Carolyn Jess-Cooke: 'We Have to Leave the Earth"
11/03/22 • 63 min
Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with poet and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke about her third collection We Have to Leave the Earth which considers themes of the environment and motherhood.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is currently reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has published 15 books in 23 languages and won numerous awards, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Tyrone Guthrie Prize, a K Blundell Award, and she has won a Northern Writer’s Award three times.
Carolyn has a prestigious parallel career as the novelist C.J. Cooke. Her first novel The Guardian Angel’s Journal was an international bestseller. Her book The Lighthouse Witches was published in October 2021, was nominated for numerous prizes, was an international best seller, and is soon to be a major TV series. Her latest novel The Ghost Woods was published in 2022.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Carolyn’s home near Glasgow.
You can find out more about Carolyn’s poetry and fiction on her website https://carolynjesscooke.com/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
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This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
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Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with Ben Wilkinson, about his collection Same Difference, which will be released on Thursday 10th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.
Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.
In this edition we speak with poet and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke about her third collection We Have to Leave the Earth which considers themes of the environment and motherhood.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is currently reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has published 15 books in 23 languages and won numerous awards, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Tyrone Guthrie Prize, a K Blundell Award, and she has won a Northern Writer’s Award three times.
Carolyn has a prestigious parallel career as the novelist C.J. Cooke. Her first novel The Guardian Angel’s Journal was an international bestseller. Her book The Lighthouse Witches was published in October 2021, was nominated for numerous prizes, was an international best seller, and is soon to be a major TV series. Her latest novel The Ghost Woods was published in 2022.
The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Carolyn’s home near Glasgow.
You can find out more about Carolyn’s poetry and fiction on her website https://carolynjesscooke.com/
Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at [email protected]
This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at [email protected]
Please join us next week for a conversation with Ben Wilkinson, about his collection Same Difference, which will be released on Thursday 10th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.
Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.
Previous Episode
Preview Twelve : 'Now' by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Our twelfth preview podcast features Carolyn Jess-Cooke reading her poem 'Now' from the collection 'We Have to Leave the Earth'. The poem was read by Carolyn and recorded on location at her home in Scotland.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Carolyn in which we discuss the climate crisis , the late 19th century feminist activist Josephine Butler, family and Carolyn's juggling of being a poet with her career as a successful novelist, academic and mother in our next episode which will be release on Thursday 3rd November
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.
Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.
Next Episode
Preview Thirteen: ‘Nightingale’ by Ben Wilkinson
Our thirteenth preview podcast features Ben Wilkinson reading his poem ‘Nightingale’ from his second collection Same Difference. The poem is read by Ben Wilkinson and was recorded at his home in Sheffield.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Ben in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 10th November.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them.
Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.
The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.
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