Donna Ashworth on how words can encapsulate feelings, life’s new chapters and the changing poetry landscape
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We've got a bonus midweek episode today with a brand new guest, as we welcome the woman who captured the feeling of the pandemic better than anyone and has gone on to become the UK's best-selling poet of the last two years.
After losing her family business, Donna Ashworth turned to what had always been a hobby and began sharing her poetry online. It captured the feelings of worry and isolation so many were feeling with the likes of Pink, James Corden and Khloé Kardashian sharing her words. She joins Kate to talk about how her online followers encouraged her to self-publish her work and how she went on to become a Sunday Times bestseller. They also talk about feelings of loss, challenges surrounding mental health and where we can all look for little moments of inspiration.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:05.0 | There were much bigger guns than me. |
| 0:09.0 | Putting your words out to their audiences. |
| 0:11.0 | Chloe Kardashian, Tony Kaleh. |
| 0:14.0 | Man, pink! |
| 0:15.0 | Yes. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, I know that was a knife. |
| 0:18.0 | Most people will say they don't consider themselves to enjoy poetry or read it when actually they are they're reading |
| 0:26.0 | it all the time and they're often writing it without realizing it as well. |
| 0:30.5 | You have already made me pride on her. Sorry. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guest three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And this is a brand-week mini episode which sees us not delving into vintage chats from the |
| 0:54.8 | White wine question time sailor but instead is bringing you a guess that I |
| 0:58.2 | discovered online who's subsequently gone on to become well the UK's |
| 1:02.1 | best-selling poet for the last two years. |
| 1:05.0 | One of us saw her words in an Instagram post as we were plunged into the first lockdown, |
| 1:10.0 | her poem, History will remember when the world stopped, seemed to say and capture everything |
| 1:15.7 | I was feeling and yet struggling to articulate. |
| 1:18.4 | And I wasn't the only one. |
| 1:19.7 | The post went viral and turned writing and poetry from a hobby into a career as a published |
| 1:25.8 | author for her. During lockdown having just moved back to Scotland where she was |
| 1:29.9 | born and raised with her husband Robert and their two teenage sons, they found themselves |
| 1:34.2 | unemployed their business forced to shut. |
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