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Upper Street Madrid Podcast

Daniel Brint•www.upper-street-madrid.com
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Thoughts on language, literature, learning and culture
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Episode 8 Belloc and Burton - two poems.

In this episode I compare two poems in the comic/surreal tradition of warning poems for children, one by Hilaire Belloc and one by Tim Burton. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit https://www.upper-street-madrid.com/

Dec 09, 2018•9 min

Episode Six - Haiku in English

Haiku in English - including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Hass and John Cooper Clark. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit www.upper-street-madrid.com

Nov 09, 2018•8 min

Reflections on the poem 'To Any Reader' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

TO ANY READER As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will look Through the windows of this book, Another child, far, far away, And in another garden, play. But do not think you can at all, By knocking on the window, call That child to hear you. He intent Is all on his play-business bent. He does not hear; he will not look, Nor yet be lured out of this book. For, long ago, the truth to say, He has grown up and gone away, And it is but a child...

Oct 12, 2018•6 min
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