A celebration of the words that shape the world.
Poetry meets politics as we misappropriate Christina Rosetti’s “Shut Out” in honour of the UK election (underway as this episode goes live).
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A celebration of the sonnet form, featuring a catch-22 resolved in the first English sonnet sequence, by Anne Locke, two works by Charlotte Smith, and the sonnet that accompanies The Statue of Liberty – The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus.
There is a certain frurgle
whose contempules I abhor—
but although my stronders gurgle
by his whorkling am I zor
This episode is brought to you with a light spattering of paint, a lungful of fumes, and two nonsense poems that I should have but didn’t have memorised: Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter.
Episode 8 is up… Early?!
An eclectic mix of Stealth Poems™ drawn from my recent reads. Works by Byron, Poe, Blake, Stephen King, Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Wordsworth, and Robert Pirsig.*
* Yes, all men, must be residue from Shakespeare’s sausage-fest last episode.
We get down and uncomfortably dirty with the Bard this episode, in pursuit of ambiguity and insight with William Blake’s The Tyger, Shakespeare’s Sonnets 130 and 135, and Christina Rossetti’s ‘No, Thank You, John’.