Despite the morbid title, you'll need to stop and listen to this very special episode. Part 2 comes immediately after.

We are closing Season 1 in a special collaboration with the Public Eye Club (PR and Advertising) who run the university's online student magazine, RedBeat! Poetry Club coordinators, Abigail Spencer and Anusuya Subramanian discuss Dickinson with guests Jibran Chouguley and Hashim Riyan who are both section editors for Redbeat. Jibran edits the Tourism section while Hashim edits the Opinion section of the publication.

Versology is a student led podcast from Middlesex University Dubai producing 3 episodes each month featuring students of the university's Poetry Club. Follow us on Instagram @mdxpoetry for updates and original work by our members!

Cover art by Lovell Menezes

One of Emily Dickinson's most popular poems where she writes a personified account of Death. 

Recited by Abigail Spencer and summary provided by Anusuya Subramanian. 

Life, death and everything else that comes in between. Listen to Riya D'Souza as she chats with fellow students Sameeha and Simran about Shakespeare's poem , the Seven Stages of Man.

Versology is a student led podcast from Middlesex University Dubai producing 3 episodes each month featuring students of the university's Poetry Club. Follow us on Instagram @mdxpoetry for updates and original work by our members!

Riya D'souza recites The Seven Ages of Man written by William Shakespeare with a summary provided by Simran Chandrasekaran. 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a five part poem by Stephen Coleridge. It tells the story of a seaman who shot an albatross causing misfortune to befall his ship and its crew. 

This episode is hosted by Fatimah Ahsan and she is joined by Lovell Menezes and Anisa Banu. 

Versology is a student led podcast from Middlesex University Dubai producing 3 episodes each month featuring students of the university's Poetry Club. Follow us on Instagram @mdxpoetry for updates and original work by our members!

The first poem we will discuss in this season is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part 1). Listen to the poem or read and skip ahead to Episode 1! Recited by Anisa Banu and summary by Lovell Menezes.

Welcome to Versology, new podcast from Middlesex University Dubai! We publish 3 episodes a month where we read and discuss poems under a specific theme. This month's theme is Classis Poetry.