The Two-Way Poetry Podcast

Stephen Sawyer on Jorie Graham's poem 'Time Frame' and his own poem 'What We Did Know We Had or Running Thin'

Meg Gripton-Cooper on Anne Carson's poem 'Short Talk on Hedonism' and her own poem 'Excavating the House of Love'

Part Two: Brian Lewis on his memoir 'Last Collection' alongside Chris Jones on his book of poems Little Piece of Harm

Brian Lewis on his memoir 'Last Collection' alongside Chris Jones on his book of poems Little Piece of Harm

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana on Kimiko Hahn's poem 'Compass' and her own poem "Madam Gout'

Cliff Forshaw on Arthur Rimbaud, both in translation and as an influence on his own book-length sequence RE:VERB

Helen Angell on T S Eliot's poem 'Preludes' and on her own poem 'Mancunian Way'

Geraldine Monk on Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo' and her own poem 'Chattox Sings'

Al McClimens on Simon Armitage's poem 'Evening' and his own poem 'Grand National'

Matt Black on Edward Lear's poem 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' and his own poem 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and the Turtles of Fun'

Vicky Morris on Hannah Lowe's poem 'Fist', Georgie Woodhead's poem 'When my Uncle Stood at the Top of the Office Block Roof’, and her own poem ‘Sea Road’

Steve Ely on Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and poems from his own sequence ‘The Battle of Brunanburh’ and his poem ‘Filth as thou art’ from his collection Eely

Abbi Flint on Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's poem 'Little Peach' and her own poem 'Cow Low Bowl (650 - 700 AD)'

David Swann on Tony Hoagland's poem 'The Neglected Art of Description' and his own poem 'The Last Day of Summer'

Robert Hamberger on John Clare's poem 'The Field Mouse's Nest' and his own poem 'Herb Robert'

David Harmer on Dylan Thomas's 'Poem in October' and his own poetry sequence 'White Peak Histories'

Katharine Towers on Elizabeth Bishop's poems 'Sandpiper' and 'Jerónimo's House' and her own poem 'Elizabeth Bishop's Sad Epitaph'

Mark Pullinger on Shinkichi Takahashi's poem 'Sparrow in Winter' and his own work 'Magus' and 'Untitled'

Fay Musselwhite on David Jones's book-length poem In Parenthesis and her own sequence Memoir of a Working River

Lydia Allison on Tom Phillips' A Humument and on her own Metro Erasure Poems

Elizabeth Holloway on Sharon Olds' poem 'The Blue Dress' and her own poem 'Blue Dress'

Angelina D'Roza on Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy (translated from Sophocles) and her own poem 'Correspondences: The Credence of Birds'

Matt Clegg on ’Back Home Again Chant’ by T’ao Ch’ien (translated by David Hinton) and his own poem ’Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome’

Pete Green on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal and on their own poem Sheffield Almanac

James Caruth on Anne Stevenson’s ”North Sea off Carnoustie” and his own poem ”Coast Road, North Antrim”

Pam Thompson on James Schuyler’s ’Hymn to Life’ and her own poem ’An Afternoon’

Suzannah Evans on James Tate’s ’Making the Best of the Holidays’ and her own poem ’A Course in Miracles’

Rob Hindle on William Blake’s ’The Sick Rose’ and his own poem ’The Sick Rose’

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