Returning after a hiatus due to Covid 19, this episode of The Poetrygram Podcast features Barbican Young Poet Billie Manning. Billie offers us her tips on writing topical poetry, reads some of her work and talks about her writing journey.

Poetrygram listener, Coty Cox also reads a poem they have submitted to the show.

Here are a list of resources mentioned in the show:

• The Poetrygram Prize 2020
• City Lit Online Poetry Writing Courses
• It’s Freezing in LA Magazine
• The work of Haruki Marakami
• Severn Suzuki's address to the UN
• Greta Thunberg
• How to Write Prose Poems
• Sestinas – recommended for writing about political issues.
• The Barbican anthology The World is Burning and I Have Discovered This.
• The Bad Betty Press anthology Field Notes on Survival.

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