Jeremy’s poetry podcast
My name is Jeremy Patton. I have started writing, mainly poetry, as a member of The Written Word Group Almanzora.
This podcast is where I have chosen to share my work and also discussion and information about poetry.
Another member of the group, Frank Soderberg, has a podcast of his own. You can find that here: https://twwgalmanzora.podbean.com/
Other members of The Written Word Group have some of their work available to listen to on the podcast hosted by the group’s leader, Berni Albrighton. You can find that here:
Episodes
11 episodes
Orange is the Colour of Halloween
Another Halloween poem, this one about the monster in the White House. It may seem superficially anti-American, but it isn’t, it is just lamenting what America is becoming.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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2:06
Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s Halloween
Went to bed last night and wrote half of this, having watched Newsnight. Finished it before I got up this morning. Heroes don’t always wear capes, some villains are always in fancy dress. This is the first poem in my new season.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:33
Episode 9: Falling Off a Log (a love poem)
Write a poem, and you can do whatever you like with it. You can make it for everyone, or, as in this case, just for one very special person.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:02
Episode 8: I Took Wine
I went out to dinner on Friday 13th. I’m lucky I did. This is a poem I finished a few minutes ago, it is now Saturday 14th. It’s probably a first draft. If you see it next week, or tomorrow, or at noon, it might be diffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:31
Episode 7: Keep Off the Grass
This tries to explain why I went 50 years without writing poetry. Although it is true, I am not sure who was telling me not to. It was possibly myself. My brother is not gloomy as an adult, though he was a bit miserable as a child, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:17
Episode 6: The Shopping List
A cheery tale of domestic abuse. This is not a rare phenomenon among elderly couples, but is always shocking when you see it. Not always actual physical violence, but verbal abuse and financial control are common and not hard to spot if you kno...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:46
Episode 5: Valentine’s Day Poem 2025
Sometimes love is soppy, and so are love poems. The Written Word Group had an open mic meeting on Feb 14 this year and I wrote this poem for my wife who I first met 25 years ago. she liked it, and I hope you do and yes, it is a bit soppy…...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:59
Episode 4: On Tripping while Carrying a Bottle of Brandy
I won a bottle of brandy on a tombola and owned it for about a minute before tripping and smashing it beneath me. I lay for a while in a pool of brandy with large shards of glass. It could have been serious, but it wasn’t. A friend drove me hom...
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Episode 4
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1:08
Episode 3: I Like a Poem that Rhymes
I like poems, and sometimes I like a poem that rhymes. What I have always hated are rhyming couplets, two lines, same rhyme, restricting your thoughts, sounding like a nursery rhyme. This poem is made up of more than twenty of the c...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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2:17
