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The Poedcast
by Shanice
A reading of all your favourite classic poems. A gathering of all the dark, and poetic, and melancholy.
Episodes
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Modise Sekgothe & Rabindranath Tagore
"Though blasphemous and wayward with my word. Though heretic and heathen at my worst. Still I am drenched in the blood." - Modise Sekgothe🕸️
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Faswillah Nattabi & Kahlil Gibran
"A subtle seduction, singing, soothsaying..." - Faswillah Nattabi🕸️
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Jonathan Lefenya & Wilfred Owen
"The cloth that seals society's decay is folded neatly in the backbone of its collapse." - Jonathan Lefenya🕸️
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Yamoria & Quaz Roodt
"Our hair is tomorrow resting it's back on the gust of history." - Yamoria🕸️
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Nomashenge Dlamini & Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
"The beast saunters on to naught, looting faith from my marrow." - Nomashenge Dlamini 🕸️
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Dshamilja Roshani & Noor Hindi
"If I must die, you must live to tell my story." - Dr Refaat Alareer🕸️
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Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death..." - John Keats 🕸️
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Mangala Mangala & Tupac Shakur (In Memory Of Lesedi Nice)
"Lesedi setšwamele sa legodimo o belegwe ga re ga ma ya monyama." - Mangala Mangala, 🕸️
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Torsten Clear Rybka & Upile Chisala
"I think Adam is the apple that Eve fell prey too." - Torsten Clear Rybka🕸️
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Tory Saint & William Butler Yeats
"Only those that love deeply can hate righteously. Your anger is intimate." - Tory Saint 🕸️
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Faswillah Nattabi & John Keats
"Carve waistbeads onto your belly, and at the hour of labour do handstands on the wall..." - Faswillah Nattabi🕸️
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Xabiso Vili & William Carlos Williams
"We are coming for everything, and our mothers too." - Xabiso Vili🕸️
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The Neo Zulu & Belita Andre
"Would witness of your anguish bring me peace? Would it be enough?" - Belita Andre🕸
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Myesha Jenkins & Phillippa Yaa & Makhosazana Xaba & Lebogang Masango
"My blood so safe. Breathing my people. Knowing my power." - Myesha Jenkins🕸️
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Modise Sekgothe & Chris Van Wyk
"They splash into the lake of blue fire to burn away the toxins. They slash into the haunting past to redeem self of old sins." - Modise Sekgothe 🕸️
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Solly Ramatswi & Anthony Anaxagorou
"They are still wanderers though, just heavier with barely any blood and just fragments of what remains of their souls..." - Solly Ramatswi 🕸️
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Lyriq (Tumelo Mtimkhulu) & Derek Walcott
"Our hearts beat in motion sickness. A red rocking back and forth inside. We spend our time looking for another to match the shade and rhythm of our nausea." - Lyriq (Tumelo Mtimkhulu) 🕸️
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Hope Netshivhambe & Edgar Allan Poe
"Like we are not whole unless we are wounded. Like we are not abstract unless we are missing." - Hope Netshivhambe🕸️
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Jonathan Lefenya & Lord Byron
"I speak pain fluently." - Jonathan Lefenya🕸️
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Quentyn Island & Sappho
"Then from that reeking sewer of my life I might haul up a bucket of spring water." - Sappho🕸️
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James Baldwin & Belita Andre & Masai Sepuru & Hope Netshivhambe
"..murder masquerading as salvation, seducing every democratic eye, the mouths of truth and anguish choked with cotton." - James Baldwin🕸️
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Dshamilja Roshani & Oki Sogumi
"The shrinking sun sinks in your teacup, and you take a sip of the red horizon. You smell a silent storm arising." - Dshamilja Roshani🕸️
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Tory Saint & Sibusiso Simelane
"You hardly say what you mean. You hold your tongue like somebody else's luggage." - Tory Saint 🕸️
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Fumane Ntlhabane & Toni Morrison
"Dusting the voices of all your lost lovers from the hollow in your palm lines." - Fumane Ntlhabane 🕸️
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Masai Sepuru & Wystan Hugh Auden
"...return to the sea, resurface the boat that we sank, sail through floating bodies that weren't as lucky as me. Do you think that I'm lucky?" - Masai Sepuru🕸️
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Nkosinathi Ntini & Sara Teasdale
"The enemy will sometimes wear your face." - Nkosinathi Ntini🕸️
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Mfumo Ntlhabane & Lebogang Mashile
"You have become a paper thing. Loose skin cannot know so much drowning." - Mfumo Ntlhabane🕸️
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Anga Mamfanya & Robert Frost
"But nothing lasts longer than the wait, the pause, the sound of chewing on dense air." - Anga Mamfanya🕸️
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Percy Shelley & Belita Andre
"Oh, if you could bottle up the control of madness, call it rhythm." - Belita
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William Yeats & Felix Kobina
"It cannot be holy work, what we do. It feels too good and hurts too good as well." - Felix
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Tory Saint, Movement
Tory Saint reading a piece I wrote in tribute to Hozier's Movement.🕸️
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Divine Right Of Kings
Quite literally a minute of this beautiful piece of classic art.
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Blood Of My Blood (Sliver 1)
A tribute to the legend that is the Yiling Patriarch, Wei Ying, in a reading of an old story.
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Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee
The tragic love story of Annabel Lee as written by the indelible Edgar Allen Poe. A love poem for the ages.🕸️
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The Catarcold (Sliver)
A sliver of a fairytale titled the Catarcold. A story of a boy who was lost long before he was lost.🕸️
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Helen And The Lord
The Good Life as written by Belita Andre follows a reading of She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron. A street recording of the old that lingers and the new that stays.🕸
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Lord Byron
Darkness by Lord Byron is both a terrifying dream and a shaking prophecy. 🕸️
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The Song Of Achilles, (Sliver 1)
A sliver of the entrancing Greek Epic by Madeline Miller. Essentially, one of the most beautiful books ever written. 🕸️
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Charles Bukowski
The Poedcast has the honour of hosting a guest in Quentyn Island of the Island as he reads us one of his favourite pieces.🕸️
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An introduction to the Poedcast: Edgar Allen Poe
The father of melancholy himself, Edgar Allen Poe, in five minutes. 🌑
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Poedcast have?
The Poedcast currently has 40 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Poedcast about?
A reading of all your favourite classic poems. A gathering of all the dark, and poetic, and melancholy.
How often does The Poedcast release new episodes?
The Poedcast has 40 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to The Poedcast?
You can listen to The Poedcast on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts The Poedcast?
The Poedcast is created and hosted by Shanice.
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