The Poetry Tavern

The new year has finally come, so this week's episode is about poems from 2025, from Kathleen Ossip and John Jeremiah Sullivan. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/poems-from-2025 Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/27 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week, we are looking at Christmas poems, with examples from Sandra M Castillo, Christina Rossetti and Timothy Tocher Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/christmas-2025 Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/26 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this weeks episode, we are looking at archaism in poetry, with examples from Robert Frost and Tim Turnball. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/archaism Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/25 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this episode, we are looking at dialogism and conversation within poetry, with examples from Galway Kinnell and Louise Gluck. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/dialogism Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/24 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

Looking at the Beat Generation, with poetry examples from Amiri Baraka and Gary Snyder. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/the-beat-generation Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/23 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week we are talking about various different rhyme schemes, with examples from Abbie Farwell Brown and Francis Duggan Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/rhyme-schemes Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/22 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week we are talking about poems that use personification, looking at examples from Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/personification Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/21 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

We're covering lyric poems in this episode, looking at examples of this classic form from Clive Staples Lewis and Nikki Giovanni. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/lyric-poetry Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/20 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this episode, we talk about extended metaphors within poetry, with examples from Elizabeth Bishop and Jose A Alcantara. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/extended-metaphors Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/15 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This episode, we are looking at poems that contain puns and word play, exploring the different ways it can be used in poetry. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/puns Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/14 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel Lindsay and Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/allegory Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/13 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel Lindsay and Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/anthropomorphism Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/12 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week, we cover haikus, both those translated from Japanese and those written in the English language, covering a range of topics. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/haiku Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/8 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week is all about acrostic poems, looking at poems from both Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, seeing poems that each use variations on the acrostic form. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/acrostic Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/4 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

This week, we are talking all about Sonnets, both what they are and discussing specific examples, with poems by Christina Rossetti and Rafael Campo. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/sonnets Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/3 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In this episode, we talk about the different ways in which repetition can be used within poetry, looking at examples from Lewis Carroll and Maya Angelou. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/repetition Download: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/download/2 Subscribe to The Poetry Tavern for more episodes about poetry, literature, and the art of verse.

In our opening episode, we discuss what poetry actually is, including discussing how it goes beyond what we are sometimes told or expect. Your host, Charlotte, explains, while peppering a handful of poems, old and new, throughout. Welcome to a brand new show, about poetry and all its parts. Show Notes: Listen online: https://thepoetrytavern.co.uk/episodes/what-is-poetry Download: https://thepoetry...