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We haven’t had the most auspicious start to the new decade. This episode we share two poems that might offer, respectively, a challenge to critical awareness and a gentle exercise in empathy.

Featuring “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.

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Image reproduced from “Poems by Wilfred Owen,” 1920, sourced from wikimedia.org and in the public domain.

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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Photo: London, UK, by Sid Ali from Pexels.com

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.