Versify - Poetry and English Literature: Recent Episodes
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We cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth.
We blunder our way through our first ever poet in translation with predictably confused results. Our victim this time is revered Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).
Poems:
Evening
The Panther
Archaic Torso of Apollo
We tackle one of the almighty greats of English poetry with predictably sketchy results.
'Reading King Lear', and odes on 'Melancholy' and 'A Grecian Urn' befuddle us plenty.
Poetry discussion
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice - Museums
Louis MacNeice - Alcohol
Louis MacNeice- Soap Suds
After an unacceptable delay waiting for Rob to edit this episode, it is finally available!
Three poems by American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Three oafish English guys tackle the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967).
Betjeman, Bly, Hardy - Three Christmas Poems and Seasons Greetings from the Versify Podcast.
Robert Frost -
The Tuft of Flowers;
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road;
Acquainted with the Night
High excitement on the pod as we interview actual living poet Mai Black.
Mai's book Thirty Angry Ghosts takes figures from across the world and gives their anger voice.
In this Episode, we meet Anne Boleyn; Henry VIII and the Unknown Soldier.
From Mai:
'Thirty Angry Ghosts' is the result of my year in lockdown. Someone on 'Suffolk Writers Group' Facebook challenged us all to write from the point of view of a famous person's ghost. I did Anne Boleyn and loved it, so the next day I wrote a poem in the voice of Helen of Troy. I've always loved history as well as poetry so it was the perfect project for me.
I'm so pleased with the finished book and with the response it's had so far. Next, I'm hoping to share it with local high schools as it seems a fairly natural follow-on from the popular 'Horrible Histories' series and fits in well with quite a few curriculum areas.
Currently I'm writing and researching a novel set in 18th Century London. I'm also running a variety of poetry courses on Zoom and leading writing workshops for the well-being charity 'Inside Out Community'.
Details of the book and the courses I run can be found at www.suffolkwritersgroup.com
Three poems by Sir Stephen Spender.
"Hamburg, 1929"
"An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum"
"I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great"
Departure
Recuerdo
Dirge Without Music
The pod reads and reflects on three poems by Edna St Vincent Millay
Three poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
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Three poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
I Dreaded That First Robin So
A Precious - Mouldering Pleasure 'Tis
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Three poems by the Welsh poet RS Thomas (1913-2000):
The Country Cleregy
A Welsh Testament
To A Young Poet
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A sampling of poems by the acclaimed US poet-physician William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) are tackled by the bungling co-hosts.
A selection of poems from 'Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis' and 'Serious Concerns'
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Discussion of W H Auden poems The Novelist The Fall of Rome September 1st 1939
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The Pod considers Edgar Allan Poe's Romance, The City in the Sea and The Conqueror Worm.
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The team dive in to three poems by WB Yeats.
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Discussed areSloughOn a Portrait of a Deaf ManYouth and Age on Beaulieu River HantsA Subaltern's Love Song
Two unqualified persons who have done v little research dive in to the poetry of Edward Thomas.
Me and Rob read and discuss three Ted Hughes poems: The Bear, Hawk Roosting and Meeting
This is a reading and some discussion of Shakespeare's sonnet Love Conquers All.It is also the first episode of the pod in which technical and structural issues are discussed!