Ep. 28 - Paul McMenemy (transcript available)

May 2015. David Turner talks to Paul McMenemy about getting into poetry by accident as a way of passing exams, the immediacy of poetry and the beauty of how it lingers in the mind, publishing and selling Lunar Poetry magazine, and the failure of most poetry to market itself well. Paul reads three poems: 'Untitled' - 00:00:43 ‘Scottish Country Dancing’ - 00:11:40 ‘It’s not the economy and don’t call me stupid’ - 00:25:37 Download a transcript of this conversation here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ep28-paul-mcmenemy-transcript.pdf

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A series of discussions, interviews and live recordings with poets from the UK and abroad in which we examine the writing process. Now hosted by Peter deGraft-Johnson a.k.a The Repeat Beat Poet, the series was founded by David Turner in October 2014 in south east London.