Poetry isn't always high profile, but we encounter more of it than we might realise. From The Silence of the Lambs, to The Dark Tower, to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, poetry often seeps into other genres, where it can inhabit the reader's mind long after the prose has escaped.

In this episode I share a few poems hidden away in other works - strongly biased towards books I've read recently or within sight of my desk.

Includes poems by Tolkien, Byron, Blake, Wordsworth, and Poe.

Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Image: Photo by Peter Ravlich, various book covers represented under Fair Use.