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Apples and Snakes is England's leading spoken word poetry organisation, with artists at its heart. Spoken word trailblazers, we exist to champion the development of extraordinary artists, amplify ignored voices and to challenge expectations of what poetry is and can be.
Our latest audio project – Apples and Snakes: The Podcast, explores what it means to be Black, British and a poet or spoken word artist.
Apples and Snakes: The Podcast was produced by Natalie Fiawoo, with audio production by Drew Horley for The Lab Studios. The Podcast will be available to listen to and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast platforms.
Our latest audio project – Apples and Snakes: The Podcast, explores what it means to be Black, British and a poet or spoken word artist.
Apples and Snakes: The Podcast was produced by Natalie Fiawoo, with audio production by Drew Horley for The Lab Studios. The Podcast will be available to listen to and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast platforms.
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Welcome to the first series of our new Podcast.
This season, we will be focusing on what it means to be Black, British and a poet or spoken word artist.
In this episode our season host, Yomi Sode, talks with series Producer, Natalie Fiawoo about her journey into poetry and why it was important for Apples and Snakes to curate a series that focused solely on the experiences of Black British Poets.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Learn more about why we've decided to make this podcast on our website.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed it, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
In this episode our host Yomi Sode talks to Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Caleb Femi about Publishing when it comes to Black British Poets.
Nii is celebrating 20 years since he founded Flipped Eye Publishing and Caleb has just been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
They talk about the difficulties that Black people face when it comes to navigating publishing and the things that have been done to start the process of change.
Caleb shares his Poem 'Honeytrap & Likkle Bwoi' from his collection Poor.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
As we return to the conversation of Publishing, in this episode, our host Yomi Sode talks with Caleb Femi and Nii Ayikwei Parkes about the the uniqueness of the point in time we are experiencing.
Are poets are the true rock stars of the literary world? Why are there so many strange expectations and rules placed on poets in regards to what they should do, be and look like.
Nii shares his poem ‘To Be in Love’
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
In this episode our host Yomi Sode talks to Zena Edwards and Eklipse about the use of music when it comes to poetry and what that means to the Black community as well as the isolation it can cause in the wider poetry community.
Zena shares some stories about her journey over the past two decades and Eklipse talks about why he made the move from poetry to Grime and the space and freedom that music gives him.
Zena shares her poem 'When the 33's spin'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
Returning to the conversation of music and poetry, Yomi Sode continues to talk with Zena Edwards and Eklipse about music and poetry and the colonial implications that surround the page vs stage conversation.
They talk about how Black poets are breaking the barriers that have been put in place when it comes to cultural authenticity and starting to ignore these restrictive ideals.
Eklipse shares his track 'London City' (Prod. JayJForty7 & Eklipse)
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
In this episode our host Yomi Sode talks to Khadijah Ibrahiim and Malaika Kegode about the importance of including regional voices in the conversations about the landscape of Black British Poetry.
Khadijah talks about her poetry journey, why she founded Leeds Young Authors and Malaika discusses how rural voices are still sometimes left out of the conversation and why that needs to change.
Malaika shares her poem 'Legacy'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
We come back to our conversation with our host Yomi Sode and Khadijah Ibrahiim and Malaika Kegode discussing the importance of including regional voices when we talk about Black British poets.
Spaces for development and growth are so important when poets are just starting out as the scene can feel very isolating. Both Malaika and Khadija have spent a lot of time creating spaces for this kind of development and here they share some of the amazing things that have come out of those spaces.
Khadijah shares her poem 'Kitch'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
And we’re back!!
In this episode our host Yomi Sode talks to Casey Bailey and Que AKA Quethewolf about poetry in education and some of the unlearning that we have all had to do because of the way that we poetry has been taught to us. Has the curriculum made poetry unattractive to many children and young people and does that stay with them into adulthood?
Casey shares some of his journey to this point and Que talks about his platform Dope Readers.
Casey shares his poem 'Waking'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
Back with host Yomi Sode and guests Casey Bailey and Que to continue the conversation around Poetry in education.
This time they talk about access points to poetry and how we need to consider, more carefully, how to make poetry accessible and relatable to audiences that don’t see themselves or their lives reflected in poems that are taught in school.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
In the penultimate episode of season one, host Yomi Sode talks about the importance of owning and telling our own stories with Kat Francois and Reece Williams.
They discuss bravery, worrying about how people will receive your authentic voice, how it is a fight for Black poets being able to tell their real truth and how they have had to unlearn the actions associated with silencing themselves.
Kat shares her poem 'Tongue Tied'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
For this seasons final episode, we come back to the conversation between our host Yomi Sode, Kat Francois and Reece Williams
They talk about they therapy that exists in Black poets having the space and scope to tell their own stories and spend some time considering how we can make platforms for younger Black and mixed Black poets to take up the mantel and pass the traditions on.
Reece shares his poem 'The origin Story of Reece the Poet'
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
WE ARE BACK!!
Welcome to season 2 of Apples and Snakes: The Podcast!
Have a listen here to find out what you are in store for.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Thanks for listening to Apples and Snakes: The Podcast! If you enjoyed the episode, subscribe to find out when the next episode will drop, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.
For our first episode this season, Yomi talks with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego.
Artists spend so much time creating wellbeing sessions for others but what does it look like when you do that same thing for yourself? What can you do to create your own safeguarding boundaries?
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
We are back for the second part of the convo with with Be Manzini and Tanaka Fuego discussing personal and artistic wellbeing.
What does it look like when create wellbeing spaces for themselves? What can you do to create your own safeguarding boundaries?
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
This episode, Yomi chats with Josephine 'Realitie' Rollins and Adrian B. Earle talking about what it is like to experience the UK poetry scene as someone with a disability.
How does it manifest in the work and what is it like during a performance.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Welcome to the second part of our conversation with Josephine 'Realitie' Rollins and Adrian B. Earle talking about what it is like to experience the UK poetry scene as someone with a disability.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
For our penultimate episode of the season, Yomi speaks with Kenny Baraka and John Bernard about the work that poets do when it comes to reaching those that are labelled "Hard to Reach".
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
Our final episode of the season has us back with Kenny Baraka and John Bernard about the work that poets do when it comes to reaching those that are labelled "Hard to Reach".
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
For our first episode of this brand new season, Yomi talks live with Malika Booker as part of our 40th Birthday Celebrations at Roundhouse.
Yomi and Malika talk about poetry, lessons and the rituals that have formed a big part of their lives and writing journey.
Malika shares her poem ‘Jesus in the wilderness’
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
In this week's episode, Yomi and Shirley discuss Shirley's journey to poetry. From freestyling to crafting poems and how poets that she had poured so much into, finally helped her layout and push her own collection.
Apples and Snakes:The Podcast is hosted by Yomi Sode with Sound production by Drew at Lab Studios.
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