Not Knowing About Poetry
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Season 2, Episode 4: Roger Christofides on George Seferis and Shakespeare
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Christofides discusses 'Neofitos Engleistos Speaks' (1953) by George Seferis, in connection with Shakespeare's play Othello. Roger is a Shakespe...
Season 2, Episode 3: Callie Gardner on June Jordan and Shakespeare
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Callie was an inspirational conversationalist when this podcast started during lockdown, thanks to their unforced enthusiasm, extraordinary depth of k...
Season 2, Episode 2: Mau Baiocco on Emily Critchley, Eric Langley, and Shakespeare
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mau discusses Critchley and Langley's pamphlet These. Insuing. Sonnets (Crater Press, 2018) and Shakespeare's sonnets.
Season 2 Episode 1: Jack Belloli on R. F. Langley and Elizabeth Havers' memorial
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jack talks about Langley's poem 'Achilles' as found in his Complete Poems (Carcanet, 2015), alongside the memorial to Elizabeth Havers in the church o...
Episode Eight: U. A. Fanthorpe, Macbeth, and Leo
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leo and Joel talk about U. A. Fanthorpe's Poem 'What, In Our House?' (from her 1995 collection *Safe as Houses*), and a section of *Macbeth*.
Episode Seven: Thom Gunn, John Donne, Ellie and Şima
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie, Şima and Joel talk about Thom Gunn's poem 'The Hug' (from his 1992 collection *The Man with the Night Sweats*) and John Donne's poem 'The Ecst...
Episode Six: J. H. Prynne, The Tempest, and Joey
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joey and Joel talk about passages from Prynne's pamphlet Pearls That Were (1999) and the song 'Full Fathom Five' from Shakespeare's The Tempest. ...
Episode Five: Sarah Howe, Philip Sidney, and Lucy
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy and Joel discuss Sarah Howe's poem 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' (from *A Loop of Jade*) and a letter from Sir Philip Sidney.
Episode Four: Zaffar Kunial, George Herbert, and Şima
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Şima and Joel discuss Zaffar Kunial's poem 'Prayer' (from his 2018 collection *Us*) and one of George Herbert's poems of the same name from 1633.&nbs...
Episode Three: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, William Shakespeare, and Callie
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Callie and Joel discuss Veronica Forrest-Thomson's poem 'Richard II' and an extract from Shakespeare's play of the same name.
Episode Two: Richard Scott, William Shakespeare, and Leo
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leo and Joel talk about 'Public LIbrary, 1998' by Richard Scott, and Shakespeare's sonnet 20. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50425/sonn...
Episode One: Eavan Boland, Anne Bradstreet and Sima
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Şima and Joel talk about the Eavan Boland poem 'Becoming Anne Bradstreet' and the Anne Bradstreet Poem 'The Author to Her Book' . https://www....