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What a ride this week! made a brilliant friend on this podcast & looking forward to hearing how her poetical journey unfolds - her new book 'Hagstone' is a thing of beauty, we hear a few of her poems in this episode!

Georgina Wilding was crowned Nottingham\\u2019s first Young Poet Laureate 2017 \\u2013 2019, and went on to accept the prestigious role of Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival until early 2021. In 2015 she set up the poetry publishing house, Mud Press, and in the same year graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class degree in Creative and Professional Writing.

She spent the first five years of her career writing and performing as a member of the poetry collective \\u2018The Mouthy Poets\\u2019 and has gone on to perform her work both nationally and internationally. Georgina has featured at events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, International Poetry Day:Granada, Sofar Sounds, Bright Spark, Hit the Ode, Straatstheatre Braunschweig and Off Milosz festival in Poland. As well as this, she has been commissioned by organisations such as The Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio Nottingham to write and perform, and has been invited to teach poetry for programmes such as the City Arts Refugee Forum collaboration, First Story, the National Literacy Trust, and Redhill Academy's specialisms week.