poem - Episode 1
Lights! Camera! Action! Poetry! Nothing But The Film Poem is a new podcast from the Scottish Poetry Library which will be released into the wild 3 times per year. In this first episode Sam Tongue from SPL meets poetry filmmaker Steve Smart. They talk film poems - or poetry films - just what are they? - and discuss some interesting examples. Poetry films mentioned: Do not go gentle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZjrkfWIlM La Plage by Alastair Cook https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/filmpoem-4-la-plage/ Acknowledgements https://www.arvideriksson.com/acknowledgements Additional Resources Poetry Film Workshop web page (wide variety of many poetry film related resources)https://artsci.co.uk/poetryfilmworkshop/ Charles Olsen’s 2023 essay on ‘How to film a poem’https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/06/13/how-to-film-a-poem/ Helen Dewberry’s book ‘How to make a Poetry Film (a handbook for poets)’ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helendewbery/how-to-make-a-poetry-film/
April 30, 2026
Nothing But The Poem - Nick Makoha
Regular podcast host Samuel Tongue, after a meetup with the Friends of the SPL group, rolls up his sleeves and gets thinking about two poems by Nick Makoha from his much acclaimed and award-listed 2025 masterpiece, The New Carthaginians (Penguin). What they said about The New Carthaginians: "A dizzying experience... like Dante entering hell through a rip in the universe, Makoha enters history, accompanied not by Virgil but by a Black Icarus with a microchip for a mouth, and the shade of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat" - Philip Terry (Guardian) "A moving collection of entangled histories. Makoha’s poems break, cut, scratch and sample with heightened language to remake and renew the boundaries of myth. Do not sleep on The New Carthaginians - Raymond Antrobus "In this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go." - Jason Allen-Paisant "Profound, sheer originality... a tantalising jigsaw puzzle of a book" - Tristram Fane-Saunders (Telegraph)
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