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Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production.
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Frank and the poet, Wislawa Szymborska, discover how many people actually like poetry. The poems referenced are ‘Plato, or Why’ and ‘Some Like Poetry’ by Wislawa Szymborska.
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Frank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenced are ‘Personal Helicon’ from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘Limbo’ by Seamus Heaney.
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A poem by Ruth Padel results in Frank staring, for 15 minutes, at an embroidery of an elephant. The poem referenced is ‘Mary’s Elephant, Elizabeth’s Spinet’ from ‘The Soho Leopard’ by Ruth Padel.
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Frank is more than slightly besotted with ‘Lunch Poems’ by Frank O'Hara. The poems referenced are ‘Personal Poem’ and ‘The Day Lady Died’ by Frank O’Hara.
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Frank gets very excited about the Rebecca Hawkes collection, ‘Meat Lovers’. The poems referenced are ‘After The Blizzard I Followed My Mother’ and ‘Pony Club Summer Camp’ by Rebecca Hawkes.
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1Frank spends the night in Dylan Thomas' bedroom. The poems referenced are ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ and ‘A Refusal To Morn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London’ by Dylan Thomas.
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Frank loves a hard-drinking, hard-smoking Polytechnic lecturer like Martin Bell, especially when he is offering poetic praise to Groucho Marx. The poems referenced are ‘Ode to Groucho’ by Martin Bell and ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats.
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Jo Shapcott sends Frank, an enthusiastic tree-hugger, into a sap-soaked frenzy. The collection referenced is ‘Of Mutability’. The poems referenced are ‘I Go Inside The Tree’, ‘My Oak’ and ‘Cypress’.
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Frank stands in awe as Sasha Dugdale sends a frighteningly honest Valentine’s message. The collection referenced is ‘Joy’ by Sasha Dugdale. The poems referenced are ‘Joy’ and ‘Valentine’s’.
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Frank is alarmed by AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
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The Irish poet, Jessica Traynor, explores one of Frank’s favourite subjects – ageing performers who don’t know when to quit. The collection referenced is ‘Pit Lullabies’ by Jessica Traynor. The cycle of poems referenced is ‘An Island Sings’. The poems referenced are ‘The Parent’s Song’, ‘Song of the Insomniac’ and ‘Nureyev in Dublin’.
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American poet, Billy Collins, makes Frank question the whole Poetry Podcast experience. The poems referenced are ‘Introduction to Poetry’ and ‘American Sonnet’ by Billy Collins.
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Frank trembles at the fragmented beauty of Sappho, the superstar poet of Ancient Greece. The fragment translations are by Aaron Poochigian.
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Frank explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Nuff said.
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Series 9 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 10th January. See you there!
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Is it a man? Is it a moth? Frank has a strange night out with Elizabeth Bishop. The poem referenced is 'The Man-Moth'.
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Frank indulges his obsession with the Anglo Saxons as he reads Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns.
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Did he or didn't he? Frank investigates Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'. The other poem referenced is 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning.
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Nature gets horny and reflective. Frank is excited about the poetry of Jean Sprackland. The collection referenced is 'Green Noise'. The poem referenced is 'April' and the sequence referenced is 'The Lost Villages'.
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Frank examines statues and statutes with Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poems referenced are 'England in 1918' and 'Ozymandias'. The essay referenced is 'A Defense of Poetry'.
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Been waiting so long for a new episode. And finally... 🌱
I love to listen to Frank talking about Liz Berry, it's bosting 😍
Where are youuuuuu?😭
I disagree about the adding being egotistical thing, I think to perceive it as dilution is far more egotistical... "why would I wish to dilute... me?" Loving this podcast so far, as someone who, in my youth, sneered at poetry, and still now have a tiny problem with poets in general (poetry's great, but poets... ugh). Thanks for disseminating these works for us philistines
This is one of the best podcasts I've found so far. I've been dipping my toe into poetry for a while now but this is propelling me forward, to explore more. I'm not sure I'll ever get to the level of analysis and understanding that FS manages, so I just revel in the poems he chooses and explains for me. And his unadulterated joy is lovely to listen to. Trouble is, I'm about to get through the backlog of episodes and will then have to wait! Can you go daily please?! Love it.
more paper rustling please, I love it !
Excellent, I felt he was talking to me. He is engaging and he makes you want to listen and concentrate. I enjoyed it so much more than listening to interviews which, though enjoyable is a passive experience
great
Love this podcast.Thanks so much for sharing your musings Frank.
Im so pleased theres a new series. I love Franks enthusiasm and enjoyment. It just fills me with delight and it's a great introduction to some poets I havent come across before.
Brave, brilliant.
this is the second Frank Skinner poetry podcast that I have listened to. Really informative and inspiring. I like his enthusiasm for the poems and I would like to explore the Beat Poets more.
Frank Skinner has a wonderful way of bringing to life the poetry that he reads, much to do with his enthusiasm I am sure. A recent find for me, I find the choices fascinating and the commentary interesting. Long may yo continue FS.
Please frank, what happened to this week's show. Loving it. Some more please
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. The host (unfortunately we are not on first name terms and Mr Skinner didn't sound correct either) expressed his personal love of poetry in a way that made me want to further explore the poets he used for reference. I am not sure this was the aim but as the host said, referring to poems, once a work is ot there the author loses control of it and it is up to the reader to put their interpretation on to it.
Have loved every episode. Please do some more Frank
Beautifully articulated with a breathtaking summary, as all of the episodes have had in this podcast. Bringing poetry to life seems to be a natural talent for Frank Skinner.
New to me. Thanks. Will most certainly get this volume. How about a follow up with Calvino's Invisible Cities?
if I could only take one book of poetry to a desert island, it would be Larkin. This is a very enjoyable podcast and getting better.
Light touch but interesting and informative. Really enjoyed it and felt cleverer afterwards!