# Episode 36: Gillian Allnutt - "An exercise in truthfulness" Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episode-36-gillian-allnutt-an-exercise-in-truthfulness Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episode-36-gillian-allnutt-an-exercise-in-truthfulness.md Podcast: [The Poems We Made Along The Way](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462) Published: 2025-12-01T05:48:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way/episodes/692d0c25635c16d6402afb20 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66e5c7f558d4122cd96d65c9/e/692d0c25635c16d6402afb20/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episodes/episode-36-gillian-allnutt-an-exercise-in-truthfulness Duration seconds: 3323 ## Resource On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Gillian Allnutt about reading poems out loud during the drafting stage, writing persona poetry, and hating punctuation. Gillian Allnutt is a poet based in the northeast of England. She has published 10 collections of poetry including Nantuckert and the Angel and Lintel which were both shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 1997 and 2001 respectively. Of course, Gillian’s most recent collection Lode published by Bloodaxe has been shortlisted for this years TS Elliot prize. She won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2005 and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2010. Thank you to the T.S. Eliot Prize for facilitating this episode as part of a series of interviews with poets shortlisted for the 2025 prize. www.tseliot.com/prize/prize-year/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2025/      Books and other things Lode: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/lode-1376 Wake: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/wake-1183 How the Bicycle Shone: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/how-the-bicycle-shone-860 You can also use our affiliate link for Bookshop to find most of the books by most of the guests from the show. They are organised into lists for each series. If you use this link, we get a fraction of the money you spend: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/series-five-the-poems-we-made-along-the-way          We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well. Things I read/watched/etc in the lead up to this interview Interview on Monk Gallery mentioned in the episode: https://monk.gallery/interviews/gillian-allnutt-under-northern-skies-divinations-of-a-warrior-poet/ Gillian Allnutt Talks About Her Work: https://www.y… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episodes/episode-36-gillian-allnutt-an-exercise-in-truthfulness/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-poems-we-made-along-the-way-7032462/episode-36-gillian-allnutt-an-exercise-in-truthfulness.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.