Preston's Poetry Podcast

17. Ekphrastic Poems - "Cloud Study" by (and featuring!) Donald Platt


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We've got a very special episode today by living poet Dr. Donald Platt (Purdue Univ.). We'll be discussing Ekphrastic poems, which are poems written about a work of art. Today's poem, called Cloud Study after John Constable's 1820s Study of Clouds, will be read by the poet himself!


You can purchase Platt's Swansdown from the publisher, Grid Books here!


Audio and Poem used by Author's permission.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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