The Poetaster: Recent Episodes
Andrew Smith
Ever wanted to find out a bit more about poetry but didn't know where to begin? Ever wanted to be able to talk about a poem without actually having to study it? Host Andrew Smith provides tasting notes to some of his favourite poems and talks about how they work, and why they're worth reading.
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Do museums enforce a distance from the past or bring it closer to the present? On this episode of The Poetaster, we look at 'The Owl Cup' by New Zealand poet Anna Livesey, from her 2003 collection Good Luck.
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Romanticism is all about walking through daffodils and exploring the growth of your own mind, right? Not according to Shelley. War against France got him wondering about the state of England and whether it would go the way of the Pharoahs.
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A discussion of William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey".
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Reading of William Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13 July 1798"
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We talk about two poems by Romantic poet John Clare - "The Gipsies Evening Blaze" and "The Gipsy Camp". Both sonnets discuss the same subject but in very different ways, and give a sense of how Clare himself had to tread an uncertain line as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet".
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