I stumbled on <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/j-d-mcclatchy">J.D. McClatchy’s</a> <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52492/late-night-ode">Late Night Ode</a> very much by chance, but now it feels essential to me. It turns out it’s a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Horatian-ode">Horatian ode</a> about getting older and letting go (or attempting to).
Show notes
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/book-4-ode-1-venus">Horace IV i.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlS_Vbip_Q">W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJBxie9Dlw">Alice Oswald reads from Memorial</a></li>
<li><a href="http://simonarmitage.typepad.com/homepage/2006/06/homers_odyssey.html">Homer’s Odyssey</a> by Simon Armitage</li>
</ul>

I stumbled on J.D. McClatchy’s Late Night Ode very much by chance, but now it feels essential to me. It turns out it’s a Horatian ode about getting older and letting go (or attempting to). Show notes Horace IV i. W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats Alice Oswald reads from Memorial Homer’s Odyssey by Simon Armitage

I stumbled on <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/j-d-mcclatchy" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.D. McClatchy’s</a> <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52492/late-night-ode" rel="noopener noreferrer">Late Night Ode</a>&nbsp;very much by chance, but now it feels essential to me. It turns out it’s a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Horatian-ode" rel="noopener noreferrer">Horatian ode</a>&nbsp;about getting older and letting go (or attempting to).
Show notes
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/book-4-ode-1-venus" rel="noopener noreferrer">Horace IV i.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlS_Vbip_Q" rel="noopener noreferrer">W.H. Auden reads In Memory of W.B. Yeats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJBxie9Dlw" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alice Oswald reads from Memorial</a></li>
<li><a href="http://simonarmitage.typepad.com/homepage/2006/06/homers_odyssey.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Homer’s Odyssey</a> by Simon Armitage</li>
</ul>

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