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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Wallace Stevens
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode seven of their first series of Modern-ish Poets Mark and Seamus look to that great poet of winter and snow, Wallace Stevens, considering hi...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: A.E. Housman
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the sixth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Worcestershire lad A. E. Housman, whose imaginative po...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Stevie Smith
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the fifth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1 Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Stevie Smith, ‘an eccentric poet with a tenacious rep...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Thomas Hardy
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of Modern-ish Poets, Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Thomas Hardy, with its blend of bitterness of tenderness, its ...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Elizabeth Bishop
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For episode three of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus look at the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, the east-coast American poet who enjoye...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: W.H. Auden
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus discuss life and work of W. H. Auden, from the influence of his parents and his po...
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Philip Larkin
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For their first episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry look at the life and work of Philip Larkin, a poet written about ext...