PoetCasting

Part 3 of the Generation Txt podcast includes Emma McGordon and James Wilkes.

Emma McGordon

Emma McGordon was born and raised in West Cumbria. She started writing when she met the late Barry MacSweeney, and her collection, The Hangman and The Stars was published in 2000 (Black Suede Boot Press). She was the Northern Young Writer of the Year in 2002. She has taught poetry at a local prison and was poet-in-residence at Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland.

James Wilkes

James Wilkes was born in Dorset and educated at Oxford and UEA. He spent a year teaching on an organic farm in Japan. The result was Ex Chaos (Renscombe Press, 2006), a series of poems based on Japanese creation myths. James has appeared on Radio 4 and exhibited ‘poem objects’ such as modified egg boxes, papier-mache bowls. His collection of hand printed postcard poems, based on the work of Daniel Defoe is titled ‘A DeTour’.

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