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The Poetaster

Ever wanted to find out a bit more about poetry but didn"t know where to begin? Ever wanted to be able to talk about a poem without actually having to study it? Hosts Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Tim McKenzie provide tasting notes to some of their favourite poems and talk about how they work, and why they"re worth reading. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:25

Carol Ann Duffy, "Letters from Dead Men"

The Poetaster ·

2025/11/06

How do we hope we'll be remembered after we're dead? Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy imagines the sorts of requests the living might receive from the dead, poking a bit of fun at the expectations, pretensions and delusions of dead men in particular.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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13:05

Seamus Heaney, "The Turnip Snedder"

The Poetaster ·

2025/10/30

What on earth is a turnip snedder? Tim and Andrew debate this and other questions in their discussion of this poem from Nobel Prize-winning poet, Seamus Heaney. If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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13:01

Wilfred Owen, "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"

The Poetaster ·

2025/10/23

Tim continues to feel belligerent, and gets a bit biblical with Wilfred Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young". Some people interpret the story of Abraham and Isaac as one of redemption and grace. But not Owen . . .If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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13:40

Wisława Szymborska, The End and the Beginning

The Poetaster ·

2025/10/16

Tim is in a belligerent mood and introduces Andrew to a poem by Polish Nobel-Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. As well as discussing the aftermath of war, Tim and Andrew discuss how poetry in translation works - what stays constant and what you might lose (or gain) by reading poetry in a different language to that in which it was composed.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast

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26:09

ST Coleridge, Frost at Midnight

The Poetaster ·

2025/09/25

"Frost at Midnight" is one of Coleridge's most well-known poems, and a fantastic example of what has come to be known as the Greater Romantic Lyric. Tim and Andrew discuss Coleridge's attitudes to the natural world, to childhood, and to the imagination - and how the French Revolution inspired poets in this period to imagine a new world.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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17:53

RS Thomas, Sea Watching

The Poetaster ·

2025/09/18

Tim shares his love for barren, windswept, bleak bird watching in this discussion of R. S. Thomas's poem 'Sea Watching'. Is there music in this scalpel-like poem? How and where do you find God? And why is the poem laid out in funny ways? Listen to find out.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:19

Edward Thomas, As the Team's Head Brass

The Poetaster ·

2025/09/14

Best known as a World War One poet, Edward Thomas also wrote some beautiful descriptions of English rural life. In "As the Team's Head Brass", he brings these two subjects together and wonders about how war affects those left behind.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:56

Sylvia Plath, Poppies in July

The Poetaster ·

2025/09/04

Sylvia Plath is one of the great American poets of the twentieth-century, as famous as much for her personal life as for her poetry. But how far should you allow our knowledge of her biography to influence how we read her poetry? Tim and Andrew think about this as they discuss "Poppies in July".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:56

Peter Bland, Wellington

The Poetaster ·

2025/08/28

How do you find your bearings in a new place, and can you transplant cultural touchstones from one side of the world to another? Peter Bland has a go at doing just that in "Wellington".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:30

George Herbert, Love

The Poetaster ·

2025/08/21

The patron saint of country vicars, George Herbert imagines a conversation with Love as a barmaid. Tim and Andy unpack the poem (and Tim points out the naughty bits), and they discuss how the poem was once shared amongst Herbert's friends as a private, deathbed confession.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:00

Robert Sullivan, Waka 76

The Poetaster ·

2025/08/14

A bar room brawl is brewing but it's not what you might expect. In this poem, Robert Sullivan merges myth and reality, Maori and European and plots a course for New Zealand's future.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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13:47

Mary Oliver, Heavy

The Poetaster ·

2025/08/07

How do you overcome grief and loss? And what des it feel like when you do? Mary Oliver's "Heavy" tries to answer those questions, and talks about them in some beautifully controlled verse. If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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20:58

LEL, The Factory

The Poetaster ·

2025/07/31

In this episode, Tim and Andrew take a look at one of the Victorian period's most popular poets, LEL - Letitia Elizabeth Landon - and her poem, "The Factory". Bringing together moral outrage against child labour in a popular ballad form, LEL's poem comes from a time when poetry and literature in general was at the forefront of social change.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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19:10

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130

The Poetaster ·

2025/07/24

In this episode, Andrew and Tim discuss Sonnet 130, and agree it's a great option for anyone looking for a wedding reading. Along the way, they cover blazons, sonnet structure, and whether Shakespeare is all he's cracked up to be.(Opening music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/monkeys-spinning-monkeys. License code: NKEUTJBFSPQXVRGD)If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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16:49

Bill Manhire, Zoetropes

The Poetaster ·

2025/07/17

The previous few episodes have been about centre-periphery dynamics, and in this episode former New Zealand Poet Laureate and general all-round legend Bill Manhire offers his thoughts on living as a Kiwi in London. Bonus: you get to find out what a "zoetrope" is.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:49

Ursula Bethell, Mail

The Poetaster ·

2025/07/10

How do you find a place in a rich tradition of English literature stretching back centuries when you're writing in a small colony on the far side of the world? That's the dilemma faced by early twentieth-century New Zealand poet Ursula Bethell in her poem "Mail". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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19:32

John Dennison, The Garden

The Poetaster ·

2025/07/03

John Dennison's "The Garden" draws on a long history of writing about gardens, going all the way back to the first garden of them all. Tim and Andrew pontificate about this and much more, while also reminiscing about living in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:23

Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

The Poetaster ·

2025/06/27

The Reverend Dr Tim McKenzie talks Gerard Manley Hopkins, rhyme, rhythm and how to see the divine in the everyday in this discussion of one of Hopkins's most famous poems, "The Windhover". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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10:26

Anna Livesey, The Owl Cup

The Poetaster ·

2024/03/31

Do museums enforce a distance from the past or bring it closer to the present? On this episode of The Poetaster, we look at 'The Owl Cup' by New Zealand poet Anna Livesey, from her 2003 collection Good Luck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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14:56

Shelley - Ozymandias; England in 1819

The Poetaster ·

2023/11/08

Romanticism is all about walking through daffodils and exploring the growth of your own mind, right? Not according to Shelley. War against France got him wondering about the state of England and whether it would go the way of the Pharoahs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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