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I think this might work better as a video?--Death whispersIn my ear: Live now,for I am coming. -Virgil
Brigit Pegeen Kelly reads for Wallace Stevens' poem "Poetry Is A Destructive Force" and we then discuss. Poetry Is a Destructive ForceThat's what misery is,Nothing to have at heart.It is to have or nothing.It is a thing to have,A lion,
Are there any connections to be made between Miroslav Valek's poem Killing Rabbits (read here by the American poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly), and Craig David's R&B "banger" Seven Days from the year 2000? Many. Killing RabbitsOn Sunday after bre
All we need is love. For something and/or someone.Also poetry.
Inspired by Nader, Farritor and Schilliger's recent AI-assisted decryption of ancient texts, netting them the $1m Vesuvius Challenge Prize, I attempt to crack the code of a 1000 year old Japanese poem using Google's Gemini chatbot. I pose to G
An episode inspired by Tadeusz Dąbrowski's poem "Sentence", Nick Flynn's "Tattoo" and Jack Gilbert's "The Answer":SENTENCEIt's as if you'd woken in a locked cell and found in your pocket a slip of paper, and on it a single sentence in a la
Being an Anne Carson megafan (looking forward to her new collection Wrong Norma published this month) I decided to spend an evening with an artefact she created in 2016 called Float comprising 22 chapbooks held together in whatever order you ch
An episode inspired by two Dalton Day poems: "Love Poem" and "An Understanding" (from the chapbook Overlay). All poems referenced in the episode (in order of appearance): YOU SEE I WANT A LOTYou see, I want a lot.Perhaps I want everything:
An episode inspired by two Wendell Berry poems: A MEETINGIn a dream I meetmy dead friend. She has,I know, gone long and far,and yet she is the samefor the dead are changeless.They grow no older.It is I who have changed,grown strang
An episode inspired by Noor Hindi's poem 🐳 The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song 🐳The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song & Other ConfessionsI won’t make metaphors out of fish. If I have to die, I choose the ocean.
In this episode, I explore our longing for basic trust, weaving together poetry (Pat Schneider, Rilke), philosophy (the Stoical idea of Logos, Cosmic Indifference, Animism), and psychology (Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and the developmenta
Primarily an excuse to play you Tindersticks' gorgeous "Travelling Light", but also an attempt to unravel in 15 minutes the world of referential delusions, where ordinary events assume personal significance in ways that cross the boundary betwe
Parallels drawn between Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and Byron Katie’s Loving What Is, with a nod to the Philosopher King’s son, Commodus (“a bit of a shit” - Cassio Dio, History of the Roman Empire). Also, some late Wallace Stevens, doing "
Our desire for meaningful communication with an inner or outer You in W.S. Graham's What Is The Language Using Us For, and Maureen McClane's Open Sky.OPEN SKY open sky—what you want? what you want I want for you, want whatever you want
An exploration of Rilke's poem "Du im Voraus verlorne Geliebte," ("You Who Never Arrived"), alongside Leon Russell's "A Song for You," and Martin Buber's book I and Thou, delving into themes of elusive love, the intricacies of human conne
I love it when a plan comes together, don't you?This is the final episode of my personal Cannabis Koan, giving thanks to three people who were instrumental in helping me redefine and recalibrate my relationship with The Green One.--Marijuana
Three dumb clichés about addiction. All personally verified by yours truly.
Do you want to hear the happiest bass-line ever recorded? Here you go!--KINDNESSBefore you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,wha
My last relationship - rescripted as a Romantic Comedy. --TODAYIf ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breezethat it made you want to throwopen all the windows in the houseand unlatch the door to
Vienna, 1884. A young man, highly intelligent, profoundly ambitious, but also nervy and anxious in character is stressing out about his life and prospects. He is something of a fearful over-thinker, which is to say an Enneagram Six in personali
"Hey Siri, other than buying weed from scallywags in my local park, what other avenues might you suggest I try in order to purchase this psychoactive dried plant matter?"Enter stage left: Harrow School of Weed.--ROOKIEYou thought you could
So let’s say you’re a middle-aged man seeking to “get into” cannabis, but not living in a country where it’s available to buy legally, and no friends or acquaintance who use the substance anymore, what strategies for acquiring the drug might yo
Why do we habitually use mind-altering substances and strategies in ways that are not always healthy? Here's a very simple explanation which holds in some way (I believe) for all of us. Cannabis, and non-cannabis users alike.--THE DOORGo an
What might the essence of Rilke’s Egoic soul reveal to us, if we tried to put it into words, using all our knowledge of the poems transmitted through an Ich, Rilke’s Ich (aka Ego), over many years, as well as the letters, and notebooks, and bio
The highs and lows of teenage dirtbag Arthur Rimbaud.--SENSATIONSThrough blue summer nights I will pass along paths,Pricked by wheat, trampling short grass:Dreaming, I will feel coolness underfoot,Will let breezes bathe my bare head.Not
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