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LifeJacket

ArtfulScribe

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/16j. Total Éps: 8

Introducing LifeJacket: a literary podcast and buoyancy aid, produced by ArtfulScribe.

Composed from ArtfulScribe’s extensive audio archive of live literature events, recorded at partner venues such as Mayflower Studios and Forest Arts Centre, this podcast celebrates writers and writing from the Solent region and beyond for the listener, centring community and encouragement.

Hosted and sound designed by Antosh Wojcik, each episode of LifeJacket is a deep listening experience, an invitation to pause, be, flow, to drift in the waters and sound waves, to find new or returning voices in the currents. Part performance, part provocation, part journal, LifeJacket takes influence from On Being’s Poetry Unbound & The Paris Review and welcomes all listeners into its waters.

Season 1 launches on National Poetry Day 2025, with episodes released every other week. Follow the link in the ArtfulScribe's bio or on the website.

LifeJacket is made possible through Arts Council Funding. Stay buoyant.

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Perimeters, Gaps, Lines

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

jeudi 16 octobre 2025 • Durée 12:15

Poets and writers often find themselves navigating the perimeter. You face the physical perimeter of a line or paragraph end. You skirt the boundary of the idea trying to find the right way in. Pause at the perimeter of your drift, feel the ebb of the moment, seize a gap in your day and examine what happens inside the lines with poems by Liz Amos, Craig Chalmers and Jo Fisher in this week’s LifeJacket.

You can follow Liz Amos' work at https://liz-amos.com/

Craig Chalmers is a regular performer at Hampshire & Dorset open mics.

Jo Fisher writes on Substack as https://jofisher.substack.com

LifeJacket, a literary podcast and buoyancy aid, produced by ArtfulScribe, available to stream on all platforms, with episodes released every other week. Follow the link in the ArtfulScribe bio or on the website at artfulscribe.co.uk to listen and access liner notes to this episode.

LifeJacket is made possible through Arts Council Funding. Stay buoyant.

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To Be Remade

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

jeudi 2 octobre 2025 • Durée 15:51

As we wade in the waters, we find ourselves stepping across time - the past, present and future flows through language. A poem from further up the river remains in these currents and in our listening, remakes our understanding of language, ourselves, time.

In this episode of LifeJacket, we hear the poems of Concha Méndez, whose poems, in the words of poet and translator Harriett Truscott, shift from vibrant statements of desire and possibility, through grief at the loss of her first child and her country, to an expression of the role of the poet as truth-teller in the world,.

Featuring Harriet Truscott reading the works of Concha Méndez, recorded at ArtfulScribe’s LitFest 2024. A special thank you to Paola Ulacia Altolaguirre and the Concha Méndez Estate for permission to air this material. You can learn more about Harriet’s work at https://hmtruscott.co.uk/

LifeJacket is made possible through Arts Council Funding. Stay buoyant.

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Where Am I?

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

jeudi 30 octobre 2025 • Durée 13:20

The writer sometimes doubles as a psychogeographer, imbuing place with human behaviour, nature and emotion - or the reverse, imbuing the human with the elements of a place. This week’s episode of LifeJacket plays two pieces from Angela Chicken and Issa Loyaan Farrah-Kelly, and strafes processes/practices such as ‘inscaping’, to borrow the term from Gerard Manley Hopkins and ‘zoning’ from Wanda Coleman, with some Ezra Pound and Catherine Liu concepts sprinkled in there for good measure.

Angela Chicken is a poet and writer based in Southampton.

Issa Loyaan Farrah-Kelly is a poet and the host of The Clifford Street Corner on www.voicefmradio.co.uk a monthly show dedicated to poetry, lyrics and literature.

LifeJacket is made possible through Arts Council Funding. Stay buoyant.

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Relearning My Name

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

jeudi 13 novembre 2025 • Durée 16:33

Episode 4: Relearning My Name

The name is the story. In this LifeJacket special, two young writers navigate systemic and social issues in an expression of solidarity, hope and future-making.

Relearning My Name is an audio docu-drama which combines dramatic monologue with real interview extracts to show the racial prejudices faced by students of South Asian descent in the UK school system.

Written and Directed by Batool Zaidi & Cassie Wicks.

Mix and Mastered by Andy Halliday.

Originally commissioned by BBC Arts, executive produced by Jeremy Routledge at Calling the Shots.

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The Desire Catalysts

Saison 1 · Épisode 5

jeudi 27 novembre 2025 • Durée 19:17

This episode of LifeJacket concerns the desires of poets, clearly catalysed by experiences and lyrical dreams. We’ll hear from Harley Truslove as they navigate their intimate relationship with the moon, as all poets are wont. Claire Griffin stokes the fire one feels in the gut when they are homeward bound. And Claire Hillier interrogates the visages and visions of a woman burned to the ground, to rise from the ashes anew, ablaze with renewed possibilities.

These performances are all scored by the Tongue Fu band, led by Chris Redmond, recorded at the showcase celebration of ArtfulScribe’s How to Play a Poem Like a Song cohort. There is a live improv band responding to the poets words in the moment, themselves catalysed by the lyric and bringing these poems of desire into the air. More info at https://www.tonguefu.co.uk/

About the poets:

Claire Griffin is an Irish writer living in Germany. Her poetry explores the thresholds of midlife—motherhood, memory, identity, and time. She has performed with Tongue Fu and is an active member of the Irish Writers Centre. She was highly commended in the Irish Creative Writing Awards. Her debut collection-in-progress, Midway, gathers poems on what we carry, what we let go of, and what carries us.

Claire Hillier, known as Claire H ‘the poet’, is a poet, spoken word artist, and musician from St Helens, Merseyside. Nomadic by nature, she has lived in Winchester, Brighton, Stroud, and is now Bournemouth based. She self-published a no#1 bestselling poetry collection, and performs at numerous UK festival stages, and sell-out events. She hosts SCRATCH @ Patch Bournemouth.

Harley is a local poet, performer, and general nuisance. They’re the assistant facilitator for ArtfulScribe’s 15-18 group on Tuesday evenings (come along!) and can generally be found around open mics sharing their work. They are currently semi-touring their first ever solo show, ‘thirty’, a comedy/poetry set about getting older. They’re also known for their gamebook work, and recently released their first novel with Holmgard Press

Their Crude Materials

Saison 1 · Épisode 6

jeudi 11 décembre 2025 • Durée 17:39

How is our lifejacket holding up? From what crude materials did I compose its sleeveless visage? Through life’s shrapnel and stray pebbles, brackish currents and brutal rapids, it has seen better days. A crude yet crafted thing. The poem is such a thing, too. Both a crude, yet crafted thing. The poem, a composite of those simple stray truths and experiences, yet honed and crafted into a structure, either recognisable, like a jacket, or disparate.

Featuring poems from Jayne Ede, The Village Boy, Syd Meats and J Pyrite.

About Jayne Ede

Jayne is a civil servant living in Southampton. They write poems drawn from natural, social, and emotional observations, often inspired by animal behaviour and the everyday creatures overlooked by humans. Their style is energetic and rhythmic, balancing sincerity with silliness, and they particularly enjoy exploring how the ordinary can reveal the extraordinary.

About The Village Boy

Based in Hampshire, The Village Boy is a spoken-word poet of British and Sierra Leonean

heritage. His poetry explores themes of love, anger, and longing, employing central tenets of humanism and existentialism to resonate with a diverse audience. His performances have

graced venues such as the Barbican Centre and Victorious Festival, as well as more intimate settings including universities, weddings, pubs, and open mic nights. His work is available on Spotify and other audio platforms.

About Syd Meats

Syd Meats is a singer-songwriter and poet. His songs have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 but his poems haven’t. He has performed at events and festivals around the UK and was a 2019 Hammer & Tongue Regional Poetry Slam finalist. From 2014 to 2018 he ran a grass-roots open mic event in Romsey, Hants. He was shortlisted for Verve’s first Poem of the Month in April 2025, and Highly Commended in the 2025 Charm Poetry Prize.

Anchor

Saison 1 · Épisode 8

jeudi 22 janvier 2026 • Durée 13:02

And so our drift this season comes to an end. We’ve reached the shore. We’ve stayed buoyant, surfing on the voices of the Solent, writing alive as the tide.

This season’s finale features ‘Anchor’ by Eden Wright, a poetic spoken word audio drama set at the cliff edge of a non-descript coastal town, where Lyn, our protagonist, finds herself each night, mourning.

Blending magic-realism and a coastal-gothic aesthetic, ‘Anchor’ explores the loss of a friend to addiction as Lyn endures the cycle of grief and must grapple with the internal, yet unwieldy voice of Stephen, her deceased friend, who unintentionally haunts her. The play delves into what it means to let go of someone and how to begin the process of healing.

Anchor was written by Eden Wright.

Eden Wright is a scientist by brain and poet by heart, currently residing in Hampshire. They are trans, autistic, a malteasers lover, a board gamer, and a multiple books at once-er. He has been published in Ambit & Young Poets Network, as well as contributing to the prologue "The Last Bit of the Moon" as part of Opera Up Close's rendition of Riders to the Sea.

The voice of Lyn/Stephen was performed by Scarlett Briant.

Recorded at Hightown Studios, Southampton. Sound design, recording, mix and master by Andy Halliday.

Anchor was commissioned by BBC Arts and produced by ArtfulScribe, executive produced by Jeremy Routledge at Calling The Shots.

New Creatives is supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts.

LifeJacket is produced by ArtfulScribe, a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton, supporting emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the Solent region. ArtfulScribe is supported by Arts Council England.

I am your host Antosh Wojcik. This is LifeJacket. Thanks for listening. Stay buoyant.

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There Is Always A Light

Saison 1 · Épisode 7

jeudi 8 janvier 2026 • Durée 12:24

New year, new voices.

This week's episode of LifeJacket features young poets from ArtfulScribe's Wessex Schools annual poetry slam, radiant young writers expressing themselves in lyrical slam poetics, surprising allegories, daftly poignant soliloquies and moving anecdotes.

You’ll hear poems from the 2024 cohort, students of Applemore College, New Forest Academy, Hounsdown School and The Romsey School.

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