Alex's Poetry Podcast: Recent Episodes

Alex Defroand

In each episode, I'll read a poem I like and talk about it for a bit.

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Hera Lindsay Bird (1987-)

"Dad Jokes Are Dead" from Hera Lindsay Bird (2017)

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John Cooper Clarke, "Twat", johncooperclarke.com

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Simon Armitage

"Zoom!", Zoom! (1989)

John Cooper Clarke

"Twat"

Podcast episode for oio studio's one-year anniversary.

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Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

"Love Songs In Age", from The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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Greg Sellers

"Shy Boy" in Poetry Magazine (2001)

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Simon Armitage (1963- )

"Thank You For Waiting", from Paper Aeroplanes (2017)

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

"2 Flies" from, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)

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Jane Hirshfield (1953- )

"The Heat Of Autumn" from Ten Poems For Autumn (2020)

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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

“The Moose” from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (1980)

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Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

"Happiness", Poetry Magazine (February 1985)

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Wendy Cope (1945- )

"The Orange", Serious Concerns (1993)

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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

"A Step Away From Them ", Lunch Poems (1964)

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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

"Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul ", Lunch Poems (1964)

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Caroline Bird (1986- )

"Megan Married Herself", Poetry (January 2017)

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Geoffrey Brock (1964- )

"Bryant Park At Dusk", Poetry Magazine (November 2011)

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Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

"A Litany for Survival."  from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (1978)

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

Musée des Beaux Arts from Selected Poems (1971)

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Billy Collins (1941- )

“Introduction to Poetry” from The Apple that Astonished Paris (1988)

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