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Om podden
Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production.
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Mona Van Duyn
1 januari 2025 |
53 min
Frank is very moved by what the poet, Mona Van Duyn, can do with an eraser. The poem referenced is ‘The Creation’ by Mona Van Duyn.
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Craig Raine
25 december 2024 |
57 min
Frank and the poet, Craig Raine, explore a disused botanical garden. The poems referenced are ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’, ‘Listen With Mother’ and ‘The Old Botanical Gardens’ by Craig Raine.
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Wislawa Szymborska
18 december 2024 |
53 min
Frank and the poet, Wislawa Szymborska, discover how many people actually like poetry. The poems referenced are ‘Plato, or Why’ and ‘Some Like Poetry’ by Wislawa Szymborska.
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Seamus Heaney
11 december 2024 |
48 min
Frank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenced are ‘Personal Helicon’ from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘Limbo’ by Seamus Heaney.
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Ruth Padel
4 december 2024 |
52 min
A poem by Ruth Padel results in Frank staring, for 15 minutes, at an embroidery of an elephant. The poem referenced is ‘Mary’s Elephant, Elizabeth’s Spinet’ from ‘The Soho Leopard’ by Ruth Padel.
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Frank O'Hara
27 november 2024 |
64 min
Frank is more than slightly besotted with ‘Lunch Poems’ by Frank O'Hara. The poems referenced are ‘Personal Poem’ and ‘The Day Lady Died’ by Frank O’Hara.
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Rebecca Hawkes
20 november 2024 |
49 min
Frank gets very excited about the Rebecca Hawkes collection, ‘Meat Lovers’. The poems referenced are ‘After The Blizzard I Followed My Mother’ and ‘Pony Club Summer Camp’ by Rebecca Hawkes.
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Dylan Thomas
13 november 2024 |
57 min
Frank spends the night in Dylan Thomas' bedroom. The poems referenced are ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ and ‘A Refusal To Morn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London’ by Dylan Thomas.
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Martin Bell
28 februari 2024 |
48 min
Frank loves a hard-drinking, hard-smoking Polytechnic lecturer like Martin Bell, especially when he is offering poetic praise to Groucho Marx. The poems referenced are ‘Ode to Groucho’ by Martin Bell and ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats.
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Jo Shapcott
21 februari 2024 |
59 min
Jo Shapcott sends Frank, an enthusiastic tree-hugger, into a sap-soaked frenzy. The collection referenced is ‘Of Mutability’. The poems referenced are ‘I Go Inside The Tree’, ‘My Oak’ and ‘Cypress’.
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Sasha Dugdale
14 februari 2024 |
39 min
Frank stands in awe as Sasha Dugdale sends a frighteningly honest Valentine’s message. The collection referenced is ‘Joy’ by Sasha Dugdale. The poems referenced are ‘Joy’ and ‘Valentine’s’.
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AE Housman
7 februari 2024 |
53 min
Frank is alarmed by AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
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Jessica Traynor
31 januari 2024 |
46 min
The Irish poet, Jessica Traynor, explores one of Frank’s favourite subjects – ageing performers who don’t know when to quit. The collection referenced is ‘Pit Lullabies’ by Jessica Traynor. The cycle of poems referenced is ‘An Island Sings’. The poems referenced are ‘The Parent’s Song’, ‘Song of the Insomniac’ and ‘Nureyev in Dublin’.
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Billy Collins
24 januari 2024 |
49 min
American poet, Billy Collins, makes Frank question the whole Poetry Podcast experience. The poems referenced are ‘Introduction to Poetry’ and ‘American Sonnet’ by Billy Collins.
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Sappho
17 januari 2024 |
41 min
Frank trembles at the fragmented beauty of Sappho, the superstar poet of Ancient Greece. The fragment translations are by Aaron Poochigian.
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T.S. Eliot
10 januari 2024 |
63 min
Frank explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Nuff said.
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Series 9 Trailer
8 januari 2024 |
2 min
Series 9 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 10th January. See you there!
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Elizabeth Bishop
20 september 2023 |
59 min
Is it a man? Is it a moth? Frank has a strange night out with Elizabeth Bishop. The poem referenced is 'The Man-Moth'.
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Geoffrey Hill
13 september 2023 |
52 min
Frank indulges his obsession with the Anglo Saxons as he reads Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns.
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Robert Browning
6 september 2023 |
56 min
Did he or didn't he? Frank investigates Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'. The other poem referenced is 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning.
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Jean Sprackland
30 augusti 2023 |
49 min
Nature gets horny and reflective. Frank is excited about the poetry of Jean Sprackland. The collection referenced is 'Green Noise'. The poem referenced is 'April' and the sequence referenced is 'The Lost Villages'.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
23 augusti 2023 |
58 min
Frank examines statues and statutes with Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poems referenced are 'England in 1918' and 'Ozymandias'. The essay referenced is 'A Defense of Poetry'.
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Sylvia Plath
16 augusti 2023 |
44 min
Frank howls at the moon with Sylvia Plath. The poems referenced are 'The Moon and the Yew Tree' and 'Ariel. TW: mentions of suicide.
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Don Paterson
9 augusti 2023 |
50 min
Frank celebrates the razor-sharp poetic mind of Don Paterson. The poem referenced is 'Rain'.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2 augusti 2023 |
45 min
Elizabeth Barrett Browning shows Frank that it's hard to be a mother and a poet and a revolutionary. The poem referenced is 'Mother and Poet'.
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Series 8 Trailer
26 juli 2023 |
2 min
Series 8 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming very soon...
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Alans at War
10 maj 2023 |
46 min
This week, Frank discovers two very different war poets, Alan Ross and Alan Seeger. The poems referenced are ‘Mess Deck’ by Alan Ross and ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death’ by Alan Seeger.
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Charlotte Mew
3 maj 2023 |
47 min
This week, Frank explains why the poet, Charlotte Mew, should, in his opinion, be a household name. The poems referenced are ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ and ‘Sea Love’.
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Sinéad Morrisey
26 april 2023 |
51 min
This week, Frank screams the praises of Sinéad Morrissey’s Beatlemania poems. The book referenced is ‘On Balance’. The poems referenced are ‘The Millihelen’ and ‘Perfume’.
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Thomas Hardy
19 april 2023 |
46 min
This week: Thomas Hardy’s poetry, featuring love, death and men that look like holly bushes. The poems referenced are ‘Exeunt Omnes’, ‘A Light Snow-Fall After Frost’ and ‘A Countenance’.
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Selima Hill
12 april 2023 |
37 min
This week, Frank enters the funny but unsettling world of Selima Hill. The collection referenced is ‘Men Who Feed Pigeons’.
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John Keats
5 april 2023 |
51 min
This week, John Keats talks to pottery. The poem referenced is ‘Ode on A Grecian Urn’.
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John Masefield
29 mars 2023 |
41 min
This week, we look at a John Masefield poem from 1911, in which a naked drunk runs through a town at midnight, threatening firefighters with their own hose-nozzles. The poems referenced are ‘Sea-Fever’, ‘The Everlasting Mercy’, ‘Dauber’ and ‘Partridges’.
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Kay Ryan
22 mars 2023 |
40 min
This week: why do so many of us stagger through life leaving a trail of chaos and confusion? American poet, Kay Ryan, reveals it’s because we are carrying an invisible ladder. The poems referenced are ‘We’re Building the Ship As We Sail It’, ‘Carrying A Ladder’ and ‘Blandeur’.
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Richard Wilbur
15 mars 2023 |
48 min
This week, American poet, Richard Wilbur, explains why stones aren’t very ambitious. The poems referenced are ‘A Dubious Night’ and ‘Two Voices in A Meadow’.
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Ada Limón
8 mars 2023 |
38 min
This week, American Poet Laureate, Ada Limón heads for the safe haven of the parental raincoat. The poems referenced are ‘The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual’, ‘The Raincoat’ and ‘Before’.
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Ted Hughes
1 mars 2023 |
48 min
This week, Ted Hughes shows us that writing a poem is like a stinking fox walking across a snow-covered field. The poem referenced are ‘The Thought Fox’ and ‘The Jaguar’.
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Simon Armitage
22 februari 2023 |
40 min
This week, our Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, writes a brilliant poem about what some might think is an unlikely subject. The poem referenced is ‘The Patriarchs – An Elegy’.
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Carol Ann Duffy
15 februari 2023 |
35 min
This week, Carol Ann Duffy considers the profound, prayer-like quality of the Shipping Forecast. The poems referenced are ‘Death of a Teacher’ and ‘Prayer’.
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John Betjeman
8 februari 2023 |
46 min
This week, John Betjeman gets a tennis-based humiliation from the girl of his dreams. The poem referenced is ‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’.
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Series 6 Trailer
2 februari 2023 |
2 min
Series 6 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 8th February. See you there!
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
6 juli 2022 |
37 min
At last, our first jousting poet - Frank meets Sir Thomas Wyatt, head-on. The poems referenced are They Flee From Me and Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
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Emily Dickinson
29 juni 2022 |
44 min
Frank went on holiday with Emily Dickinson and came back in love with her poetry. The poems referenced are ‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’, ‘One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted’ and ‘A Wind That Rose’ by Emily Dickinson.
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Clare Pollard
22 juni 2022 |
45 min
Vampires and mermaids - Frank falls under the spell of Clare Pollard’s fabulous poetry. The collection referenced is Changeling by Clare Pollard and the individual poems referenced are Zennor and Whitby.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
15 juni 2022 |
39 min
Frank meets Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott and finds out why Camelot is a bit of a lottery. The poems referenced are The Charge Of The Light Brigade and The Lady Of Shalott both by Tennyson.
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Leontia Flynn
8 juni 2022 |
37 min
Drunken nights and floppy discs - Frank gets excited about the poetry of Leontia Flynn. The collection referenced is Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn and the individual poems referenced are Anecdote and The Floppy Disk.
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The Mersey Sound
1 juni 2022 |
38 min
Frank explains why the first poetry book he ever bought, The Mersey Sound, changed his life forever. The poems referenced are Without You and The New ‘Our Times’ by Adrian Henri, Where Are You Now, Batman, Party Piece and After Breakfast by Brian Patten, and On Picnics, Café Portraits and Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough.
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Series 5 Trailer
30 maj 2022 |
2 min
Series 5 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming very soon...
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Robert Hayden
2 mars 2022 |
32 min
Frank shares a cold, sad Sunday morning with Robert Hayden. The poems referenced are Those Winter Sundays and The Whipping by Robert Hayden.
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Michael Symmons Roberts
23 februari 2022 |
32 min
Frank explores the poetic treasure-trove that is Michael Symmons Roberts’ collection, Drysalter. The poems referenced are Face to Face, Through a Glass Darkly and Discoverers by Michael Symmons Roberts.
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Wordsworth Revisited: The Leech-Gatherer
16 februari 2022 |
32 min
Wordsworth revisited: the leech-gatherer. The poem referenced is Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth.
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Nick Laird
9 februari 2022 |
46 min
Frank loves Nick Laird’s poetry. And manual typewriters. The collection referenced is On Purpose by Nick Laird and the poem referenced is The Underwood No. 4.
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Walt Whitman
2 februari 2022 |
41 min
Frank loves Walt Whitman, right down to his comfortable shoes… The poems referenced are Poets to Come, To You, Song of the Universal and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.
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Jen Hadfield
26 januari 2022 |
52 min
Frank heads North with the amazing Jen Hadfield. The collection referenced is The Stone Age by Jen Hadfield. The individual poems referenced are Hardanger Fiddle & Nyckelharpa, (Lighthouse) and (Erratic) by Jen Hadfield.
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John Milton
19 januari 2022 |
48 min
Batman, Captain America and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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Caroline Bird
12 januari 2022 |
38 min
Frank celebrates Caroline Bird and wonders if he should have saved this one for Valentine’s Day. The collection referenced is The Air Year by Caroline Bird. The individual poems discussed are Temporary Vows and I Am Not a Falconer, both by Caroline Bird.
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Series 4 Trailer
10 januari 2022 |
2 min
Series 4 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming soon...
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WH Auden
7 juli 2021 |
46 min
Frank meets WH Auden in an art gallery and falls in love all over again.
Poems referenced:
Musée des Beaux Arts - WH Auden
Funeral Blues - WH Auden
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Ellen Hinsey
30 juni 2021 |
34 min
Frank finds out when the Illegal Age began, with Ellen Hinsey.
Please note this podcast has some disturbing content.
Poem referenced:
The Illegal Age - Ellen Hinsey
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Matthew Arnold
23 juni 2021 |
39 min
Frank spends a dark night on Dover Beach with Matthew Arnold and, hold on, isn’t that Sophocles over there?
Poems referenced:
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse - Matthew Arnold
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Tracy K Smith
16 juni 2021 |
41 min
Frank reads Tracy K Smith and finally gets his priorities right.
Collections referenced:
Wade in the Water - Tracy K Smith
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Poems referenced:
Political Poem – Tracy K Smith
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Peter Riley
9 juni 2021 |
31 min
Frank hits the high notes with Peter Riley and accidentally arrives at his favourite-ever definition of poetry.
Collection referenced:
Passing Measures – Peter Riley
Poems referenced:
The Little Watercolour at Sligo – Peter Riley
Do It Again – Peter Riley
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Denise Levertov
2 juni 2021 |
37 min
Frank explores the wonders and horrors of city-life, with Denise Levertov and two dogs of disproportionate size.
Poems referenced:
The Rainwalkers by Denise Levertov
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
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Robert Frost
26 maj 2021 |
42 min
Frank celebrates one of his all-time favourite poems: The Star-Splitter by Robert Frost.
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Ella Frears
19 maj 2021 |
37 min
Frank discovers Ella Frears at a motorway services and shares some intimate notes.
Collection referenced:
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears
Poems referenced:
Midpoint by Ella Frears
The Film by Ella Frears
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Alexander Pope
2 november 2020 |
64 min
Couplets, cruelty and the occasional caning. Frank enters the poetical world of Alexander Pope.
Poems Referenced
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope
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Rita Dove
26 oktober 2020 |
38 min
Rita Dove teaches Frank the art of poetry and how to pull.
Poems Referenced:
Ars Poetica - Rita Dove
Flirtation - Rita Dove
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William Wordsworth
19 oktober 2020 |
35 min
Frank walks the untrodden ways with William Wordsworth.
Poems Referenced:
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - William Wordsworth
Spring – Alexander Pope
The Tables Turned – William Wordsworth
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known – William Wordsworth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – William Wordsworth
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower – William Wordsworth
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Tadeusz Dabrowski
12 oktober 2020 |
36 min
Never mind the poetry, here’s the white bits. Frank has a wild night out with the Polish poet, Tadeusz Dabrowski.
Poems Referenced:
I Believe All Round the Clock - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Soiree - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Bunny Slope - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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Cathy Park Hong
5 oktober 2020 |
37 min
Frank has always had a fascination with the Wild West. In this episode he explores the macabre Western ballads of Cathy Park Hong.
This podcast contains some disturbing images.
Poems Referenced:
Abecedarian Western - Cathy Park Hong
Ballad in I – Cathy Park Hong
The Song of Katydids – Cathy Park Hong
From ‘Fort Ballads’
Ballad of the Range – Cathy Park Hong
Ballad of Fort Mann – Cathy Park Hong
Ballad of Grace – Cathy Park Hong
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Liz Berry
28 september 2020 |
32 min
Frank begins series 2 with a poem that made him cry in a hotel room.
Poems Referenced:
Bird – Liz Berry
Birmingham Roller – Liz Berry
The Sea of Talk – Liz Berry
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Series 2 Trailer
21 september 2020 |
3 min
Series 2 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming soon...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
25 maj 2020 |
34 min
In the last of the series, Frank showers in the word-waterfall that is the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Caroline Knox
18 maj 2020 |
33 min
Frank is often attracted to a poem by its title. This week he discusses 'Famous Bigshots' by Caroline Knox.
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Philip Larkin
11 maj 2020 |
41 min
Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack.
Poems referenced:
Philip Larkin – Wild Oats
Philip Larkin - Dockery and Son
Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
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Donna Stonecipher
4 maj 2020 |
33 min
Frank Skinner takes us on a guided tour of Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’.
Poems Referenced:
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) - The Lay of Saint Cuthbert
From Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’:
Number 8
Number 47
Number 19
Number 14
Number 69
Number 51
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The Beat Poets
27 april 2020 |
37 min
Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly.
Poems referenced include:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During Eternity
Gregory Corso - Man About to Enter Sea
Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra
William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – He
Plus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too.
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Stevie Smith and William Carlos Williams
20 april 2020 |
33 min
Frank Skinner delves into Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', and William Carlos Williams' 'Dance Russe'. There will be no guests, just Frank exploring different poems every week.
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Trailer
15 april 2020 |
3 min
Absolute Radio presenter and comedian Frank Skinner talks about poems “like I talk about football” in his new podcast.
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