Poetry, redefined

Dominic reads and explores Lermontov's stunning tour de force of a poem! A poem that honours our dear friend, Pushkin. Enjoy and please comment, share with friends, and - most importantly, follow my podcast on your chosen platform. Thank you! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Lermontov #P...

This week Dominic reads Sergei Esenin's bittersweet poem, 'Letter to a Woman'. This episode is dedicated to my Zhonushka Alyonushka! Enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artists. **** #Esenin #RussianPoetry #Poems #Moscow #StPetersburg #Russianpoets #SergeiEsenin #Poems #Weekly #np #Ritualforthedead #icons #birchstrees #b...

Dominic reads Coleridge's haunting poem, 'Love'. Enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus', from Dominic's 2021 piano album, 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved. **** #Coleridge #Poetry #Romantics #Lovepoems #Arthuriantales #Legends #Chaucer #Wales #England #Knights #Fable #Keats #Monsoonal #NP #np #Poetrypodcast #Poems #Daily #Weekly #Poetrypod #Rain #SamuelTaylorColeridge **** Introduction 00:00 Ol...

Dominic reads La Belle Dame Sans Merci , by John Keats, and explores the mystery of the misty walk with Coleridge on the Heath! Enjoy! **** Piano music is from Dominic's 2021 piano solo album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Keats #JohnKeats #Guite #Luminous #Poems #Classics #Romanticism #Romantics #Legend #Ballad #Fable #Poetry #LaBelleDameSansMerci #PoetryRe...

Hello and welcome to a new episode of The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined. This week Dominic explores a Wordsworth classic and reads both versions of the famous poem. Thanks for Jenny from Atlanta for her request! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Romantics #poetry #Wordsworth #Daffodils #She...

Dominic reads Shelley's wondrous Arethusa! Enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano solo album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved to the artist. **** Introduction: 00:00 Word of the day (brackish): 01:21 A note on the slight similarity with Yeats: 01:38 Arethusa in full: 03:34 Up Next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined: 07:53 **** #Shelley #Poet...

Dominic reads his favourite Shakespearean sonnet: no. 116! Enjoy! ** Piano music is Lazarus from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. ** #Shakespeare #Sonnets #116 #Poetry #TDT #TDTPR **** Introduction: 00:00 Word of the day (Tempest/Tempestuous): 01:56 Sonnet 116: 05:03 A few words on recommendations: 05:59 Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetr...

Dominic reads a request from Cameron Moon for Pessoa's magical 'The Keeper of Sheep' (Selections). **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano solo album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Pessoa #Existentialism #Surrealism #Poetry #Portuguese #Lisbon #np #Rilke #Pound #Poemsintranslation #Spanish #Brazilian #poetrypod #poetrypodc...

Dominic reads his favourite poet, the genius that is Yeats! Enjoy! Please follow, rate, and share the podcast. **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's piano album 'Songs for John' which was released in February 2021. All rights reserved to the artist. Bla Bla Bla....etc etc. **** #Yeats #Irishpoetry #Morepoems #Daytodaypoetry #pod #poetrypodcast #WilliamButlerYeats #Golden...

A bonus Sunday episode for you to enjoy! Dominic explores more of Heaney's stunning work. **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 album 'Songs for John'. **** Introduction: 00:00 Talk of the pod: 00:31 Word of the day (Exogamy): 03: 50 Introduction to the poem: 04:19 The poem in full: 05:05 ****

Dominic reads one his favourite writers, the mercurial Nabokov! Enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 album, Songs for John. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Nabokov #Mauve #Russianpoetry #Glory #TheGift #np #TDT #TDTPR #Poetrypodcast #Poetry #Poems #newepisode #DrDavidVernon #AdatoZembla #Blatt #Luzhin #TheLuzhinDefense **** Introduction 00:00 Word of the day (Mauve): 0...

Dominic reads Seamus Heaney's vivid poem on Sloe Gin! Enjoy! ***** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album, 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Heaney #SeamusHeaney #Irishpoetry #Ireland #NorthernIreland #poems #nature #sloes #gin #newpost #np #injustice #lesson #Faber #FaberandFaber #botanicals **** Introduction 00:00 A note on...

Dominic reads Akhmatova's stunning poem, 'In the Evening'. Enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. 2021-2025. **** #poem #daily #weekly #Akhmatova #poetry #np #Russianpoetry #WOTD #Sovietpoets #Stpetersburg #Odessa #beautifulpoems #newpost #twentiethcenturyrussianpoems #Silverage #Childrenof...

Dominic reads Spenders' beautiful tribute to Auden. Hope you enjoy! **** Piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Spender #Auden #Poetry **** Introduction: 00:00 Background on Stephen Spender: 00:31 Word of the day (Valhalla): 02:07 The Poem in full: 03:28 Further reading and recommendations: 08...

Dominic reads Shelley's 'To Night'. Hope you enjoy the poem! The word of the day is Damask. **** Music is Lazarus from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John '. All rights reserved. **** #Shelley #Romanticism #poetry #np #englishpoetry #Keats #Wordsworth #night #day **** Introduction: 00:00 Word of the day (damask): 00:22 Commentary on odes: 00:52 The poem in full: 02:11 Further reading recomm...

Dominic reads W. H. Auden's 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats ' as requested by Joe Smith.  Hope you all enjoy the poem!  **** The music is 'Lazarus', from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. ****  Introduction 00:00 Welcome to episode fifty: 00:13 Word of the day (Bourse): 01:00 Background on W. H. Auden: 01:38 The poem in f...

Dominic reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet no. 43! Hope you enjoy it! **** The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist. **** Introduction: 00:00 Word of the day (valorous): 00:19 Background of EBB: 00:37 The poem in full: 05:13 Further reading recommendations: 06:38 Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poet...

Dominic reads Lord Byron's romantic poem, 'She walks in Beauty'.  The word of the day is: Tress **** The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved. **** Introduction: 00:00 Word of the day (Tress): 00:14 Notes on the poem: 00:36 The poem in full: 03:09 Further reading recommendations: 04:35 Review of the podcast: 07:26...

Dominic reads Larkin's sardonic, witty, and luminous poem, Toads . Enjoy! **** Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John' All rights reserved to the artist. **** #Larkin #poetry #Spotifypoems #theotherLaureate #Coventry #Midlandspoetry #Hull #Dublin #Oxford #Whitsunweddings #Highwindows #np #toolsofpoetry #discoverpoetry #lovepoetry #bio #read #amre...

Dominic reads and delves into T. S. Eliot's 'Sweeney among the nightingales' Enjoy! Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John ' all rights reserved.  **** #TSEliot #eliot #modernists #crow #raven #lines #poems #poetry #agamemnon #greek #classics #poetry #mortalblow #Aeschylus  **** Chapters:  Intro: 00:00 Podcast expansion: 00:45 Word of the...

Dominic reads and explores Browning's masterful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Porphyria's Lover. Word of the day: Idoneous, meaning 'appropriate'. **** Music used is Dominic's 'Lazarus' from his 2021 piano album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved. Copyright. **** #NP #poetry #Browning #upload #Porphyria #EBB #RB #Wilde #Macbeth #Victorianpoetry #London #...

Dominic reads some Shakespeare on the Bard's birthday! Please consider commenting, rating, and sharing the podcast with likeminded friends! (0:00) Introduction (0:20) Shakespeare on the podcast (1:56) Macbeth's struggles (5:37) (Word/phrase of the day is: Walking Gentleman - A player who generally steps in to play the meagre roles in a theatre company (archaic). (6:09) More detail (6:31) M...

Blake's 'The Angel' from his collection of poems entitled: 'Songs of Experience'. Enjoy and please consider following, rating, and sharing this podcast! Word of the day: Catechumen (noun). **** Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano solo album 'Songs for John.' All rights and copyright reserved to the owner. **** #WilliamBlake #Blake #Poems #Poetry #NP...

Another Blake to feast upon! Enjoy! Word of the day: Slumberous The piano music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved. **** #WilliamBlake #Englishpoetry #Pod #NP #Easterpoetryupload #discoverpoems #Blake #Songs **** (00:00) Introduction (00:13) A stream of lengthy poems! (00:59) Some brief information regarding William Blake (01:57) Word o...

'For we did not meet in the holy night But in the shameful day.' Enjoy this epic poem! Words of the day: Rigadoon - A lively dance in duple or quadruple time Parricide - Murder of a near relative Seneschal - A steward Gyves - Shackles Demirep - A woman of doubtful reputation Caiaphas - High-Priest from the time of Christ **** Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album &...