On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns is joined by Toria Garbutt at the Contains Strong Language festival for the podcast’s first live episode. They talk about having friends that ground you, using pop culture in poetry, and Toria comes up with a theme tune for the lightening round.
Toria Garbutt is a poet and educator. Since bursting onto the scene in 2014,Toria has been a regular tour support for Dr John Cooper Clarke, most recently on his ‘Luckiest Guy alive tour' on which Toria performed her first European date. In 2016 Toria released her Debut album 'Hot plastic Moon’ via spoken word label Nymphs and Thugs and in 2018 her first poetry collection ‘The Universe and Me' published by Wrecking ball press.
Books and other things
Another Time In Space: https://wreckingballpress.com/product/another-time-in-space/
Hot Plastic Moon: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/liam-bates-monomaniac
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Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:
Hitchhiking with Drunken Nuns Ep 2 – The one where I force Garbutt to learn to sew: https://videopress.com/v/qpXHT1wb
The Verb with Toria Garbutt 2024: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021kg1
Toria’s website: https://www.toriagarbutt.net/
The Usual
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