Ep. 34 - Cheryl Mclennan (transcript available)

June 2015. A transcript of this conversation is available here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-cheryl-mclennan-lpp-transcript-ep-34.pdf Cheryl Mclennan talks to David Turner about poetry and its succinctness helping her to find her voice, joining a writing group and sharing ideas as a way of continuing to write, how she started performing after winning a prize at an open mic event, and her carefully crafted rhythms and language. Cheryl reads five poems: ‘Silverback Gorilla’ - 00:00:23 ‘The Colorado River Toad’ - 00:01:06 ‘Sherbet Lemon’ - 00:05:46 ‘Fruit Teas’ - 00:07:12 ‘Catherine’ - 00:15:12 www.twitter.com/Silent_Tongue

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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.