All Episodes

Ep 89 - Sonnet 73: 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' (William Shakespeare)

Ep: 88 - The Wild Iris (Louise Glück)

Ep: 87 - A Light and Diplomatic Bird (Gwendolyn Brooks)

Ep: 86 - Miracle on St. David's Day (Gillian Clarke)

Ep: 85 - February Evening in New York (Denise Levertov)

Ep: 84 - The Grave of Keats (Oscar Wilde)

Ep: 83 - Die Schöne Nacht (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Ep: 82 - The Snow Man (Wallace Stevens)

Ep: 81 - Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)

Ep: 80 - New Year on Dartmoor (Sylvia Plath)

Ep: 79 - Mad as the Mist and Snow (William Butler Yeats)

Ep: 78 - The Christmas Special, 2025! (Longfellow, Plath, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Wordsworth!)

Ep: 77 - Live from Istanbul: December Roses (A Trio of Poems by Sara Teasdale)

Ep: 76 - Frost at Midnight (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Ep: 75 - White-Eyes (Mary Oliver)

Ep: 74 - To a Wreath of Snow (Emily Brontë)

Ep: 73 - War Poetry for Remembrance Part 3 'May, 1915' (Charlotte Mew)

Ep: 72 - War Poetry for Remembrance Part 2 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' (Wilfred Owen)

Ep: 71 - War Poetry for Remembrance Part 1 'An Irish Airman foresees his Death' (William Butler Yeats)

Ep: 70 - Autumn (Alexander Pushkin)

Ep: 69 - Bluebird (Charles Bukowski)

Ep: 68 - Sonnet 104: 'To me, fair friend, you never can be old' (William Shakespeare)

Ep: 67 - I Died for Beauty (Emily Dickinson)

Ep: 66 - After Apple-Picking (Robert Frost)

Ep: 65 - On the Death of a Poet (Mikhail Lermontov)

Ep: 64 - Letter to a Woman (Sergei Esenin)

Ep: 63 - Love (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Ep: 62 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci (John Keats)

Ep: 61 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / both versions (William Wordsworth)

Ep: 60 - Arethusa (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ep: 59 - Sonnet 116: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' (William Shakespeare)

Ep: 58 - The Keeper of Sheep (Fernando Pessoa)

Ep: 57 - Sailing to Byzantium (William Butler Yeats)

Ep: 56 - A Bonus Episode! We look at some more Heaney and his octet of sonnets: 'Clearances' (Seamus Heaney)

Ep: 55 - To Russia (Vladimir Nabokov)

Ep: 54 - Sloe Gin (Seamus Heaney)

Ep: 53 - In the Evening (Anna Akhmatova)

Ep: 52 - Auden's Funeral (Stephen Spender)

Ep: 51 - To Night (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ep: 50 - In Memory of W. B. Yeats (W. H. Auden)

Ep: 49 - Sonnet 43: How do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Ep: 48 - She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)

Ep: 47 - Toads (Philip Larkin)

Ep: 46 - Sweeney among the Nightingales (T. S. Eliot)

Ep: 45 - Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning)

Ep: 44 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Macbeth's Final Soliloquy, William Shakespeare)

Ep: 43 - The Angel (William Blake)

Ep: 42 - Introduction to Songs of Experience (William Blake)

Ep: 41 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde)

Ep: 40 - This Side of the Truth (Dylan Thomas / This episode is in loving memory of my father)

Ep: 39 - Tintern Abbey (William Wordsworth)

Ep: 38 - Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Ep 37: - (Ode) To a Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ep: 36 - Montana Pastoral (J. V. Cunningham)

Ep: 35 - The Kingfisher (Mary Oliver)

Ep: 34 - Dreamland (Lewis Carroll)

Ep: 33 - The Garden of Love (William Blake)

Ep: 32 - Finale (Pablo Neruda)

Ep: 31 - We should not mind so small a flower (Emily Dickinson)

Ep: 30 - The Echo's Rose (Shuzo Takiguchi)

Ep: 29 - No Second Troy (William Butler Yeats)

Ep: 28 - The Christmas Special! (Betjeman, Hardy, Milton, Strobel, and much much more!)

Ep: 27 - The Magi (William Butler Yeats)

Ep: 26 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Wallace Stevens)

Ep: 25 - Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ep: 24 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (John Keats)

Ep: 23 - On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (John Keats)

Ep: 22 - Rose Interior (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Ep: 21 - The Magician (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Ep: 20 - On Shakespeare. 1630 (John Milton)

Ep: 19 - Connolly's Bookshop (Bernard O'Donoghue)

Ep: 18 - Requiescat (Oscar Wilde)

Ep: 17 - Lady Lazarus (Sylvia Plath)

Ep: 16 - Not one, not two or even three, but FOUR poems! (Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandberg, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Ep: 15 - To Time (Sylvia Plath: Repost from an earlier YouTube recording)

Ep: 14 - Letter Written on a Ferry (Anne Sexton)

Ep: 13 - The Ambition Bird (Anne Sexton)

Ep: 12 - The Room of My Life (Anne Sexton)

Ep: 11 - Victoriana: A Trio of Deathly Poems (Christina Rossetti)

Ep: 10 - For my nieces (Russian Fairy Tales - The White Duck)

Ep: 9 - Tennyson on Milton, and Dominic's 'Lazarus' plays us out...(Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Ep: 8 - The Titan and The Poet: Bryon's Prometheus Part I (Lord Byron)

Ep: 7 - To Autumn (John Keats)

Ep: 6 - England in 1819 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ep: 5 - Sonnet XIII: A Quartet of Translations (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Ep: 4 - Orpheus, Eurydice, and Sonnet XIII by the mercurial Rainer Maria Rilke! (A Sunday Morning Coffee Special!)

Ep: 3 - Review of Beethoven 5 by the CBSO! (A Burns Night Special)

Ep: 2 - Wedding (Alice Oswald)

Ep: 1 - Adam's Curse (William Butler Yeats)