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- 22. Archangel: "I Breathed In The Angel And The Words Came To Me". Helen Wing's Own Poetry with Alegria
Helen always asks her guests to read a poem that means a lot to them, and this week, Alegria flipped the switch by asking Helen to read her own poems from her book Archangel.
This special episode is the last of this season. We deeply thank all of you who have listened, and we will return in the New Year!
This week they discuss:- Feminism, and Sexual Freedom
- Identity Politics
- Catholicism
- The Vitality Writing Provides Helen
- Archangel by Helen Wing
Discover poetry through the heart of another…- Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
- Receive our newsletter!
- The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com50 min - 21. "The Netherlands' Favourite Poem!" Nelleke reads Hendrik Marsman's ‘Memories of Holland’
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Nelleke about a Dutch poem called ‘Memories of Holland’ by Hendrik Marsman.
They discuss:- Immigrants staying in touch with their cultural heritage, or not
- Will Dutch survive as a language?
- Are the British incurious about other cultures?
- Marsman's tragic tale
- The best Dutch poem of the 20th century
- The Dutch experience of WW2
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
- Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
- Receive our newsletter!
- The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com18 min - 20. Lily Reads ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Lily about ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot.
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
- Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
- Receive our newsletter!
- The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com11 min - 19. "The KGB Could Have Got Me For Reading This Poem". Growing Up In The Soviet Union (with artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova)
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Varvara Keidan Shavrova about a poem called ‘An autumn evening in the modest square’ by the Russian poet, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
They discuss:- Growing up in the Soviet Union
- The difficulty of being a migrant living away from your original home
- Families hiding their intellectualism from the state and their peers in the Soviet Union
- Vavara’s parent’s special way they brought her up in Soviet Russia
- Timelessness, Eternity, Space and Time
- Joseph Brodsky
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
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The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com28 min - 18. "Tyrants and Bullies Will Ultimately Be Grounded". Tim Butcher reads ‘Ozymandias‘ by Shelley
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Tim Butcher about ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
They discuss:- Tyrants of the world and bullies in normal life
- How Shelley wrote the poem
- Tim Butcher gives his takes on the lines that speak to him the most.
- The power of poetry and how "some refrains come back to you".
- Tyrants' attitudes (and all of our attitudes) towards mortality in life
- Hubris
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
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The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com25 min - 17. “We Were Best Friends For 40 Years”. Rod Dedicates An Irish Blessing To Markie
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Rod about an Irish Blessing, ‘May the road rise to meet you’.
Discover poetry through the heart of another…Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
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The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com11 min - Voicenote 4. ‘I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders’ by Lucian Blaga
‘I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders’ by Lucian Blaga is read by Andreea and the music is composed by Tom Platts.
Scroll down or search the whole episode to hear why the poem means so much to Andreea: 7. "This Poem Is The Way I See The World!" - Andreea
Discover poetry through the heart of another…Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
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The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com2 min - 16. Sitting With Your Emotions: "Each Has Been Sent as a Guide From Beyond" (with Nicole)
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Nicole about a Persian poem called ‘The Guest House’ by Rumi.
They discuss:- Sitting with your emotions
- Living a richer fuller life
- Does suppressing your emotions make you sick?
- ‘Being busy’ is a way to deflect from your emotions
- Teaching emotions in schools
- Yoga: locating emotion in our body and breathing into it
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
Receive our newsletter!
The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com13 min - 15. "Say The Difficult Thing, Get The Monsters Out On The Page, & Explore Them" - Albanian Poet Amina Meshnuni
In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Amina Meshnuni about her own poem ‘Our Children’ written in Albanian and also about a poem by another Albanian poet, Mojkom Zeqo, called ‘The Mask of God’.
They discuss:- Amina's poem about her anger at the world
- The emotional importance of reading poetry from different countries
- Mojkom Zeqo
- Albania: the historical context of 'The Mask of God', and the emotionality of the language
Discover poetry through the heart of another…Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
Receive our newsletter!
The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
soundsapien.com22 min - Voicenote 3. 'Winter Swans' by Owen Sheers
'Winter Swans' by Owen Sheers is read by Donna and the musical underscore is composed by Tom Platts.
Simply scroll down to listen to the whole episode to hear why the poem means so much to Donna: 6. Winter Swans: "So Many Of Us Don't Have Someone To Rely On" - DonnaDiscover poetry through the heart of another…
Find out more about the poems on Elixir and read them here!
Receive our newsletter!
The Elixir Poetry Podcast website: https://www.helenwing.com/the-elixir-poetry-podcast
Let us know what you think of the episodes by replying to our emails or in the comments or our DMs on Instagram @elixirpoetry.podcastFree texts of the poems and extra episode info!
Support The Elixir Poetry Podcast, buy Helen a coffee buymeacoffee.com/helenwing
The Podcast is Produced by Tom Platts at Sound Sapien
All Music Composed by Tom Platts
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About The Elixir Poetry Podcast
From the publisher's feed
British poet Helen Wing has spent the past 20 years living between the UK, China and the Middle East, experiencing first-hand the human impact of poetry across borders. On The Elixir Poetry…
Podcast, she asks anonymous individuals from around the world to read the poem that has touched them the most, and to unveil why. (Each episode includes original music)