Alternative Stories and Fake Realities
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is the anthology podcast of the spoken-word audio production company Alternative Stories.
Working with poets, novelists and dramatists we tell stories and share the work of writers including radio plays, short fiction, book excerpts and writer interviews. We also explore the things that inspire writers including folklore and mythology as well as sharing content from other podcasts produced by Alternative Stories.
With almost 150 podcasts to choose from we hope there'll be something here to enjoy if you're into literature, books and the spoken arts.
Please check out our website https://alternativestories.com/
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities
Seren Books 40th Anniversary
In this edition we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Seren Books, the publisher from south Wales responsible for launching the careers of many poets and for putting out a series of memorable poetry collections including a few featured previously on Alt Stories
In this podcast you can hear an interview with Seren’s outgoing poetry editor Amy Wack who leaves the press at the end of October 2021. She looks back at her time with Seren and the changes to the style and readership of poetry since she joined.
The presenter of this podcast is Nadia Wyn Abouayen and the readers from Alt Stories are Tiffany Clare and Chris Gregory
We feature the following poems in this podcast
“We are coming” by Kim Moore is taken from her recently published collection “All the men I never married” and is read by Tiffany Clare
“Yet, he remembers Baghdad” by Abeer Ameer from the 2021 collection “Inhale / Exile” read by Tiffany Clare
“Air Camera” by Christopher Meredith from his collection “Still” is read by Chris Gregory
“Wrack of Summer” is taken from Polly Atkin’s latest collection “Much With Body” and is read by Tiffany Clare
“Karaoke King” is the title poem of Dai George’s latest collection which came out in June. The reader is Chris Gregory.
“Paean for a cliff railway driver” is written and read by Paul Henry and is taken from the upcoming collection “As if to sing” to be published by Seren in 2022
From the collection “Let Me Tell you What I saw” by Adnan Al Sayegh, the recording we include features the voice of translator Jenny Lewis reading the text in English whilst Adnan Al Sayegh reads the original Arabic version. The music in the background is called “The Moon Fades” and it is reproduced here with the kind permission of Naseer Shamma
Production, sound design, editing and music are by Chris Gregory unless stated.
We would like to thank Sarah Johnson of Seren Books for her invaluable help in the making of this podcast and Amy Wack for sharing her thoughts on her time at Seren with us. We’d also like to thank all of the contributing poets for allowing us to use their poems.
If you would like to find out more about Seren Books and buy the collections featured you can do so by visiting the press’s website here https://www.serenbooks.com/
You can also follow Seren on social media here
https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
You can also follow our featured poets
Kim Moore https://twitter.com/kimmoorepoet
Polly Atkin https://twitter.com/pollyrowena
Abeer Ameer https://twitter.com/hijjabi
Paul Henry https://www.paulhenrypoet.co.uk/
Dai George http://daigeorge.com/
Christopher Meredith https://christophermeredit9.wixsite.com/website
Adnan Al-Sayegh http://adnanalsayegh.com/eng/
Please follow Alternative Stories on twitter at https://twitter.com/StoriesAlt for information on our upcoming drama, poetry and fiction podcasts as well as our workshops and writer / publisher services