London arts radio station Resonance FM makes programmes and artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting and its flagship Saturday show The News Agents is showcasing poetry inside its invisible gallery.

The programme commissions work from poets selected by myself as the show’s curator and founder and my co-hosting team which currently includes the journalist Alice Foster and the artist Rebecca Feiner.

With the tagline “where news meets arts” the show brings together the worlds of journalism and arts in a new, creative way.

We’re trying to do something to change the landscape and in setting tasks for performance artists, sound artists and poets, and bringing them in the studio to perform alongside established international journalists something magical happens, and quality new work emerges.

Poets and sound artists who have contributed new pieces for the show include Mark Waldron, David Briggs, Jo Thomas, Geraldine Gallavardin, Steve Moyes, Steve Layton, Daniel Lehan and Kirsten Irving.

They have appeared alongside heavyweight photojournalists, campaigners and reporters, including veteran Time magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg and Charity Action on Armed Violence policy director Iain Overton.

Unexpected collaborations have happened after broadcast, with listeners creating work. Kirsten Irving’s moody political piece on the Sochi Winter Olympics had the audio lifted from the show by a music producer and dance music artist Hans Glib who used Kirsten’s lyrics for a dance track.

Lara Pawson, the author of In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre, now longlisted for the Orwell prize, agreed to be our guest.

I was thrilled that poet David Briggs agreed to rise to my challenge to write a new piece about Angola and the news. But, although he was eager, Angola is notable for its absence from mainstream British media — a void that inspired his poem Newsworthy. Here is an extract:

… and, finally, reports just in
suggest Angola may have fallen
through an Angola-shaped hole
in the news, and with it all hope
of making its mineral wealth pay;
of raising the portion of millions
who live on less than $2 a day;
of holding to account the incumbent MPLA.

The sound artist Jo Thomas came on the show with Iain Overton, the author of Gun Baby Gun, and delivered an electric interpretation of a news story which went viral last year about pink guns being sold as gifts for girls in the US.

Using guttural, fundamental, primal sounds and an intense, staccato delivery, Jo’s performance stunned audiences in the studio and at home and even caused her to collapse in laughter before she could gather her breath and thoughts to continue her interview.

Artists and poets scheduled to appear on the show in 2015 include Chinese-born British artist Aowen Jin, whose work fuses Chinese contemporary culture and Western ideology, and the Danish journalist poet Line Hassall Thomsen.

I am determined that the show retains an international perspective: “Having worked with world news agency stories for almost 10 years, I feel this has given me the advantage to develop a more radical perspective in relation to arts, poetry and journalism that I feel evangelical about spreading through broadcast.”

I count among my supporters many journalists including Bill Neely and Jon Snow, who liked my debut collection For the Messengers, describing it as “news observed with so discerning an eye that marvellous detail emerges.”

In a time when broadcasting is changing quickly with developments in social technology, I am determined to continue my mission to challenge fundamental divisions in the media and bring together the worlds of arts and news.

• You can find out what’s coming up on The News Agents at thenewsagents.blogspot.com and listen to the show at resonancefm.com