MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAIN – Détails, épisodes et analyse

ELIZA FIVER is a poet and spoken word artist from North London that survived art school to write poems as she speaks to rooms full of people.

Nols and Eliza make some automatic poems, get very off track and put the London spoken word scene to rights.

Eliza's first poetry showcase is at TRADE STARS in Islington on the 14th August 2025.

Give Eliza a follow @elizafiver on instagram

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Bună Ziua!

Nols is joined by Thea, a resident artist at the Roundhouse for 2025, a silly messy artist and the humblest slam poet on the scene. Thea is currently working on a bilingual show called:

IF I WERE TO SAY IT IN ENGLISH

Thea's instagram is @that1thea - FOLLOW NOW

Nols and Thea make poems to the following prompts

Things that hang - 3 mins

Write your horoscope for last year - 3 mins

Tell your father how you are winning - 3 mins

Thea recommends the following poets!

Bogdan Pălici @bogdanpalici

Olga Ștefan @olga.stefan.kantor

Tyrone Lewis @tyronelewis

Cătălin Iovu @iamthepartyinsideyourhead

Kayla Feldman @kaylamtf

Răzvan Omotă @razvan.omota

Bradley Taylor @bradleytaylorpoet

Eva Luca @cerneala.inalta

Bella Cox @Bellacoxpoet

Anastasia Gavrilovici @anastasiagavrilovici

Lola Theresa @theresa_lola

Festival: Transylvania Spoken Word Festival @transylvaniaspokenword

Catch Thea at open mics around London

Team Thea T-Shirts available soon

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Nols Nathankski and friend of the show Stevie Grant make a special episode to promote Stevie's fundraiser for Hackney Night Shelter on the 22nd January 2026 at Stoke Newington Bookshop.

Stevie Grant is a poet, performer and emergency shelter worker from Hackney who works with the people suffering from homelessness in London.

Nols and Stevie make prompts for each other and make poems on the show.

They also perform new material they have both been working on.

If you wish to support Hackney Night Shelter please make a donation.

We need your support | Hackney Night Shelter

If you would like to know more about volunteering for Hackney Night Shelter email: volunteer@hackneydoorways.org.uk

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Find Stevie at SteviePoems on insta: https://www.instagram.com/steviepoems?igsh=MW83Z3A4Mzl0MzFrYg==

Ticket page: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hackneynightshelter1/2002560

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Trigger warning: Death, Cancer, medical scenes, invasive surgery, lots of swearing.

Nols first episode of 2026 looking back at a year of medical drama. The poems in this episode were made across 2025 around the multiple hospital and doctors visits Nols has to find out if he is dying too quickly or not.

Nols explores how death and dying have been key influences on his poetry and his life in 2025 and the experience of navigating a national health service that is slowly being eaten up by private interests.

Nols reads i like your body from page 10 of e.e. cumming's collected poems 1923-1958 E. E. Cummings: Selected Poems 1923-1958 | Faber Poetry

Nols reads Heat Map by Richard Siken Heat Map | Poem

and Pain Scale by Richard Siken out now in Rattle Magazine 89 -Pain Scale by Richard Siken - Rattle: Poetry #89 – Fall 2025 - Rattle: Poetry

Find more Richard's work here: www.richard-siken.com

Nols recites Bill Knott's 'Death' from his first book The Naomi Poems Corpse and Beans out now on Black Ocean Press The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Bill Knott — Black Ocean

Nols also plays recordings of voicenotes and works to several prompts.

If you have been effected by this episode reach out to a friend or family member or email nols@makepoetryweirdagain.com and make some poetry out of it.

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Nols Nathankski sits down with his bestie Ivka Fox for a giggle. Ivka is a Bulgarian popstar, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer and actress. They discuss why she is most certainly NOT a poet. Ivka debut's "Shes a Gaslight" one of the new tracks she is working on which can be heard at the start of the episode.

Ivka suggested the idea of Nols making a podcast so this is all her fault. They discuss making poems as a baby, what poems to read an alien baby locked in a basement and why too many people are practicing at the Open Mic.

Ivka and Nols make poems with prompts from Redeeming Features. 

Ivka reads from Ella Frears Shine, Darling , the Koestler trust new poetry from prisons Vol.1 and Nol's unreleased pamphlet. 

Check out Ivka's latest movie project below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5eHk1RTBY

Check out Ivka's past musical projects below;

Tapeheart | Drop Out Venus

Supercool | Dark Willow

Contact her @ivka_369 on instagram to give her a publishing deal.

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Nols Nathankski & Annika Paniza celebrate William Blake's 268th birthday! 

Annika is a writer and poet currently living in Brighton. Annika and Nols discuss Annika's brilliant idea for an open mic centred around navigating queer relationships in a vegan restaurant. They obsess about finding the infinity in the ordinary and why mental health walks always make the best poems.

They make Blakean prompts with the help of an english teacher's forum that Nols now cannot find. 

1. Write a poem that starts with a small thing and find infinity it. Blake was always finding the divine in the ordinary. - 3 mins
2. Write a poem that begins with the voice of childlike wonder. Then in the second half use the voice of sad experience. Show that neither is wrong.- 3mins
3. Mindforged manacles - Write a liberation poem. - 3 mins

Annika shouts out the Actors pub in brighton 

Fiona Chan - @inbetweenlanguages

Aflo - @aflo.thepoet

LINK TO ANNIKA'S SUBSTACK: 

https://substack.com/@journalspills?r=4sjua9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

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BONUS EPISODE - Nols makes an episode on two of his queer poetry icons William Blake and Oscar Wilde. 

The show is a meditation on the two poets as Nols had a birthday party for William Blake on the 28th November 2025 with some incredible poets making poems in his living room. 

Oscar Wilde died on the 30th November 1900 an exile in Paris. He was misquoted until the end. 

Nols read work from both poets and some new poems written this weekend to both. 

Check out Oscar Wilde's poem Requiescat here.

Requiescat by Oscar Wilde - Poems | Academy of American Poets

You can read De Profundis here;

De Profundis

This show was massively influenced by Philip Hoare's William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love - Buy it here; 

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love - Philip Hoare

Read William Blake's Introduction here;

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence | The Poetry Foundation

Read William Blake's Introduction here;

Auguries of Innocence | The Poetry Foundation

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Nols Nathankski and Redeeming Features come up with a new hardcore open mic! They talk about punk poetry and how open mic can save your life.

Redeeming Features is a punk poet: visceral, hyperactive, and absurd. He has opened for a number of UK punk bands and gigs regularly in the UK and abroad. He has a published book called ‘Sniffing Glue and Playing Chicken on the M4.’ All profits from the book go to the UK mental health charity MIND. 

His second book "Sex Injuries" is out now, published by London Poetry.

Buy his books direct off his insta @RedeemingF 

Nols and Redeeming Features make poems to 3 prompts from @Maccathepoet

@RedeemingF performs NEW SHIT never heard before but coming to an open mic near you! 

Redeeming Features shouts out:

@Avawordpoetry

@BYOBpoetry

@Wordzoo

@Thatgoddamnpoetryjam

@rioatactshowtime

@richbliss

@arcadia

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Nols Nathankski sits down for a proper brew with Rick McLean aka @MaccathePoet to talk about anti-racism at the Open Mic and how to piss off flag shaggers on tiktok, a Leeds-born, London-lost ranter who sees the world through a lens of dry wit, frustration, and the occasional moment of nostalgia.

If you like a bit of John Cooper Clark, a strong cuppa, shit loads of vinegar on your chippy tea, raw honesty, lots of swearing and complaining about everything, you’ll probably like this too.

They make a poem from The Poetry Fruit Machine out now on Rough Trade Books and then do poem swap taking inspiration from Switched Up poetry in Manchester. 

Rick Shouts out 

The famalam, the pals,the London poetry, the Mrs, the cats and the local kebab bossman.

Ava Word Poetry 

Rich Bliss

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Nols Nathankski finds out that Ella Frears HAS NEVER DONE AN OPEN MIC!

They also discuss her new brilliant collaborative collection of prompts POETRY FRUIT MACHINE, the power of prompts and why no poems will be read the poets office Christmas party on the 1st December 2025 at the Social.

Ella Frears is a poet based in London. She has been shortlisted for The T. S. Eliot Prize, a Sky Arts Award, and The Forward Prize twice. Her books Shine, Darling, and Goodlord are out with Corsair and her collaborative poetry card game The Poetry Fruit Machine is out with Rough Trade Books. She hosts chat and music show Tears for Frears on Soho Radio. 

Nols and Ella make poems from 3 minute prompts provided by Tyreece Asamoah and the POETRY FRUIT MACHINE.

Buy The Poetry Fruit Machine from @roughtradebooks

POETRY FRUIT MACHINE - ELLA FREARS & JESSICA TODD – Rough Trade Books

Ella reads Drunk By Noon by Jennifer L. Knox (with kind permission from @jenniferlknoxpoet)

Ella shouts out

@jessicatodd

@eileenmyles

@Willharris

@joedunthorne

See Ella sing Karaoke and be in a room of poets not reading any poems at the Social on the 1st December 2025 - Nols will be there after @wordspacepoems :)

The Poets' Office Christmas Party London Tickets at The Social W1 on 1st December 2025 | Ents24

Huge thanks to @tanyelitaze who inspired this episode!

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