The Long and Short
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen's short stories
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of the Long and Short, we turn to Elizabeth Bowen, widely considered one of the finest writers of the short story. Mark and Seamu...
The Long and Short: Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The eleventh episode of the Long and Short brings us to the present day and the distant past, as we turn to two multivocal, monumental poems by Alice ...
Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the tenth episode of the series, Seamus and Mark turn to two figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nella Larsen’s Passing is a taut, tense and tartl...
Ted Hughes’s ‘Gaudete’
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Originally conceived as a film script, Gaudete is Ted Hughes’s apocalyptic vision of an English village in the throes of pagan forces. While it may ...
James Joyce's ‘Dubliners’
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Joyce wrote most of the short stories in his landmark collection, Dubliners, when he was still in his 20s, but a tortuous publishing history, ...
Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus and Mark step into the counterculture with two long poems, ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’, by Allen Ginsberg, a Beat poet-celebrity with a utopia...
D.H. Lawrence's short stories
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Controversial, compulsive, and overwhelmingly charismatic, D.H. Lawrence continues to exert an undeniable magnetism through his novels and poetry. But...
Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In their fifth episode, Mark and Seamus reach their first 20th century poet of the series, the Ohio-born, New York-loving ad man Hart Crane, and his ...
Katherine Mansfield's short stories
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode four, we turn to the squarely modernist Katherine Mansfield, whose writing famously attracted the envy of Virginia Woolf. Mark and Seamus ...
Henry James’s short stories
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The third episode turns to the short stories of Henry James, looking in particular at ‘The Aspern Papers’ which, like Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, off...
Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of the series, Mark and Seamus turn to ‘Song of Myself’, for Mark 'one of the most exciting things literature has to offer'....
Tennyson's 'Maud'
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Ford and Seamus Perry start their series, The Long and Short, with Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, a weird and disturbing poem about obsession that Ten...
Introducing The Long and Short
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford introduce their series on long poems and short stories from the 19th and 20th centuries, and talk about some of the ideas w...