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  ...