Episode 10: Roger Robinson
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats with Roger Robinson about creative citizenship, travelling the UK and writing haikus.
Roger Robinson is a writer and educator who has published numerous books including his T.S. Eliot Prize winning collection A Portable Paradise. Roger also has published digital resources to support people to become better poets and to help “make creative blocks obsolete”.
You can buy Home Is Not A Place here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/home-is-not-a-place/
You can buy A Portable Paradise here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/a-portable-paradise/
You can buy On Poetry, On Creativity bundle here: https://rogerrobinsononline.com/on-poetry-on-creativity/
Roger mentioned the Palestinian poet Taha Muhummed Ali. You can buy his book here: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/so-what-888
The particular poem of Ali’s that Roger mentioned called Revenge can be read here: https://www.lionsroar.com/about-a-poem-ruth-ozeki-on-tahamuhammad-alis-revenge/
You can buy Mosab Abu Toha’s most recent book here: https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/forest-of-noise-mosab-abu-toha?utm_campaign=buy_button&utm_medium=hcwpnetwork&utm_source=www.4thestate.co.uk&variant=41658362560590
You can buy Mohammed El-Kurd’s most recent book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1744-rifqa
Link to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians): https://www.map.org.uk/
Link to a guide published by BDS: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
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The Poems We Made Along The Way is a show where Gregory Kearns interviews a different poet each episode. These conversations explore community, friendship and poetry. How poems can be friends to us? How we need community to make us better poets? And what we can do to best build those communities?Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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