In this episode of The David Watson Podcast, I sit down with award-winning poet and cultural commentator Lee Woodman for a conversation about how poetry changes the way you see the world.

We explore Lee’s remarkable life story (Paris after WWII, childhood in India, and returning to America in the early 1960s), and how a global upbringing shaped her obsession with language, sound, texture, and colour.

From Van Gogh’s sunflower yellow to the psychology of colour in different cultures, Lee breaks down how she researches, builds, and performs poems, and why poetry is less about “feelings” and more about precision, observation, and lived experience.

Lee also reads from her work, including “Provocative Pink” and a short rhyming piece “Shades of Anger,” and we talk about how colour, culture, and perception can shift what we think we’re seeing.

If you enjoy conversations about creativity, perception, art, writing, and the deeper layers of everyday life, this one is for you.

Find Lee Woodman here: poetleewoodman.com