Versify - Poetry and English Literature

Send us Fan Mail Three poems by US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) Support the show

Send us Fan Mail To celebrate Burns Night on Jan 25th, we tackle three poems by Scotland's greatest poet. We do some sketchy accents! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We venture to Alfriston, Sussex for a live Christmas pod. Three Christmas poems dismantled clumsily. Festive greetings! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A selection of poems by the esteemed Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore. Email: poetrypodcats@gmail.com Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three Poems by John Milton. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We get even more boggled than usual tackling three head-scratchers by American modernist Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Domination of Black The Emperor of Ice Cream 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Robert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Carlos Williams hang their Christmas stockings and get a full serving of Versify rambling. Shorter than a usual episode. It's a Christmas miracle! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Versify record their first live podcast in the beautiful Sussex village of Alfriston, tackling the poetry of British literary titan, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Poems: The Voice, The Convergence of the Twain, At Castle Boterel. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We blunder our way through our first ever poet in translation with predictably confused results. Our victim this time is revered Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Poems: Evening The Panther Archaic Torso of Apollo Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We discuss the life and poetry of Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We tackle one of the almighty greats of English poetry with predictably sketchy results. 'Reading King Lear', and odes on 'Melancholy' and 'A Grecian Urn' befuddle us plenty. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023 Poetry e e cummings James Merrill Henry Longfellow Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Poetry discussion Louis MacNeice  Louis MacNeice - Museums Louis MacNeice - Alcohol  Louis MacNeice- Soap Suds Support the show

Send us Fan Mail After an unacceptable delay waiting for Rob to edit this episode, it is finally available! Three poems by American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three oafish English guys tackle the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1901-1967). Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three poems by the former poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Betjeman, Bly, Hardy - Three Christmas Poems and Seasons Greetings from the Versify Podcast. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Philip Larkin.  The North Ship;  Mr Bleaney;  The Explosion. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Robert Frost -  The Tuft of Flowers;   On a Tree Fallen Across the Road;   Acquainted with the Night Support the show

Send us Fan Mail High excitement on the pod as we interview actual living poet Mai Black. Mai's book Thirty Angry Ghosts takes figures from across the world and gives their anger voice. In this Episode,  we meet Anne Boleyn;  Henry VIII and the Unknown Soldier. From Mai: 'Thirty Angry Ghosts' is the result of my year in lockdown. Someone on 'Suffolk Writers Group' Facebook...

Send us Fan Mail Three of Shakespeare's sonnets get dusted off and stared at for a bit. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three poems by Andrew Marvell go under the blurry microscope. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Three poems by Sir Stephen Spender. "Hamburg, 1929" "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great" Support the show