Obsessions: Arlo Parks On What The Beat Generation Taught Her
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the INCREDIBLE Arlo Parks. The London based singer-songwriter, and one of our personal fave artists of 2020, is talking to us all about The Beat Generation. From discovering their poetry at aged fifteen, to what the work taught her about her own craft, why we need to smash misconceptions around who poetry is for, and much more. Arlo will also be telling us how she sees subculture and collectivism in the modern age, why poetry isn't just for exam-board reading lists, and why the art form is due its next big pop-culture moment.
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ione. Hi, Olivia, and hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Iione and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of polyester. And I'm Olivia, the co-host, producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions the next. This week it's the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire about something they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. And next week is the |
| 0:40.9 | Sleepover Club where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations. You usually have a sleepover |
| 0:45.0 | with your girlmates. And next week we have a special sleepover club to look forward to. |
| 0:49.9 | Oh yeah, we do. We will not tell you any details yet, but you are going to scream as a new collectively, the listeners, not you, Olivia, although maybe you're still as well. |
| 1:04.3 | So before we get started on obsessions, I would just like to encourage everyone to please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:12.2 | If you enjoy the podcast, it really helps us with the algorithm and stuff, and we would love |
| 1:17.6 | to hear from you. |
| 1:18.6 | Amazing. |
| 1:19.7 | And obsession, obsession episodes. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm not in this obsession. |
| 1:24.8 | Oh yeah, Olivia fucking, what's the word, abandoned me. |
| 1:31.0 | Olivia's peak finishing a dissertation, so... |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah, I think you asked an explanation, Olivia. |
| 1:39.0 | I just couldn't make it. |
| 1:42.5 | That's it, this is the simple truth. And it's annoying because, well, actually, it is annoying because I really wanted to do it because I love all those work and I loved the topic. But it was also just really great to edit something that I, I don't know if I've ever edited an interview that I've not. In fact, with you, I never have edited you, I've not been there. |
| 2:04.2 | So to make up for your absence, what's your obsession this week? |
| 2:05.4 | Well, Christmas. |
| 2:08.0 | I don't want to be too cliche, but it just is. |
| 2:08.8 | It's Christmas. |
| 2:09.9 | What's Christmas? |
| 2:11.1 | Christmas. |
| 2:12.9 | I've been saying Christmas. |
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