On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns is joined by Dave Ward. They talk about the importance of archives, using games in poetry workshop facilitation, and selling poetry magazines in pubs.
Dave Ward is a poet, folklorist and workshop facilitator. His poetry published under the name David Ward includes books like Leechcraft. He publishes folklore under the name David Greygoose. Dave co-founded and directs The Windows Project which runs game-based poetry workshops. He also co-founded and edits Smoke poetry magazine.
Books and other things
Brunt Goggart (as David Greygoose): https://pushkinpress.com/book/brunt-boggart/
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We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.
Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:
The Windows Project: https://www.windowsproject.co.uk/
Smoke magazine: https://www.windowsproject.co.uk/smoke-magazine
Liverpool Peoples History: https://liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/02/word-games-dial-a-poem-windows-project/
Paper published by University of Liverpool on arts sector funding circa late 2000s: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/impacts08/publications/liverpools-arts-sector.pdf
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