Umbilical

With Love, Grief and Fury

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Umbilical

live poetry performance

Salena Godden

Sep 17, 2024

Transcript

Hello comrades,

I hope you are enjoying beautiful Septemberry blue skies today.

I felt like sharing this particular poem with you today. Here’s a photo of my mum before I was born, a little inspiration for this piece. Sharing an audio excerpt of a performance of ‘Umbilical’ as it was read as part of my ‘With Love, Grief and Fury’ set at Out-Spoken on stage at the Southbank and broadcast on BBC’s The Verb and their exciting series of LIVE poetry and spoken word, The Adverb.

I am so delighted to discover ‘Umbilical’ was chosen by Nihal Arthanayake for ‘Pick of the Week’ also on BBC Radio 4, here’s the audio of that poem with an introduction by Nihal. Thank you so much to Ian McMillan and The Verb and to Nihal Arthanayake for getting poetry on the airwaves.

You can hear the full show here at The Verb, BBC Radio 4
Check out to Nihal’s episode of Pick of The Week, BBC Radio 4

Check out our latest episodes of ROARING 20s RADIO: art and culture, books and poetry, music and activism. In the October ‘Wind Blown Apples’ episode we are joined by very special guest and radio show favourite, poet and musician Gemma Rogers.

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Hope to see you here and there and soon. Happy Autumntimes

Keep it burning, sgxx