This episode includes an interview from Theophilus Qwek, where he discusses his life in poetry, both in Singapore and Oxford and reads from his new Carcanet collection, 'Commonwealth'.

The prompt for submissions was 'borders' and I was grateful to Jane Duran for recording two of her Palestine poems for the episode. There are also poems from Jess Mookherjee, Helen Overell ,Lizzie Ballagher, Isabela Basombrío Hoban, Paul Walton, Jane Thomas, Gwyn Carney, Marco Giudici and John White.

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The theme for this episode was garden. You can find poems from David Constantine, Jane Burn, Paul Surman, Lizzie Ballagher, Simon Maddrell, Trish Broomfield, Dinah Livingstone and Inge Milfull.

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In this episode, you can hear Tony Curtis, the distinguished Welsh poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at South Wales University, talking about his life in poetry and his new book, Leaving the Hills.

The prompt for this episode was 'moving' which could be interpreted as anything from some kind of physical movement to the power of emotions. There are poems from Maggie Hall, Richard Lister, Dinah Livingstone, Fiona Perry, Heather Moulson, Helen Overell, Kate Young, Michael Klimeš, Adam Shaw and Lizzie Ballagher.

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