Uncited: An English Lit Podcast

Chantelle is sick and Amy is reading Unity 1918! This Canadian play by Kevin Kerr throws back to a different plague. Content warning if you have COVID anxiety.

It's been a year and a half since we covered Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Now time for the screen adaptation! It was... an experience. Scroll down to Episode 5 for our take on the original poem.

We're back on our bullsh(akespeare) with The Merchant of Venice! It's a comedy, apparently. Content warning for major discussion of antisemitism.

This week we talk about Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad! Also nothing is different. Don't worry about it. Content warnings for racism and violent imagery. If you're wondering what's going on, head over to Not Again! You can follow Not Again! at @NotAgainPod on Twitter.

I'm coming out of my Shel, and I've been doing just fine. This week we talk about Shel Silverstein's total mix bag of a biography, assorted poems, and most famous children's book, The Giving Tree.

We welcome special guest Bex Goos as we all chat about The Goblin Market, which is (definitely) a poem about fruit by our homegirl Christina Rossetti. Content warning for sexual assault and, separately, incest.

It's a special episode featuring original poems from Reddit's writer community! Special thanks to Muneeb Ali, low-tie, and Liz Ringo for letting us read their poems on air, and also to r/OCPoetry for bringing together talented people from the many corners of the internet.

It finally happened! We talked about The Wars by Timothy Findley! We chat about this rad Canadian author, pacifism, homosocialism, and when to forgive someone for not giving back your book. Content warnings: war, violence, death (including both human and animal death), suicide, rape.

We're taking a trip back in time to the superior '20s: the roaring ones! This week we chat about Mrs. Dalloway, including: modernism, bland characters, and going back to our queer reading roots. Content warning for suicide.

Happy New Year! We're ringing in 2022 with a New Year's poem, your unpopular book opinions, and highbrow literature*! (*listicles)

It's our second holiday episode! We're talking about Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, with its festive theme of the birth of the Antichrist. (It's a Christmas thing. No need to fact check it.)

We're talking about Swift! No, English majors, not that one. This week we analyze Taylor Swift's All Too Well as the high art poem it is.

We chat about Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, including: when people think time travel is the most logical explanation, racism, and how to pronounce diaspora. Content warnings for slavery, rape, self-harm, violence, and suicide.

We talk about The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Eurocentrism, and the link between slavery and the treatment of Indigenous communities. On a lighter note, we find it's impossible to say "no" in an Australian accent. Content warning for talk about slavery, abuse, child death, rape, and residential schools.

It's our one year anniversary! We talk about the stupidity that is the colonial travel narrative, giant nudity, and the magic of buying into things that couldn't possibly be real.

Today we interview award-winning poet Megan Misztal about her newly published chapbook, "Vestiges". We delve into relationships, life, grief, and love. Grab your tissues and be prepared to hear three grown women sob over cats. Megan can be found on Instagram @MegansDesk, and her chapbook "Vestiges" can be purchased at www.bywords.ca.

This week we chat about children's literature--none of which Amy has read! Join us as one of us revisits old favourites, the other experiences English kids' books for the very first time, and both of us go through your brand new recommendations.

This week we talk about comparisons! My Antonia or Beloved? Books or movies? How is love like a sourdough starter? Listen to the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series to find out!

Today we talk about a very important novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison. Because of the serious topics covered in this book, we are taking a break from our usual comedy podcast to delve into the context of the setting, during and after slavery in the American south. You can hear a more in-depth analysis of these topics over on The Stacks - Episode 60. Content warnings for slavery, murder, torture, ra...

This week we talk about Willa Cather's My Antonia because... well, we had to eventually. In which Chantelle hates the main character and Amy hates prairie fiction! Content warnings for suicide, murder, and attempted sexual assault.

126 years ago, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine imagined a worst case scenario for humanity's future that was somehow still more optimistic than your average millennial. This week we chat about time travel, socialism, and problematic not-faves.

Today we chat about Shakespeare's Macbeth, a play that completely fails the Bechdel test and still manages to hinge all its best moments on its female characters. Featuring hot takes by more people than just us!

This week we chat about Yeats's The Second Coming, very reliable memory techniques, fairies, and monkey scrotums. This is a classy podcast.

It's time for Paper Towns by John Green! Join us to chat about a book we actually love and find out why we read this during our English undergrad. Young adult lit is real lit, pass it on.

Join Amy and special guest Zach for a chat about A Midsummer Night's Dream by our boy, Willy Shakes, and Sandman #19: A Midsummer Night's Dream by our other boy, Neil Gaiman!