Versify - Poetry and English Literature

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Three poems by William Wordsworth, recorded in front of a live audience. Due to some technical difficulties, all the audience interaction has been removed.

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Three poems by US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

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To celebrate Burns Night on Jan 25th, we tackle three poems by Scotland's greatest poet. We do some sketchy accents!

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We venture to Alfriston, Sussex for a live Christmas pod.

Three Christmas poems dismantled clumsily.

Festive greetings!

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A selection of poems by the esteemed Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore.

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Three Poems by John Milton.

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We get even more boggled than usual tackling three head-scratchers by American modernist Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).

Domination of Black

The Emperor of Ice Cream

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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Robert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Carlos Williams hang their Christmas stockings and get a full serving of Versify rambling. Shorter than a usual episode. It's a Christmas miracle!

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Versify record their first live podcast in the beautiful Sussex village of Alfriston, tackling the poetry of British literary titan, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).

Poems: The Voice, The Convergence of the Twain, At Castle Boterel.

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We cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth. 

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