Versify - Poetry and English Literature
Episodes
Robert Burns - A Burns Night Special
25 Jan 2026
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Send us a textTo celebrate Burns Night on Jan 25th, we tackle three poems by Scotland's greatest poet. We do some sketchy accents!Support the sho...
A LIVE Versify Xmas 2025
21 Dec 2025
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Send us a textWe venture to Alfriston, Sussex for a live Christmas pod.Three Christmas poems dismantled clumsily.Festive greetings!Support the show
Rabindranath Tagore
02 Sep 2025
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Send us a textA selection of poems by the esteemed Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore.Email: [email protected]
John Milton
14 Jun 2025
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Send us a textThree Poems by John Milton.
Wallace Stevens
24 Feb 2025
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Send us a textWe get even more boggled than usual tackling three head-scratchers by American modernist Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).Domination of Black...
A Very Merry Versify Christmas
17 Dec 2024
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Send us a textRobert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Carlos Williams hang their Christmas stockings and get a full serving of Versify rambling...
Thomas Hardy - Live in Alfriston
19 Nov 2024
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Send us a textVersify record their first live podcast in the beautiful Sussex village of Alfriston, tackling the poetry of British literary titan, Tho...
Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 02
22 May 2024
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Send us a textWe cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth.Â
Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 01
17 Apr 2024
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Send us a textWe blunder our way through our first ever poet in translation with predictably confused results. Our victim this time is revered Austria...
Maya Angelou
27 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWe discuss the life and poetry of Maya Angelou (1928-2014).
John Keats
12 Feb 2024
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Send us a textWe tackle one of the almighty greats of English poetry with predictably sketchy results.'Reading King Lear', and odes on &apos...
A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023
21 Dec 2023
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Send us a textA Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023Poetrye e cummingsJames MerrillHenry Longfellow
Louis MacNeice
15 Dec 2023
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Send us a textPoetry discussionLouis MacNeice Louis MacNeice - MuseumsLouis MacNeice - Alcohol Louis MacNeice- Soap Suds
Elizabeth Bishop
28 Sep 2023
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Send us a textAfter an unacceptable delay waiting for Rob to edit this episode, it is finally available!Three poems by American poet Elizabeth Bishop ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
30 Jun 2023
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Send us a textThree poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Langston Hughes
05 Mar 2023
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Send us a textThree oafish English guys tackle the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967).
Carol Ann Duffy
27 Jan 2023
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Send us a textThree poems by the former poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.Â
A Very Merry Versify Xmas
27 Dec 2022
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Send us a textBetjeman, Bly, Hardy - Three Christmas Poems and Seasons Greetings from the Versify Podcast.
Philip Larkin
25 Nov 2022
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Send us a textPhilip Larkin. The North Ship; Mr Bleaney; The Explosion.
Robert Frost
24 Jul 2022
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Send us a textRobert Frost -Â The Tuft of Flowers; Â On a Tree Fallen Across the Road; Â Acquainted with the Night
Mai Black
13 May 2022
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Send us a textHigh excitement on the pod as we interview actual living poet Mai Black.Mai's book Thirty Angry Ghosts takes figures from across th...
Shakespeare's Sonnets
25 Mar 2022
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Send us a textThree of Shakespeare's sonnets get dusted off and stared at for a bit.
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
29 Jan 2022
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Send us a textThree poems by Andrew Marvell go under the blurry microscope.
Stephen Spender
22 Dec 2021
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Send us a textThree poems by Sir Stephen Spender."Hamburg, 1929""An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum""I Think Continuall...
Edna St Vincent Millay
15 Aug 2021
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Send us a textDeparture  Recuerdo  Dirge Without MusicThe pod reads and reflects on three poems by Edna St Vincent Millay
Theodore Roethke
28 Jun 2021
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Send us a textThree Poems by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963).
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
17 Apr 2021
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Send us a textThree poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).email: [email protected]: @poetrypodcats
A.E. Housman
27 Feb 2021
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Send us a textThree poems by A.E. Housman (1859 – 1936).
Emily Dickinson
23 Jan 2021
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Send us a textVersify - The Poetry and English Literature PodcastThree poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)Safe in their Alabaster ChambersI Dreaded T...
RS Thomas
23 Dec 2020
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Send us a textThree poems by the Welsh poet RS Thomas (1913-2000):The Country CleregyA Welsh TestamentTo A Young [email protected]: @...
William Carlos Williams
11 Nov 2020
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Send us a textA sampling of poems by the acclaimed US poet-physician William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) are tackled by the bungling co-hosts.
Wendy Cope
29 Sep 2020
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Send us a textA selection of poems from 'Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis' and 'Serious Concerns'Apologies to anybody who downloaded...
W H Auden
30 Aug 2020
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Send us a textDiscussion of W H AudenPoems: The Novelist The Fall of Rome September 1st 1939Â [email protected]
Sylvia Plath
05 Aug 2020
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Send us a textDiscussion of Sylvia PlathMushrooms You'reCrossing the Water
Edgar Allan Poe
13 Jul 2020
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Send us a textThe Pod considers Edgar Allan Poe's Romance, The City in the Sea and The Conqueror Worm.Do email us with comments or suggestions ...
Lord Byron
16 Jun 2020
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Send us a textThe pod considers Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Darkness.
Christina Rossetti
28 May 2020
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Send us a textWe discuss three poems by Christina RossettiHeart's Chill Between'Aloof' (from The Thread of Life)In an Artist's Stu...
Seamus Heaney
10 May 2020
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Send us a textThe crew discuss three Seamus Heaney poems:Â FollowerScaffoldingBadgers
W.B. Yeats
28 Apr 2020
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Send us a textThe team dive in to three poems by WB Yeats.Second ComingSailing to ByzantiumLong Legged FlyComments/suggestions welcomed at poetrypodca...
John Donne
19 Apr 2020
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Send us a textA first encounter with three John Donne poems.ApparitionSongSt Lucie's [email protected]
Sir John Betjeman
08 Apr 2020
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Send us a textSloughOn a Portrait of a Deaf ManYouth and Age on Beaulieu River HantsA Subaltern's Love Song
Robert Graves
28 Mar 2020
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Send us a textMore of major poets being encountered by amateurs. Dead Cow FarmThe Cool WebA Childs Nightmare
Edward Thomas
02 Jan 2020
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Send us a textMore of major poets being encountered by amateurs.The Manor Farm Haymakin As the Teams Head Brass
Ted Hughes
17 Oct 2019
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Send us a textWe read and discuss three Ted Hughes poems:Â The BearHawk RoostingMeeting
Love Conquers All Shakespeare's Sonnet
13 Oct 2019
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Send us a textThis is a reading and some discussion of Shakespeare's sonnet Love Conquers All.It is also the first episode of the pod in which te...