Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.

In this episode, we talk to Vanessa Lampert about her debut collection Say It With Me which explores themes of family, the everyday and loss. She discusses how writing can be an act of remembrance when living with grief, and how certain animals can be symbols of hope.

Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist and poet from Oxfordshire. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London. Since graduating in 2019 she has won the Café Writers prize, the Edward Thomas prize, the Sentinel prize and the Ver Poetry prize twice and come second in the Fish, Yeovil, Oxford Brookes, Ware and Kent & Sussex prizes. She has been placed in many other competitions including commendations in the Bridport, Troubadour, Alpine Fellowship and Daily Telegraph prizes. She was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2020 and listed in 2021.

‘Say it With Me’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/say-it-with-me/

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards

The interviewer is Sarah Johnson

The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.

Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories

You can find out more about Vanessa Lampert by visiting her website https://vanessalampert.me or by following her on social media:

X: @nessalampert

Instagram: @vanessa_lampert_2018

Other books by Vanessa Lampert:

‘On Long Loan’ (Live Cannon) https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/on-long-loan-vanessa-lampert

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Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Nerys Williams about her collection ‘Republic’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.