Poets Talk: Denise Riley and Tom Pow

Poets Denise Riley and Tom Pow have both enjoyed hugely successful careers which span decades of poetry, writings, and other arts-related projects. From Riley’s first collection ‘Marxism for Infants’, published in 1977, to Pow’s ‘The Village and the Road’, shown at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, each poet continues to publish and create new and unparalleled work. But how have their experiences in the poetry landscape changed and developed over the years? What’s remained the same, what has shifted, and what have been the most challenging, or most joyful, moments of those changes and continuations?