Never ones to shy away from the big questions, the poet Pele Cox and her student and co-host Rich Uridge ask: what is the purpose of poetry? With the help of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and a couple of sirs – Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Thomas Wyatt – they conclude that, in part, poetry’s job […]
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With Pele Cox in sunny Rome and her co-host Rich Uridge in soggy Shropshire the pair explore how the weather, place and experience can all contribute to poetry. They discuss the purpose of poetry and the differences (and similarities) between it and journalism. And with the help of Ted Hughes and his Birthday Letters they
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The first in a series in which the poet Pelé Cox and her pupil, the former journalist Richard Uridge, discuss poetry, its practice and potential as a tool for a creative life. In this eclectic opening episode they explore the differences between writing news reports and writing poetry with the help of another journalist –
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This is the last leg of our ‘Paradise of Exiles’ poetry course run through the British Institute of Florence – on the matter of the huge influence of Italian poetry on our great English poets: Wyatt; Christina Rossetti; Robert Barrett-Browning; Shelley . Dante was scheduled for a single session : we have run to three-
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Any chance I get to talk about poetry I grab. So when mental heath campaigner Rachel Kelly and I were asked to contribute to the Break Out Culture by Country Town and House podcast with Ed Vaizey and Charlotte Metcalf, I didn’t hesitate to say yes! You can listen to our musings here.
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The enduring and radical value of poetry But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew upon a thought can make thousands,If not millions think. Lord Byron (Don Juan) Can poetry have any real meaning in the modern world? Can the utterance of a poet have any more relevance than the extraordinary
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I met Michael that evening in 1997 in ‘The Red Lion’ in Piccadilly because he was having a drink with Don Paterson who had been my teacher at the Arvon Foundation I was very pleased to see Don. At the time Donaghy and Paterson were the two most well known young poets of their day.
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