Just Another Poet
is Wales' first Youtube poetry channel founded by Taz Rahman in May 2019 to widen access to contemporary poets.
The channel received its first literary commission in April 2020 from Literature Wales and subsequently, the 'New Audience Creation' grants 2022-23 and 2023-24 from the Books Council of Wales' which have supported programming with a wider focus on promoting the whole poetry publishing apparatus and exploring ways of connecting diverse new audiences to contemporary poets.
The advisory board for the channel: Welsh poets Natalie Ann Holborow, Suzanne Iuppa, Indian poet Jonaki Ray, nature writer Lottie Williams, novelist Hammad Rind, Welsh-language biographer Alun Gibbard, and contemporary Caucasus culture expert Dr. Neil Watson.
Upcoming Filming/Editing/In the Pipeline:
Spring 2024 Upcoming: Interviews - poet and disability rights campaigner, and a 2023 Nine Arches Press shortlisted Bethany Handley; Former Poetry London Reviews Editor and Seren poet Dai George; one of the most exciting Black Queer poets Oluwaseun Olayiwola; Creative Futures Prize winner Chloe Eliot; Damian Walford-Davies; Janet Laugharne; Jamie Woods.
Filming has been completed with Emily Vanderploeg, Emily Cotterill, Mari Elis Dunning, Laura Sheldon and these interviews will be uploaded over the next few months.
Most Recently Uploaded Programmes Available to watch:
1st March 2024 - Writing Wales: New Perspectives with Sophie Buchaillard & Katie Munnik
8th February 2024 - A 'creative writing' author chat: Janet Laugharne and Sophie Buchaillard
26th January - Exposé: The Welshness of Dylan Thomas - Alun Gibbard explores Dylan's reputation via in-depth discussions with T James Jones, former Archdruid, and the American Dylan expert David Lloyd
14th December 2023 - Exposé: The Cardiff Poetry Scene (from 60s to the 90s) conversation between veteran poets Robert Walton and Tôpher Mills
5th December 2023 - Poet Interview with Abigail Parry, shortlisted for the 2023 T S Eliot Prize
23rd November - Severn Bridge at Clifton Litfest 2023 featuring Abeer Ameer, Rhian Edwards, Caleb Perkin and Kay Lyons (Wales meets south west England)
5th November 2023 - Book Launch: Yer Ower Voices! Culture Matters Dialect Poems in Welsh and English from Cymru. Filmed at Cardiff Central Library
19th October 2023 - Interview with the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize winner Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
16th October 2023 - Interview with the poet and writer Joshua Jones, twice shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition
26th September 2023 - 'Exposé: Writing for Illtud' is a glimpse into how the historic St. Illtud's Church in Llantwit Major, adjacent to the 6th-century college of learning founded by Illtud, inspires the brilliant present-day local writing community
3rd May 2023 - The story of Just Another Poet Youtube channel
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