The Poetaster

The previous few episodes have been about centre-periphery dynamics, and in this episode former New Zealand Poet Laureate and general all-round legend Bill Manhire offers his thoughts on living as a Kiwi in London. Bonus: you get to find out what a "zoetrope" is.

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How do you find a place in a rich tradition of English literature stretching back centuries when you're writing in a small colony on the far side of the world? That's the dilemma faced by early twentieth-century New Zealand poet Ursula Bethell in her poem "Mail".

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John Dennison's "The Garden" draws on a long history of writing about gardens, going all the way back to the first garden of them all. Tim and Andrew pontificate about this and much more, while also reminiscing about living in London.

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The Reverend Dr Tim McKenzie and the Irreverend Dr Andrew Smith talk Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, rhyme, rhythm and how to see the divine in the everyday in this discussion of one of Hopkins's most famous poems, "The Windhover".

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Do museums enforce a distance from the past or bring it closer to the present? On this episode of The Poetaster, we look at 'The Owl Cup' by New Zealand poet Anna Livesey, from her 2003 collection Good Luck.

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Romanticism is all about walking through daffodils and exploring the growth of your own mind, right? Not according to Shelley. War against France got him wondering about the state of England and whether it would go the way of the Pharoahs.

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A discussion of William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey".

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Reading of William Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13 July 1798"

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We talk about two poems by Romantic poet John Clare - "The Gipsies Evening Blaze" and "The Gipsy Camp". Both sonnets discuss the same subject but in very different ways, and give a sense of how Clare himself had to tread an uncertain line as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet".

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