The Re-Draft Podcast

The Re-Draft Podcast comes at you LIVE from The King's Arms! What a beautiful venue we find ourselves in for our inaugural live episode with comedian Adam Evans! We talk all things Verbose, Edinburgh Fringe, how to get into comedy, making strangers laugh and how Adam wrote a whole book back in primary school.

LISA O'HARE is about to take her show, DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST RHYME? to the Edinburgh Festival - a dream they've had for decades. We were delighted to sit down with her and discuss her community work, hosting Verbose, and how she found poetry later in life before the show! It's an excellent discussion.Follow Lisa @thelisaohare

Louis Glazzard self published his poetry book, Human Men, and is now in active development on a novel. He has experience with the Arts Council, has run poetry workshops for folks in Australia and worked as the Poet in Residence via Zoom, and sat down with us to talk all things language, editing and promotion. You can buy tickets for our upcoming live show here!

Adam Farrer is a memoir writer, lecturer and editor/ His first book, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards. Adam joined us on the podcast to discuss all things memoir writing and the craft of creatively re-telling your own life's experiences. We also discuss:His own turbulent childhoodHis time writing music reviewsWhen The Darkness luckily didn't kill himThe difficult second bookHow the spoken word scene influenced his writing How to market when your publisher has no money. And much more. You can support Adam by following him on Instagram or buying Cold Fish Soup, options on Linktree.You can support The Re-Draft Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=89765049

This weeks episode is with one of Manchester's most talented poets - the ineffable Cherrelle Anne! She is one third of the Poetry Place, she runs Sensually Spoken Word and tomorrow (Wednesday 12th) is set to hit the stage at Manchester International Festival performing new songs and poems. We love Cherrelle, and were delighted to spend time with her.She talks about making poetry work for you, her family and upbringing, and why some events should be ticketed!

In this episode we speak with poet, author of Pink Goo and co-founder of the Poetry to your Ears podcast, Eloise Armary about writing in different tongues, self-publishing, podcast hosting and much much more!