Janet Todd
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181 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Janet Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I came to poetry on the... And the equivocation that is always in her work.
But I wanted to say the one thing at the end about the theatre is really one of the tragedies of literary history is that Pepys thought he was going blind and stopped writing his diary just before Afro Ben enters the stage.
Why didn't you say that?
Well, because you didn't give me a chance to do it.
I don't want to be rude.
Do I want to be rude?
I do not.
Especially not to a man who's in such a disadvantage in being in the minority.
No, I agree.
It just seemed to me a rather nice point.
There are poems that are often written in a social space.
They're all answering each other, even things like The Disappointment, the famous one about male impotence or premature ejaculation, whichever.
That is obviously in a social setting where several others are writing poems like that.
And the whole poem leaves you thinking what at the end.
Thinking what what?
Well, who exactly has done what with whom?
What is it?
Where is the sex?
Where is it?
And is it cerebral?
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