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A Voice Like This

Great poetry should be read aloud, that"s where "A Voice Like This" comes in; a weekly show where one or two poems are read without analysis or lectures. A little space each week for 5 - 10 minutes of calm and chill. Take a little time out of your day for this aural hug with award winning voice actor Phil Rowe. New shows are posted every Monday, and keep an eye out for the odd bonus episode, too!

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09:15

Gratitude

A Voice Like This ·

2025/12/01

In this deeply personal episode, we pause to reflect on the quiet power of a life well lived — and the everyday moments that shape who we become.At the request of my niece Joanne, and in loving memory of my sister Tracy, I read The Dash — a poem that reminds us how profoundly the small choices of our days define the legacy we leave behind.To accompany it, I share Mary Oliver’s The Summer Day, a poem full of wonder, stillness, and gentle curiosity. Oliver invites us to slow down, to notice beauty in

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06:21

Small Joys

A Voice Like This ·

2025/11/24

Poems featured:“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost“The Orange” by Wendy Cope“The Laughing Heart” by Charles BukowskiIn this lighter, brighter episode of A Voice Like This, we turn our attention to the small joys -the sparks, glimmers, and brief flashes of warmth that can shift an entire day.Robert Frost offers a tiny moment of unexpected wonder.Wendy Cope celebrates the quiet delight found in something as simple as an orange.And Charles Bukowski closes with a call to embrace your own life and keep the

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06:23

Truth & Sacrifice

A Voice Like This ·

2025/11/17

This episode marks a time of remembrance.We pause to honour those who gave their lives in war — and to reflect on the truth that lies behind the words honour and glory.John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” has become almost inseparable from remembrance itself — a poem of beauty and resolve, written in the shadow of the Great War.Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” answers that call with the voice of experience, stripped of illusion, confronting the human cost behind the patriotic ideal.Together,

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07:34

Light & Time

A Voice Like This ·

2025/11/10

As autumn deepens and the light fades earlier each day, we begin to measure time in quieter ways. Light & Time brings together two voices - Shakespeare and Vaughan - who, across centuries, reflect on what it means to age, and what lies beyond the boundaries of time itself.In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare offers one of the most intimate meditations on aging ever written - not in fear, but with acceptance. He imagines himself as a fading fire, a tree stripped of its leaves, a twilight sky at rest. Yet

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04:31

Fire & Freedom

A Voice Like This ·

2025/11/03

Bonfire Night — the spark of rebellion, and the quiet wonder that follows.Every November, the night sky in Britain crackles with memory; a celebration of rebellion and the light that follows it. Fire & Freedom explores both sides of that spark: the defiant blaze of revolution, and the quiet wonder of beauty born from fire.We begin with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy, a thunderous call to awaken, written in response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Shelley’s words rise like

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07:24

Strange Company

A Voice Like This ·

2025/10/27

This Halloween season, A Voice Like This takes a seat by the fire — and invites in two unquiet guests. From the rhythmic unease of a ghost that isn’t there, to a love so still it defies life itself, this special episode explores the shadowed edge of the human mind — where affection becomes obsession, and absence feels almost alive.Featuring readings of:“Antigonish” by Hughes Mearns“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning🎧 A Halloween special — best listened to after dark.

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06:55

Memory & Time

A Voice Like This ·

2025/10/20

In this episode, Phil Rowe explores two timeless reflections on the passage of life — Dylan Thomas’s nostalgic “Fern Hill” and Robert Herrick’s carpe diem classic “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.”Thomas’s lyrical remembrance of childhood radiates joy and innocence — until time itself steps forward, gently reclaiming that golden youth. Herrick’s poem, written three centuries earlier, looks in the opposite direction, urging us to seize the day before it slips away.Together, they form a perfect

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05:16

Fears and Fire

A Voice Like This ·

2025/10/13

Episode 15: Fears and FirePoems: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be — John Keats & Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night — Dylan ThomasThere’s a shadow that walks beside us all — the quiet reminder that our time is finite. Some poets choose to face that truth with trembling hands; others meet it with clenched fists and flame in their hearts.In this episode, Fears and Fire, two voices speak across the centuries.John Keats, the doomed Romantic, writes of life’s unfinished

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06:59

Grit & Grace

A Voice Like This ·

2025/10/06

Some poems are written in fire — words that refuse to bow,even in the darkest of moments. Others remind us that life isn’t just aboutendurance, but about pausing, noticing, and letting stillness in.In this episode of A Voice Like This, I read twopoems that seem to stand at opposite ends of the spectrum, yet together find aperfect balance.Strength and stillness. Grit and grace. Perhaps the art ofliving is knowing when we need each.📖 Poems featured:“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley “Leisure” by W

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06:59

Rhythm and Rhyme

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/29

Not every poem has to be serious. Sometimes, it’s enough for the words to rattle, bounce, and carry us along for the ride.In this episode of A Voice Like This, I start with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Windy Nights — a short, stormy gallop through the dark. Then we turn to Edward Lear’s The Jumblies, where nonsense reigns and adventure begins with the simple idea of sailing off in a sieve.There’s a joy in poems like these: they don’t try to explain themselves, and maybe that’s the point. They just

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05:05

The Shape Of Love

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/22

Podcast: A Voice Like ThisHosted by Phil RoweIn this episode, Phil explores two very different – but equally powerful – expressions of love in poetry. From Shakespeare’s immortalised summer’s day to Carol Ann Duffy’s brutally honest onion, we discover how love can be idealised, subverted, celebrated… and sliced open.These poems remind us that love isn’t just a feeling — it’s a form, a voice, and sometimes a sharp edge in the dark.Featured Poems:Sonnet 18 by William ShakespeareValentine by Carol Ann

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00:33

Coming Up - The Shape Of Love

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/19

Two poems, two very different takes on what love looks and feels like.From Shakespeare’s immortal “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” to Carol Ann Duffy’s onion-wrapped metaphor in Valentine, this episode unwraps the poetic layers of romance, tenderness, and truth.Whether you’re a lover, a cynic, or somewhere in between, this one’s for you.

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05:14

Where We Go When We Go

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/15

In this episode, Phil Rowe explores two quiet yet profound reflections on death — and what it means to those left behind.We begin with Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson, a poem that invites us to consider death not as something to fear, but as a calm and curious companion. Then we move to Song (When I am dead, my dearest) by Christina Rossetti, whose measured tenderness offers us a different kind of comfort — and a gentle release from grief.Both poems speak with the hush of still

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06:22

What We Leave Behind

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/08

In this episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe reads three powerful reflections on transience, legacy, and loss. Together, they explore the question: What truly endures when all else fades?“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley“Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent MillayWhether it’s a season, a statue, or someone dearly loved, these poems hold a mirror to the ways we remember and the traces we leave behind.📩 Got a favourite poem you’d like to hear? Let

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00:39

Coming Up - What We Leave Behind

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/05

Sometimes, it’s not the moment itself—but what follows—that lingers the longest.In the next episode of A Voice Like This, we reflect on change, memory, and the quiet traces we leave in the world around us. Three short but stirring poems guide us through the ache of farewell, the transience of pride, and the defiance of grief.🎧 Listen Monday: Episode 10 – What We Leave BehindWherever you get your podcasts.

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04:56

The House You Carry

A Voice Like This ·

2025/09/01

Episode 9 – The House You CarryTwo poems exploring the quiet refuge we carry within.Featuring:Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare – a listener requestThe Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. YeatsA reminder that love, stillness, and self-worth can be found not in far-off places, but deep within us.New episodes every Monday.

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06:18

The Weight and the Way

A Voice Like This ·

2025/08/25

In this episode, Phil Rowe brings together two powerful poems that speak to the burden and beauty of being human.One poem is beloved. The other, more quietly known.One, fierce with instruction. The other, still with truth.Together, they offer a reflection on how we carry ourselves through the world — and what we pass on.Join Phil as he explores the unspoken tension between advice and acceptance, striving and surrender.—Poems:If by Rudyard KiplingShoulders by Naomi Shihab NyePerformed by: Phil

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04:28

Names in the Margins

A Voice Like This ·

2025/08/18

In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others.First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of.Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft or Sullen Art reflects on the solitary work of the poet — creating not for recognition, but for love, for mystery, and for the unnamed listener.Two quiet poems. Two enduring acts of

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00:33

Coming Up - Names In The Margins

A Voice Like This ·

2025/08/15

In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others.First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of.Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft or Sullen Art reflects on the solitary work of the poet — creating not for recognition, but for love, for mystery, and for the unnamed listener.Two quiet poems. Two enduring acts of care.

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04:38

The Quiet and the Wild

A Voice Like This ·

2025/08/11

This week, two very different worlds unfold.Wendell Berry offers stillness — a moment away from the noise, where the natural world holds us gently.Then Yeats pulls us back into chaos — his apocalyptic vision of a world unravelled, where the centre cannot hold.New episodes every Monday, each just a few minutes — just the poems, spoken with care.Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you getyour podcasts.If a line lingers, share it — or let me know on avoicelikethis@gmail.com

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