King Ink x Born Lippy (April 2025)

About this episode

The episode features a collaborative poetry event with Born Lippy, showcasing performances from various poets.

In April 2025, we hosted the first of two collaborative events with Born Lippy. Three poets from each night went head to head, and the winners...? Poetry! From Born Lippy, we had Hold Thoughts by Lydia Bruce, Back in Blyth by Tommy23, and Blackouts from the irrascible Donald Jenkins. And from King Ink, we had Entrails by Helen Rogers, Willem Dapoem by The Hellpoet, and Penelope, Bearer of Great Enmity by our very own James Whitman. Thanks to everyone who came out to make this such an electric event - the atmosphere was pure buzzing all night. Thanks to all of our featured poets, and to our hosts with the most poets packed into medium size venue I've ever seen, Pop Recs! Until next time, toodle-oo! King Ink's podcast is hosted by Helen Wilko and produced by James Whitman. ----- Facebook | Instagram | Etsy

People in this episode

Hosts: James Whitman, Helen Wilko

Guests: Lydia Bruce, Tommy23, Donald Jenkins, Helen Rogers, The Hellpoet

Topics covered

• poetry
• collaboration
• live events
• performance
• competition

Keywords

• poetry
• Born Lippy
• King Ink
• live performance
• poets
• competition
• April 2025

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Born Lippy, King Ink, Pop Recs

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• Robin Moss (March 2025) · August 21, 2025 · 13 min
• Lisette Auton (February 2025) · August 20, 2025 · 13 min
• Helen Wilko (January 2025) · August 19, 2025 · 13 min