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Greta Stoddart

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Bloodaxe Readings (2023)
Films featuring readings from Fool and Alive Alive O

Lie in a field on your back (2021)

A short poem film made in collaboration with filmmaker Jesse Adlam

Shortlisted for the Poetry Screen Award 2021

Here's a thought I'd rather be thinking (2018)

A short film made in collaboration with young filmmaker Jesse Adlam for Magma Poetry Film Issue Summer 2018. It was screened at the Cinema Museum in London

Audio

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast (2025)

'The great thing about Greta Stoddart – she is one of those poets who is not afraid to set fire to your brain.’ – Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner discusses two poems from Fool in his Poetry Podcast. His close readings of the poems reference TS Eliot and Shakespeare, focusing in particular on the role of the Fool in King Lear.

He also reflects on the importance of Greta’s training in physical theatre and how that might have some bearing on the poems in this her fourth collection.

‘You know, I love Greta Stoddart. She’s so interesting. And the poems, like I say, they look so clinical and clean. It’s like she’s stripped away all the trimmings. And we go in there and it’s cold, but it’s fascinating. Do read, if you can, any poems from Fool by Greta Stoddart.’ – Frank Skinner

Planet Poetry Podcast (2023)
"Did you ever repeat a word so often that its meaning ebbed away? Or look so hard at an object -- say a glass of water -- that it began to hint at unknowable mysteries? No? Then you should join us as we meet Greta Stoddart and hear poetry from her new Bloodaxe collection Fool which will take you to an extraordinary place in your imagination where 'nothing might be what is called for'."

Articles

Poetry Review (2024)
Auden Article

Castaway Companions (2022)
Greta Stoddart chooses poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver and Czeslaw Milosz for her desert island stay – all poems that lead to moments of enlightenment that are as unsettling as they are clarifying

Poetry Review (2022)
Interview

Poem of the week: Guardian (2022)

I don't call myself a poet (2012)
Interview with Greta Stoddart by Kezia Locke

Poetry Archive

Listen to a selection of Greta's poems here

Who's There?

A long poem in various voices inspired by visits to a care home for people with advanced dementia.

Who’s there? was made for radio in collaboration with sound designer Jon Nicholls.

An abridged version of Who’s there? was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Echo Chamber.

It was BBC Pick of the Week and shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award.

Listen to the full and abridged versions of Who's there? :

Full Version Abridged Version

Article on the making of Who's There?

First Breaths of Mourning

Lines from Alive Alive O spoken by Greta feature in this track from electronic sound artist Andrew Ward.

First Breaths Of MourningAndrew Ward

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