In this episode Helen talks with Beth Calverley - Poetry Machine. exploring collaboration poetry in places of work including: learning, care and play, helping to express what matters.  

Bio: 

Beth Calverley is a poet, creative coach and founder of The Poetry Machine. Her poetry lives and breathes, holding your hand through crisp emotional landscapes.

Beth co-creates poems with people via her supportive practice, The Poetry Machine. She collaborates with places of work, learning, care and play, helping people to express what matters to them most.

She collaborates with places of work, learning, care and play, helping people to express their thoughts and feelings.

One of Rife Magazine’s 2018 influential young people in Bristol, Beth was a Roundhouse Slam Finalist 2018 and a Bristol Life Awards Arts Finalist 2020. She is Poet in Residence at UH Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust and was published in These Are The Hands, the NHS anthology endorsed by Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen.

Beth has performed at iconic venues such as Birmingham Hippodrome, Bristol Old Vic and London Roundhouse. She has worked with the BBC, Sky, Oh Magazine and The Prince’s Trust, among many other brilliant local and national organisations.

Beth is also part of House of Figs, a music and poetry duo, and co-produces Milk Poetry, a nurturing platform for spoken word.

She is Poet in Residence at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT and was published in These Are The Hands, the NHS anthology. She was the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival Poet 2021 and a 2020 Bristol Life Awards Arts Finalist.

Beth has worked with BBC, ITV, Sky and many more. Her collection, Brave Faces & Other Smiles, launched in 2020 with Verve Poetry Press.

Social Media:

www.ThePoetryMachine.live

Instagram: Poetry Machine

Twitter: @BethCalverley

Facebook: ThePoetryMachineUK

Episode photo - Chris Vox 

Podcast Interview and editing - Helen Sheppard | Write Out Loud