It's with great sadness that I have to convey to you news of the death of the fine English poet Adrian Mitchell. Adrian was also my friend and collaborator and much celebrated in these program...
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As is appropriate for November, our theme is the supernatural ... living on the edge between life and death, the presence of death in life and of life in death.
Celebrating Halloween, we...
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Autumn is perhaps a good time to think about losing things ...
We have Elizabeth Bishop on the art of losing, Edna St Vincent Millay, E J Scovell and the British Poet Laureate And...
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A wide international selection of poets this month - from South America: a Colombian living in the US, an Ecuadoran and two from Chile including the great Neruda. Two each from Can...
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As summer begins to wane, we observe its passing with Emily Dickinson and Edward Arlington Robinson, and comment on the gradual fading of human relationships with a number of poets new to the progra...
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Celebrate Summer with Poem for Today!
We have summer poems from across the world, interspersed, as always, by meditations on the human condition.
Sadly, my attempt at sympathetic magic -...
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June's poems group themselves around the theme of living with suffering.
The theorist Theodor Adorno famously said that to write a poem after Auschwitz was barbaric. We discuss this thou...
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May's programs are shaped around the theme of faith.
Robert Browning's great diatribe The Lost Leader (May 8) bemoans the loss of faith in a cause, while Jenny Jospeh's The Road from Glastonbu...
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We continue our theme of story poems this month with engrossing tales from Muriel Spark, Czeslaw Milosz, Maurice Riordan, Seamus Heaney and John Keats.
Newcomers to the program include Mimi Kh...
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Welcome to the month of Spring!
As well as celebrating Spring - with A E Housman, Robert Frost, Salvatore Quasimodo. e e cummings and John Burnside - we also celebrate Lady Day with Denise Lev...
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