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SIM Ep 942 Chops 287: Len Pennie’s Poyums

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Performance poet Len Pennie is a big deal on the social media, particularly TikTok, where her Scots Word of the Day videos, forthright, urgent poetry and wicked sense of humour have made her a bona fide star. Published by Canongate on February 22, her debut poetry collection, Poyums, she covers a lot of ground, from depression and mental health to misogyny and abusive relationships. If that all sounds bleak, well, the topics are, but Len’s honesty, rawness, humour and playfulness of language make her poems anything but.  She chatted to our Mick about all of the above, the joy and importance of Scots language, and the problem with “nice guys”.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Standard issue for all women.

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for all women.

0:10.0

Hello there you Smusher. Standard Issue for all women.

0:13.0

Hello there you Smasher and welcome to this week's Sunday chops.

0:17.0

Mickey here and this week I had the pleasure of nattering Poet, Len Penny.

0:23.0

I first started following Len on the social media,

0:26.0

to be precise, what was then Twitter,

0:28.0

where she's got a big following,

0:30.0

although not as big as her Tik-Toc audience

0:32.0

where she's a bona fide star, but I just can't. I just can't.

0:35.8

Anyway, I started following her for her Scott's Word of the Day videos, which remain a delight and an education.

0:42.4

Big recommend. And so I was chuffed to which remain a delight and an education.

0:42.7

Big recommend.

0:44.0

And so I was chuffed to hear she had a bug coming out.

0:46.7

Her debut poetry collection, Poyums, is out on February the 22nd, which, if you're listening

0:52.4

to this fresh out of the box is this coming

0:55.6

Thursday I am definitely still butchering that title by the way even though Len kindly

1:01.3

explained it's po like Edgar Allen and Yum like that was tasty.

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My apologies to all our Scottish listeners.

1:07.4

Luckily, Len's very good at saying it.

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Obviously.

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Len's poems cover a lot of ground from depression and mental health. Obviously. But Len's honesty, humor and playfulness with language make the poetry anything but...

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