The Poetry Podcast is an audio series that brings poetry into everyday listening — inviting audiences to slow down, listen deeply, and connect across cultures, languages, and lived experience.

Each episode centres on a single poem, read aloud, allowing the listener to encounter poetry as sound, rhythm, and presence. The podcast features work from poets across cultures and languages, and is widely used by listeners, students, and educators as a tool for reflection, literacy, and discussion.

With over 17,000 subscribers, The Poetry Podcast functions as a piece of public cultural infrastructure — making poetry accessible, free, and part of daily life.

Since late 2019, I’ve been recording and releasing audio performances of poetry and prose in the public domain, creating ambient soundscapes and music behind it. In 2021, I worked with the Crystal Palace Arts Festival running workshops for young people interested in podcasts. We discussed poetry, recording techniques, and community. I invited interested participants to help me make an episode. This is what we came up with.