In this episode, Tara talks to award-winning poet and academic Dr. Erica McAlpine (https://www.ericamcalpine.com/). Erica shares poems from her latest collection Small Pointed Things, and Tara and Erica talk about a wide range of subjects including contemporary poetry and form, rhyme and comedy, and poetry and (auto)biography. They also discuss Erica’s study The Poet’s Mistake, which identifies errors in the work of poets such as John Keats. They ask why critics go to such efforts to excuse or deny poets’ errors, and wonder why we revere some poets more than others.

Creator & Host - Tara Stubbs

Recording, Editing & Producing - Rydian Cook

Funder: The British Academy