Courage Lowrance

Poetical Fragments

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The podcast of Poetical Fragments: a blog for and about poetry.

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Courage Lowrance

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'Sonnets 101-105,' by William Shakespeare (1609) 13.04.2025 5:16

This is a poetry reading from the month of April 2025.

'Sonnets 96-100,' by William Shakespeare 19.10.2024 5:49

This is a poetry reading from the month of October, 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 91-95,' by William Shakespeare (1609) 24.08.2024 6:02

This is a poetry reading from the month of August 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Do Not Go Gentle,' Dylan Thomas (1951); 'If I Could Tell You,' W.H. Auden (1940); 'At Dawn,' Courage Lowrance (2022) 07.07.2024 5:37

This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. I am posting three villanelles here, the last of which is my own. Go this link for a description of the structure of a villanelle: https://classicalpoets.org/2016/10/19/how-to-write-a-villanelle-with-examples/

'Sonnets 86-90,' by William Shakespeare (1609) 16.06.2024 6:14

This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Comus' by John Milton (1634) 29.04.2024 58:12

This is a poetry reading from the month of April, 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. Comus is a masque, written by John Milton, and performed in 1634. A masque is a kind of court play, a festive drama. So it was a little difficult to read out in this format, but hopefully it is still worth enjoying as an audio recording, since the original...

'Sonnets 81-85,' by William Shakespeare 21.04.2024 5:49

This is a poetry reading from the month of April, 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 76-80,' by William Shakespeare 31.03.2024 6:24

This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 71-75,' by William Shakespeare 03.03.2024 5:52

This is a poetry reading from the month of March 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 66-70,' by William Shakespeare 25.02.2024 6:03

This is a poetry reading from the month of February 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Annabel Lee,' 'The City in the Sea,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe 11.02.2024 16:03

This is a poetry reading from the month of February 2024. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. Three of my favorite poems by Poe :) P.S. Watch The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. These all show up in it, and it might be awesome.

'Sonnets 61-65,' by William Shakespeare 10.12.2023 6:23

This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 56-60,' by William Shakespeare 03.12.2023 6:28

This is a poetry reading from the month of December 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 51-55,' by William Shakespeare 04.11.2023 6:31

This is a poetry reading from the month of November 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. Sonnet 55 is one of my favorites.

'Sonnets 46-50,' by William Shakespeare 23.10.2023 5:59

This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 41-45,' by William Shakespeare 07.10.2023 6:05

This is a poetry reading from the month of October 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'The Pearl,' 'Affliction,' and 'Time,' by George Herbert (17th century) 20.08.2023 6:31

This is a poetry reading from the month of August 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Sonnets 36-40,' by William Shakespeare 29.07.2023 5:53

This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. The fortieth is one my absolute favorites. More of those coming up...

'Sonnets 31-35,' by William Shakespeare 15.07.2023 5:55

This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'Natural Theology,' by Rudyard Kipling 02.07.2023 4:06

This is a poetry reading from the month of July 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' by Langston Hughes (1921); 'Laws for Creations' (1867), and 'Kosmos' (1860), by Walt Whitman 17.06.2023 5:02

This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. I've read Hughes' poem before on this feed, but I wanted to combine it with material from Whitman this time around. I'd like to focus more on reading American poets, if not now, then in the near future.

'Ode to a Nightingale,' by John Keats (1820) 10.06.2023 6:31

This is a poetry reading from the month of June 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. By the poet Keats, a somber reflection on the beauty of a bird and its song.

'Landscapes,' by T.S. Eliot 20.05.2023 4:51

This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more.

'To Nature,' (1836); 'On a Cataract,' (1844); 'Homesick,' (1800): by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 13.05.2023 4:15

This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. A selection of various poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

'Unnamed Poem' by W.H. Auden (September 1939) 08.05.2023 4:07

This is a poetry reading from the month of May 2023. If you enjoy what you hear, please go over to www.poeticalfragments.com to read more. An unnamed poem by Auden from the month in which the Second World War began, though I can't see a connection within this coincidence.