Mark Waldron Podcast Interview
Mark Waldron's fourth collection Sweet, like Rinky-Dink was published by Bloodaxe in May 2019, three years after the publication of his first collection from Bloodaxe, Meanwhile, Trees.
PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH MARK WALDRON
Poetry Review Podcast, Mark Waldron talks to Emily Berry, 4 December 2019
Half-hour podcast interview with Mark Waldron. Among many other things, he spoke to Emily Berry about the brilliantly funny and quirky films he made for his latest collection Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink (all on the title page, plus one is posted below). He also read two new poems ‘Contingency’ and ‘to Dig’, which are published in the autumn issue of The Poetry Review.
‘In a conversation that will lighten spirits and fire up brain cells, Emily Berry talks to Mark Waldron in the latest Poetry Review podcast. They discuss children’s books, the theatre and performance, Beckett, Ashbery and “meant silliness”. “I like mixing up childhood and adulthood,” says Waldron, “things from childhood I want to resolve – or look at anyway.” His interest is in the separation between inside and outside – “letting the inside out and seeing if people will accept that.” He also offers two wonderful readings of his poems ‘Contingency’ and ‘To Dig’, first published in The Poetry Review, 109:3, Autumn 2019.’
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Mark Waldron reads the title poem from Sweet, like Rinky-Dink.
MEANWHILE, TREES
The Observer, Poetry Book of the Month, Sunday 26 June 2016
Meanwhile, Trees was very well reviewed by Carol Rumens in The Observer of 26 June in their Poeetry Book of the Month column. The review was accompanied by his poem 'No More Mr Nice Guy'.
‘His special skill is comedy, but not the standup sort. His speakers expose themselves self-accusingly, defiantly, or bashfully, while at the same time seeming snug as bugs in their tightly interlocked chainmail of precise language…. And there lies the delight of the collection: it gives us a rare sense of the Elizabethan richness of an English that’s available right now. Underneath the defamiliarising ingenuity, the political pretension-pricking and all the narrative verve and swerve, the diction is the real star of this invigorating book.’ – Carol Rumens, Observer [on Meanwhile, Trees]
[29 June 2016]
