The Madrid Review Podcast

Behind creative expressions, there lies an individual to be understood.  Here listen to the stories of poets and authors unravel; through an exploration of their philosophies, communities, and history; questions of language, art and selfhood will be explored. Not only why people write but why this person writes and what they say. From listening to a poet recite their favourite poet to hearing about a stranger they cannot forget , this is a place to explore our common strokes of humanity.

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Poet Steve Denehan talks with Grace about the writing process, life in the vastness of the universe and his distaste for small talk. Listen by clicking on this link. 

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland, with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and five poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times' New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly. 

Check out his website (with poetry you can actually read) here.

Click to get him on X here. 

Poet Paul Stephenson talks with Grace about the writing through the grieving process and reads poems from his collection Hard Drive (Carcanet, 2023), a stoic and grounded narrative telling of deep-rooted love and loss, of witness and grief. Listen by clicking on this link. 

Paul was born and grew up in Cambridge, England. He has lived in London, Paris and Brussels and the Netherlands. He has published poems in journals including Magma, Poetry London, The Rialto, Bare Fiction and The Interpreter’s House, as well as the experimental anthology ‘Adventures in Form‘ (Penned in the Margins, 2012). He has reviewed for the The North, Sphinx and PN Review.  

Paul Stephenson’s debut collection was published by Carcanet in June 2023.

Check out his website here.

And you can follow him on X here and Instagram here.

Grace talks to prize-winning poet Mark Fiddes about the Spanish Civil War, beauty and the power of transaltion to save us. You can listen to the episode here. 

Mark’s poems have been published by Poetry Review, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, MAGMA, Shearsman Magazine, The New European, The North, Stand, Southword, POEM International, The Moth and many more. He's on X(Twitter) here and Instagram here. This is the link for his website.

His second collection Other Saints Are Available was launched by Live Canon in May, 2022.

He is a winner of the Oxford Brookes University International Prize and the Ruskin Prize. He was a runner-up in the UK National Poetry Competition, the Bridport Prize, the Moth Prize, The Stephen Spender Translation Prize and the Robert Graves Prize with commendations in over fifty other competitions, including the Montreal International Prize. In Ireland, he has won the Westival International Poetry Competition and the Dromineer Festival Prize.

Born in Northamptonshire of Scottish descent, he studied Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford University before working in Washington, D.C. as a journalist. He now travels between London, Dubai and Barcelona as a creative director and writer. He speaks Spanish and has recently been translating the work of Catalan poet Miquel Martí i Pol.

Calla Smith and Grace talk about navigating new countries, languages and relationships. You can also listen to Calla's perspective on using imagination as a tool for redefining our environments. Listen to the episode here. 

Calla Smith lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When not writing, she  enjoys continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she  has come to call home.  She has published a collection of flash fiction  “What Doesn’t Kill You”, and her work can also be found in several  literary journals. 

 Calla is on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.