Modern-ish Poets: Series 2
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
LIVE! T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by co...
Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, wh...
Charlotte Mew
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and...
W.B. Yeats
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish cultu...
Emily Dickinson
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity. To listen serie...
Derek Walcott
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by a...
Louis MacNeice
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the four...
Adrienne Rich
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems...
Robert Frost
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficu...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s on...