Roger Christofides discusses 'Neofitos Engleistos Speaks' (1953) by George Seferis, in connection with Shakespeare's play Othello. Roger is a Shakespeare scholar with a book on Othello that you can buy here - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/R-M-

Season 2, Episode 3: Callie Gardner on June Jordan and Shakespeare

Jan 16th, 2022 1h 9m

Callie was an inspirational conversationalist when this podcast started during lockdown, thanks to their unforced enthusiasm, extraordinary depth of knowledge, and consistently perceptive interpretations. In this episode you will hear them disc

Season 2, Episode 2: Mau Baiocco on Emily Critchley, Eric Langley, and Shakespeare

Jan 16th, 2022 1h 14m

Mau discusses Critchley and Langley's pamphlet These. Insuing. Sonnets (Crater Press, 2018) and Shakespeare's sonnets.

Season 2 Episode 1: Jack Belloli on R. F. Langley and Elizabeth Havers' memorial

Jan 16th, 2022 1h

Jack talks about Langley's poem 'Achilles' as found in his Complete Poems (Carcanet, 2015), alongside the memorial to Elizabeth Havers in the church of St Peter's in Stockerston (Leicestershire).

Episode Nine: J. H. Prynne's The Oval Window, All's Well that Ends Well, and Joey

Mar 19th, 2021 1h 15m

Joey and Joel get together to talk about Prynne for the second time - this time looking at a section of his book *The Oval Window* (1983), starting 'At the onset of the single life', that responds to a speech by Lavatch from act 4 scene 5 of *A

Episode Eight: U. A. Fanthorpe, Macbeth, and Leo

Mar 4th, 2021 1h 10m

Leo and Joel talk about U. A. Fanthorpe's Poem 'What, In Our House?' (from her 1995 collection *Safe as Houses*), and a section of *Macbeth*.

Episode Seven: Thom Gunn, John Donne, Ellie and Şima

Feb 19th, 2021 1h 15m

Ellie, Şima and Joel talk about Thom Gunn's poem 'The Hug' (from his 1992 collection *The Man with the Night Sweats*) and John Donne's poem 'The Ecstacy' (from some time in the early seventeenth century). You can access texts of the poems at t

Episode Six: J. H. Prynne, The Tempest, and Joey

Feb 6th, 2021 1h 8m

Joey and Joel talk about passages from Prynne's pamphlet Pearls That Were (1999) and the song 'Full Fathom Five' from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Episode Five: Sarah Howe, Philip Sidney, and Lucy

Jan 22nd, 2021 1h 2m

Lucy and Joel discuss Sarah Howe's poem 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' (from *A Loop of Jade*) and a letter from Sir Philip Sidney.

Episode Four: Zaffar Kunial, George Herbert, and Şima

Jan 10th, 2021 1h 3m

Şima and Joel discuss Zaffar Kunial's poem 'Prayer' (from his 2018 collection *Us*) and one of George Herbert's poems of the same name from 1633. Kunial's poem can be found here - https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/prayer-2/ . This is

Episode Three: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, William Shakespeare, and Callie

Dec 24th, 2020 1h 7m

Callie and Joel discuss Veronica Forrest-Thomson's poem 'Richard II' and an extract from Shakespeare's play of the same name.

Episode Two: Richard Scott, William Shakespeare, and Leo

Dec 11th, 2020 1h 15m

Leo and Joel talk about 'Public LIbrary, 1998' by Richard Scott, and Shakespeare's sonnet 20. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50425/sonnet-20-a-womans-face-with-natures-own-hand-painted

Episode One: Eavan Boland, Anne Bradstreet and Sima

Nov 27th, 2020 1h 5m

Şima and Joel talk about the Eavan Boland poem 'Becoming Anne Bradstreet' and the Anne Bradstreet Poem 'The Author to Her Book' . https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55336/becoming-anne-bradstreethttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/436

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