Frank reads Tracy K Smith and finally gets his priorities right. Collections referenced: Wade in the Water - Tracy K Smith Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman Poems referenced: Political Poem – Tracy K Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank hits the high notes with Peter Riley and accidentally arrives at his favourite-ever definition of poetry. Collection referenced: Passing Measures – Peter Riley Poems referenced: The Little Watercolour at Sligo – Peter Riley Do It Again – Peter Riley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank explores the wonders and horrors of city-life, with Denise Levertov and two dogs of disproportionate size. Poems referenced: The Rainwalkers by Denise Levertov The Mutes by Denise Levertov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank celebrates one of his all-time favourite poems: The Star-Splitter by Robert Frost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank discovers Ella Frears at a motorway services and shares some intimate notes. Collection referenced: Shine, Darling by Ella Frears Poems referenced: Midpoint by Ella Frears The Film by Ella Frears Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Couplets, cruelty and the occasional caning. Frank enters the poetical world of Alexander Pope. Poems Referenced Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rita Dove teaches Frank the art of poetry and how to pull. Poems Referenced: Ars Poetica - Rita Dove Flirtation - Rita Dove Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank walks the untrodden ways with William Wordsworth. Poems Referenced: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - William Wordsworth Spring – Alexander Pope The Tables Turned – William Wordsworth Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known – William Wordsworth A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – William Wordsworth Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower – William Wordsworth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Never mind the poetry, here’s the white bits. Frank has a wild night out with the Polish poet, Tadeusz Dabrowski. Poems Referenced: I Believe All Round the Clock - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Soiree - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Bunny Slope - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank has always had a fascination with the Wild West. In this episode he explores the macabre Western ballads of Cathy Park Hong. This podcast contains some disturbing images. Poems Referenced: Abecedarian Western - Cathy Park Hong Ballad in I – Cathy Park Hong The Song of Katydids – Cathy Park Hong From ‘Fort Ballads’ Ballad of the Range – Cathy Park Hong Ballad of Fort Mann – Cathy Park Hong Ballad of Grace – Cathy Park Hong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Frank begins series 2 with a poem that made him cry in a hotel room. Poems Referenced: Bird – Liz Berry Birmingham Roller – Liz Berry The Sea of Talk – Liz Berry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Series 2 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the last of the series, Frank showers in the word-waterfall that is the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank is often attracted to a poem by its title. This week he discusses 'Famous Bigshots' by Caroline Knox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack. Poems referenced: Philip Larkin – Wild Oats Philip Larkin - Dockery and Son Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank Skinner takes us on a guided tour of Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’. Poems Referenced: Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) - The Lay of Saint Cuthbert From Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’: Number 8 Number 47 Number 19 Number 14 Number 69 Number 51 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly. Poems referenced include: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During Eternity Gregory Corso - Man About to Enter Sea Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Lawrence Ferlinghetti – He Plus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too. Learn mo...
Frank Skinner delves into Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', and William Carlos Williams' 'Dance Russe'. There will be no guests, just Frank exploring different poems every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Absolute Radio presenter and comedian Frank Skinner talks about poems “like I talk about football” in his new podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
