UK poetry with host Hannah Lowe
The Glimpse is back with a new season of engaging conversations with poets, as they share their own work and poems that have influenced them.
This season, host Hannah Lowe chats with poets from around the UK. Liz Berry, Arji Manuelpillai, Menna Elfyn, Joelle Taylor, Mimi Khalvati, Richard Scott, Jason Allen-Paisant, and Niall Campbell each choose two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet. The season's first episode next week will introduce you to Hannah and her work.
The Glimpse: A Poetry Podcast is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with new episodes available each Tuesday starting in June 2026.
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Transcript of episode
Joelle Taylor
Poetry is like water. It's got to become the shape of the vessel that holds it.
Hannah Lowe
Welcome to Season Three of the Glimpse. I’m your host, Hannah Lowe. I’m a poet, author, and educator. This season we’ll feature poets from the UK.
Arji Manuelpillai
So I basically had 24 hours to knock a few drafts together. And I did the process, you know, like running, stress. Stretching, drinking, smoking, like all of these different levels, to make something happen.
Menna Elfyn
I think poetry is a way of trying to build bridges, and that bridge—through language and through translation—is an important one.
Hannah Lowe
We’ll connect the dots between the poets, their creative process, and what inspires their poetry.
Liz Berry
I was so frightened that the world, that the Internet would turn upon me and say, “Bad mom, bad mom, bad poet.”
Niall Campbell
What I would tend to tell any writer is, especially if you've got a poem at 16 lines, try and get it into a sonnet.
Hannah Lowe
Join us for conversations with Mimi Khalvati, Richard Scott, Liz Berry, Arji Manuelpillai, Joelle Taylor, Menna Elfyn, Jason Allen-Paisant, and Niall Campbell.
Richard Scott
I believe that the lyric poem is kind of like an illumination device
Jason Allen-Paisant
It gets involved, poetry does. It gets involved in our lives. It gets entangled.
Mimi Khalvati
I think the whole poem is absolute masterpiece in rhetoric, and not in a negative sense, but in the art of persuasion,
Hannah Lowe
You can find Season Three of The Glimpse starting June 2nd wherever you get your podcasts.
The Glimpse is an audio production of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.