Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

The Poet Tree: Contains Strong Language

A joyous and eclectic exploration via music, poetry and guests. Cerys welcomes poets from the Contains Strong Language festival to transport you to Coventry via prose and poetry.

A joyous and eclectic exploration via music, poetry and guests.

This week, as a Poet Tree special, Cerys brings you a taste of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s poetry and spoken word festival Contains Strong Language. This year, the festival is setting up home in the City of Culture, Coventry.

Green City poet-in-residence Liz Berry takes you on a walk around London Road Cemetery: Paxton’s Arboretum, one of the earliest garden cemeteries in the country, designed by Joseph Paxton and now a Grade I listed park and garden. Liz also shares the poems she's created inspired by this location.

Poets Delah Dube, Lorna Zita and Aysar Ghassan introduce their work as part of the festivals' Digi-Poems commission, and Cerys welcomes Coventry based poet Emilie Lauren Jones to The Poet Tree to discuss her writing, her influences and her inspirations.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 26 Sep 2021 10:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

More episodes

Previous

A joyous and eclectic exploration of Cuba via music, poetry and guests

Next

A joyous and eclectic exploration: AI Women

See all episodes from Cerys Matthews

Music Played

  • Fanfare Ciocarlia

    Busbus

  • The Allergies

    Love Somebody

    • Jalapeno.

  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    Moanin'

    • First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings.
    • Blue Note.

  • Damon Albarn

    Royal Morning Blue

    • The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows.
    • Transgressive Records.

  • Toots & The Maytals

    Pressure Drop

    • Island Jamaica.

  • Lord Beginner

    Louise

    • Trinidad Calypso 1939-1959 (Trinidad and Tobago).
    • 10.

  • Parliament

    P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)

    • Mothership Connection.
    • EMI.

  • Peter Case

    When I Was a Cowboy

    • The Midnight Broadcast.

  • Jimmy Rogers

    Chicago Bound

    • Chess: The Rhythm And The Blues.
    • Universal-Island Records Limited.
    • 22.

  • Cloud of I

    Sod

    • Gazing EP.
    • Batov Records.
    • 2.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Blue Bolero

    • Solotude.
    • Gear Box Records.

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Gogol

    • Solo Piano (Instrumentals).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Liraz

    Joon Joon

    • Glitterbeat Records.

  • Makaya McCraven

    Autumn In New York

    • Deciphering The Message.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 9.

  • Jeremy Loops

    This Town (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)

    • Decca.

  • Yann Tiersen

    Prad

    • ALL.
    • Mute.

  • Laoise Kelly

    Lon Dubh /Maidrin Ruadh

  • Willie Mitchell

    Take Five

    • Poppa Willie: The Hi Years: 1962-74 CD2 (The Covers).
    • Hi Records.
    • 24.

  • Cal Tjader

    Afro Blue

    • The Legends: Cal Tjader.
    • Legends.
    • 11.

  • Snoop Dogg

    Gin And Juice

    • INTERSCOPE.

  • Lynda Dawn & Bes Kept

    Roses

  • Tyler, The Creator

    Treehome95 (feat. Coco O & Erykah Badu)

    • Wolf.
    • Odd Future / Sony.
    • 16.

  • Mary Lou Williams

    Dat Dere

    • Free Spirits.

  • James Brown

    Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)

  • Pee Wee Ellis

    Mary Don't You Weep

    • Ridin' Mighty High.
    • Skip Records.

  • MFSB

    Sexy

    • Universal Love.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 009.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Γ“lafur Arnalds

    TREE

  • Arctic Monkeys

    When The Sun Goes Down

    • Domino.

  • Marianne Faithfull

    The Last Thing On My Mind

    • The Very Best Of Marianne Faithfull.
    • Decca Music Group Limited.
    • 6.

  • Maja Lena

    Old Friend Night

  • MFSB

    TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (feat. The Three Degrees)

    • Philadelphia Years: Volume 1 1971-1976 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
    • 9.

  • The O’Jays

    Love Train

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Ansel Collins

    Cotton Dandy

  • SAULT

    Bitter Streets

    • 'NINE' (Explicit).
    • Forever Living Originals.
    • 6.

  • Arlo Parks

    Eugene

  • Nova Catalina Octet

    Sao Paulo

  • Buena Vista Social Club

    Chan Chan

    • World Circuit.

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 Sep 2021 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

Featured in...