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Requisite Words Podcast
by Peter Ravlich
A celebration of the words that shape the world.
Episodes
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Episode 25 - I Love Sidney & Marlowe
We wrap up 2020 with several pieces by Sir Philip Sidney and Christopher Marlowe. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Pictures are…
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Episode 24 - Taking Thomas Hardy on Faith
After a very 2020 hiatus, we're back with two of Thomas Hardy's poems, God's Funeral and The Darkling Thrush. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)...
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Episode 23 - Shakespeare's Sonnet 127
This episode we share the first of Shakespeare's Sonnets to the Dark Lady, Sonnet 127, alongside a brief contextual reading of the piece. This episode was inspired by Patrick Stewart's A Sonnet a Day initiative, which has been a source of much delight in recent months, but overlooked this one…
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Shakespeare's better foot - The Nice Sonnets
We attempt to balance out the bawdy and bluest of the Bard with a few of his nicer Sonnets. Featuring Sonnets 17, 18, 19 and 29. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)...
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Episode 21 - How to write
This episode is for anyone who's ever stared at a blank page, waiting for the words to come. We explore one possible solution, using a walkthrough of an untitled poem I published on Twitter, in a thread started by @scotianselkie. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada |...
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Episode 20 - Shakespeare's Junk Strikes Back
By popular request, a sequel to Episode Seven. Reeling from the hit success of Sonnet 135, Shakespeare penned Sonnet 136, which continued the argument for... well, a close reading of the Bard's breeches. Not safe for work, children, or anyone who thinks the world has heard enough dick jokes....
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Episode 19 - The Limerick
This episode is for anyone who wants to spend a little time getting creative while staying at home. It’s kid-safe, although it contains farts, and acknowledges the existence of adult themes. Kia kaha, whānau. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music...
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Episode 18 - "The face of all the world is changed, I think"
Content note: A brief discussion of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Also contains a dog. Anxiety and similar conditions can be exacerbated in times of uncertainty, so future episodes during the pandemic will feature content warnings where relevant. While the poems shared may remain directly or...
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Episode 17 - You can't read that!
This episode discusses "Still I Rise," by Maya Angelou, in unpacking why you're hearing so much historical (if still relevant) poetry in these parts, and little from the diverse voices of the now. Read Still I Rise at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise Watch and listen to...
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Episode 16 - A Grecian love story
We celebrate a somewhat healthier love in this Valentine's Day episode, with Mary Shelley's "Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!" and provide some context for the Greek myth it draws on. For more on the mythology of Psyche and Eros, the following links are a good starting point:...
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Episode 15 - Stop with the murdery love already
Exploring Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" as a murder ballad that arguably... isn't. In this episode we consider another reading of the work, in which Browning's poem parodies and logically dismantles problematic tropes about love. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada |...
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Welcome to 2020?
We haven't had the most auspicious start to the new decade. This episode we share two poems that might offer, respectively, a challenge to critical awareness and a gentle exercise in empathy. Featuring "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning and "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. Episode…
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Episode 13 - Shut Out
Poetry meets politics as we misappropriate Christina Rosetti's "Shut Out" in honour of the UK election (underway as this episode goes live). Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC…
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Episode 12 - Catch-22 and Colossus, too
A celebration of the sonnet form, featuring a catch-22 resolved in the first English sonnet sequence, by Anne Locke, two works by Charlotte Smith, and the sonnet that accompanies The Statue of Liberty - The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada |...
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Episode 11 - The Walrus and the Jabberwock
There is a certain frurgle whose contempules I abhor but although my stronders gurgle by his whorkling am I zor This episode is brought to you with a light spattering of paint, a lungful of fumes, and two nonsense poems that I should have but didn't have memorised: Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and...
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Episode 10 - Of Lucy and loss
Wordsworth's Lucy Poems are a five part meditation on love in the face of grief. Among the finest Romantic works, we share the works and unpack each part of the sequence, and they way they fit together. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted…
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Episode 9 - A continuation
Continuing last episode's sampler of poems that appear and influence later and contemporaneous works, this episode includes works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley, and more Elizabeth Barrett Browning, because we can. References to xkcd.com include...
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A celebration of the words that shape the world.
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Peter Ravlich
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