Doomscrolling
Vanessa Kisuule searches for poems that offer insight into the issues we're all wrestling with. This week it's Doomscrolling. Can poetry help?
Vanessa Kisuule searches for poems that offer insight into the issues we're all wrestling with.
This week it's Doomscrolling - the obsessive habit of endlessly scrolling through content on our phones. We all lament it, yet very few of us can pull ourselves away. So, the question is not if it鈥檚 bad for us (we know it is), but what are we searching for on these ceaseless quests? What is happening to us while we scroll? And how might poetry offer not just a potential antidote, but a whole new language to help us get beyond simply chastising ourselves?
Can poetry make us sharper, wiser, and better equipped to change the status quo? Can it help us not just feel better, but do better?
With poetry from Vincent Toro, Franny Choi, Arji Manuelpillai, Caroline Bird and Christina Hutchins.
With help from head librarian and poet Chris McCabe, recorded at the Southbank Centre's National Poetry Library.
Produced by Ellie Richold in Bristol.
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Poems in this Episode
MicroGodSchismSong
by Vincet Toro
from Hivestruck (Penguin Random House)
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Algorithmiac
by Vincet Toro
from Hivestruck (Penguin Random House)
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The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes on
by Franny Choi
from The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes on (Harper Collins)
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I Was Just Live-Fed Two Men Knife-Fighting in Greenwich
by Arji Manuelpillai
from Improvised Explosive Device (Penned in the Margins)
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75 Steps to Achieving Willpower
by Caroline Bird
from Ambush at Still Lake (Carcanet Press)
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Practicing The Saving
by Christina Hutchins
from The Southern Review (Louisiana State University Press)
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- Tue 9 Dec 2025 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Saturday 21:30麻豆社 Radio 4