Selima Hill
This week, Frank enters the funny but unsettling world of Selima Hill. The collection referenced is ‘Men Who Feed Pigeons’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 12, 2023•37 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production.
Episodes
John Keats
This week, John Keats talks to pottery. The poem referenced is ‘Ode on A Grecian Urn’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 05, 2023•51 min•Season 7Ep. 1
John Masefield
This week, we look at a John Masefield poem from 1911, in which a naked drunk runs through a town at midnight, threatening firefighters with their own hose-nozzles. The poems referenced are ‘Sea-Fever’, ‘The Everlasting Mercy’, ‘Dauber’ and ‘Partridges’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 29, 2023•41 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Kay Ryan
This week: why do so many of us stagger through life leaving a trail of chaos and confusion? American poet, Kay Ryan, reveals it’s because we are carrying an invisible ladder. The poems referenced are ‘We’re Building the Ship As We Sail It’, ‘Carrying A Ladder’ and ‘Blandeur’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 22, 2023•40 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Richard Wilbur
This week, American poet, Richard Wilbur, explains why stones aren’t very ambitious. The poems referenced are ‘A Dubious Night’ and ‘Two Voices in A Meadow’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 15, 2023•48 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Ada Limón
This week, American Poet Laureate, Ada Limón heads for the safe haven of the parental raincoat. The poems referenced are ‘The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual’, ‘The Raincoat’ and ‘Before’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 08, 2023•38 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Ted Hughes
This week, Ted Hughes shows us that writing a poem is like a stinking fox walking across a snow-covered field. The poem referenced are ‘The Thought Fox’ and ‘The Jaguar’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 01, 2023•48 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Simon Armitage
This week, our Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, writes a brilliant poem about what some might think is an unlikely subject. The poem referenced is ‘The Patriarchs – An Elegy’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 22, 2023•40 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Carol Ann Duffy
This week, Carol Ann Duffy considers the profound, prayer-like quality of the Shipping Forecast. The poems referenced are ‘Death of a Teacher’ and ‘Prayer’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 15, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 2
John Betjeman
This week, John Betjeman gets a tennis-based humiliation from the girl of his dreams. The poem referenced is ‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 08, 2023•46 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Series 6 Trailer
Series 6 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 8th February. See you there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 02, 2023•2 min
Sir Thomas Wyatt
At last, our first jousting poet - Frank meets Sir Thomas Wyatt, head-on. The poems referenced are They Flee From Me and Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 06, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Emily Dickinson
Frank went on holiday with Emily Dickinson and came back in love with her poetry. The poems referenced are ‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’, ‘One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted’ and ‘A Wind That Rose’ by Emily Dickinson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29, 2022•44 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Clare Pollard
Vampires and mermaids - Frank falls under the spell of Clare Pollard’s fabulous poetry. The collection referenced is Changeling by Clare Pollard and the individual poems referenced are Zennor and Whitby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 22, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Frank meets Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott and finds out why Camelot is a bit of a lottery. The poems referenced are The Charge Of The Light Brigade and The Lady Of Shalott both by Tennyson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 15, 2022•39 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Leontia Flynn
Drunken nights and floppy discs - Frank gets excited about the poetry of Leontia Flynn. The collection referenced is Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn and the individual poems referenced are Anecdote and The Floppy Disk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 08, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 2
The Mersey Sound
Frank explains why the first poetry book he ever bought, The Mersey Sound, changed his life forever. The poems referenced are Without You and The New ‘Our Times’ by Adrian Henri, Where Are You Now, Batman, Party Piece and After Breakfast by Brian Patten, and On Picnics, Café Portraits and Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 01, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Series 5 Trailer
Series 5 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming very soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 30, 2022•2 min
Robert Hayden
Frank shares a cold, sad Sunday morning with Robert Hayden. The poems referenced are Those Winter Sundays and The Whipping by Robert Hayden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 02, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Michael Symmons Roberts
Frank explores the poetic treasure-trove that is Michael Symmons Roberts’ collection, Drysalter. The poems referenced are Face to Face, Through a Glass Darkly and Discoverers by Michael Symmons Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 23, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Wordsworth Revisited: The Leech-Gatherer
Wordsworth revisited: the leech-gatherer. The poem referenced is Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 16, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Nick Laird
Frank loves Nick Laird’s poetry. And manual typewriters. The collection referenced is On Purpose by Nick Laird and the poem referenced is The Underwood No. 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 09, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Walt Whitman
Frank loves Walt Whitman, right down to his comfortable shoes… The poems referenced are Poets to Come, To You, Song of the Universal and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 02, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Jen Hadfield
Frank heads North with the amazing Jen Hadfield. The collection referenced is The Stone Age by Jen Hadfield. The individual poems referenced are Hardanger Fiddle & Nyckelharpa, (Lighthouse) and (Erratic) by Jen Hadfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 26, 2022•52 min•Season 4Ep. 3
John Milton
Batman, Captain America and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 19, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Caroline Bird
Frank celebrates Caroline Bird and wonders if he should have saved this one for Valentine’s Day. The collection referenced is The Air Year by Caroline Bird. The individual poems discussed are Temporary Vows and I Am Not a Falconer, both by Caroline Bird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 12, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Series 4 Trailer
Series 4 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 10, 2022•2 min
WH Auden
Frank meets WH Auden in an art gallery and falls in love all over again. Poems referenced: Musée des Beaux Arts - WH Auden Funeral Blues - WH Auden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 07, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Ellen Hinsey
Frank finds out when the Illegal Age began, with Ellen Hinsey. Please note this podcast has some disturbing content. Poem referenced: The Illegal Age - Ellen Hinsey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 30, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Matthew Arnold
Frank spends a dark night on Dover Beach with Matthew Arnold and, hold on, isn’t that Sophocles over there? Poems referenced: Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse - Matthew Arnold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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