Versify - Poetry and English Literature

Send us a text A selection of poems by the esteemed Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore. Email: poetrypodcats@gmail.com

Send us a text Three Poems by John Milton.

Send us a text We get even more boggled than usual tackling three head-scratchers by American modernist Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Domination of Black The Emperor of Ice Cream 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Send us a text Robert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Carlos Williams hang their Christmas stockings and get a full serving of Versify rambling. Shorter than a usual episode. It's a Christmas miracle!

Send us a text Versify record their first live podcast in the beautiful Sussex village of Alfriston, tackling the poetry of British literary titan, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Poems: The Voice, The Convergence of the Twain, At Castle Boterel.

Send us a text We cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth.

Send us a text We blunder our way through our first ever poet in translation with predictably confused results. Our victim this time is revered Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Poems: Evening The Panther Archaic Torso of Apollo

Send us a text We discuss the life and poetry of Maya Angelou (1928-2014).

Send us a text We tackle one of the almighty greats of English poetry with predictably sketchy results. 'Reading King Lear', and odes on 'Melancholy' and 'A Grecian Urn' befuddle us plenty.

Send us a text A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023 Poetry e e cummings James Merrill Henry Longfellow

Send us a text Poetry discussion Louis MacNeice Louis MacNeice - Museums Louis MacNeice - Alcohol Louis MacNeice- Soap Suds

Send us a text After an unacceptable delay waiting for Rob to edit this episode, it is finally available! Three poems by American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Send us a text Three poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Send us a text Three oafish English guys tackle the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967).

Send us a text Three poems by the former poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

Send us a text Betjeman, Bly, Hardy - Three Christmas Poems and Seasons Greetings from the Versify Podcast.

Send us a text Philip Larkin. The North Ship; Mr Bleaney; The Explosion.

Send us a text Robert Frost - The Tuft of Flowers; On a Tree Fallen Across the Road; Acquainted with the Night

Send us a text High excitement on the pod as we interview actual living poet Mai Black. Mai's book Thirty Angry Ghosts takes figures from across the world and gives their anger voice. In this Episode, we meet Anne Boleyn; Henry VIII and the Unknown Soldier. From Mai: 'Thirty Angry Ghosts' is the result of my year in lockdown. Someone on 'Suffolk Writers Group' Facebook challenged us all to write from the point of view of a famous person's ghost. I did Anne Boleyn and loved it, so...

Send us a text Three of Shakespeare's sonnets get dusted off and stared at for a bit.