David Coley and Matt Hussey
The Canterbury Fails
Reading marginal, minor, and absolutely unread Old and Middle English poetry, paired with a thematically appropriate cocktail.
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Apr 3, 2026
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Episodes
Rats Away! A Middle English Charm 14.01.2023 35:50
A broken-down shattered poeticalish charm against vermin with a swingin' big city celebrity tipple.
Excommunication! Curses! Woe! 10.12.2022 40:14
A fiery blast of excommunication ritual with a literally on fire tequila citrus blowout.
The Book of Quint Essence 19.11.2022 38:24
An alchemical slog in Middle English prose matched by a neoplatonically perfect cure-all.
Lorica of Laidcenn 28.10.2022 44:03
God and his army protects every last one of your weird little body parts, while you sip a herbal smoky kick to the the triform brain (and liver).
WPHP Monthly Mercury x Canterbury Fails: MONKS !!! 15.10.2022 1:03:06
A late medieval music theory complaint and literally the best most bonkers depraved monk freak show mock-gothic novel paired with a gin-soaked tea (do re mi!) and repugnant Jolly Rancher retro-cocktail. With awesome special guest stars Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt.
Voice Crying in the Wilderness 30.09.2022 35:14
An elegant and informed exposition of John the Baptist's birth paired with a cloudy red seafood drink.
The Babee's Boke 16.09.2022 31:49
A pedantic grind about table manners with a syrupy cocktail for babies.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT plus two micro-fails and hotdogwater beer 30.07.2022 26:46
We interrupt summer hiatus to invite proposals for a live Canterbury Fails: do you want to be on the Fails? We want you to be on the Fails. We're hosting a live participatory episode at Kalamazoo in May 2023. Please listen and submit; website here: wmich.edu/medievalcongress. Plus two micro-fails: barbaric scrawl and Ovidian lament
A wayle whyt as whalles bone 24.06.2022 41:53
A maligned Harley lyric about birds in a lady's underclothes paired with a whale-poop tinged concoction: a cetaeceous sazerac.
Whitsunday (Tongues of Fire and a Dove) 10.06.2022 34:27
A homely homily that keeps things very rote, with the BEST cocktail.
A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle 27.05.2022 50:59
A fifteenth-century fishing handbook by a very chill nun, accompanied by a Herculean face-punch.
Adrian and Ritheus 06.05.2022 45:01
Wack-ass trivia in Q+A form, someone might call "Dylanesque" with the sublime nectar of the BVM's infinite glory.
Adam Davy's Dreams 15.04.2022 41:53
A dumb-ass political dream vision and kooky conspiracy theory with a potent citrus and herb concoction.
Old English Boethius Meter 30 01.04.2022 35:47
Homer and Virgil buddy-pic with a fizzy tree-licker.
A Talk of Ten Wives on their Husbands' Ware 12.03.2022 36:15
A parade of penis jokes with a disgusting double cocktail.
Old English Life of Saint Machutus 26.02.2022 49:44
A monotonous litany of fascinating miracles chased by a revivifying kick.
Quatrefoil of Love 12.02.2022 36:00
A droning dove sermon paired with smoky and herbaceous medicine.
Kentish Hymn 29.01.2022 40:59
A stultifying blanditude of Kentish verse paired with a trinitarian face-melter.
Wright's Chaste Wife 15.01.2022 39:19
A late Middle English not-fabliau with a whipped frothy refresher.
Pharaoh 22.12.2021 39:43
An Old English "scrap of monkish experimenting" and a cumin-forward cocktail.
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