This is the index for the Poetry Voice Podcast. Clicking on a title will take you to that episode.
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July 2023
- Jul 13, 2023 W.B.Yeats' 'The Fisherman' Jul 13, 2023
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June 2023
- Jun 28, 2023 Two Epitaphs for an Army of Mercenaries Jun 28, 2023
- Jun 19, 2023 from 'Watt' by Samuel Beckett Jun 19, 2023
- Jun 4, 2023 Rudyard Kipling's 'The Last of the Light Brigade' Jun 4, 2023
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May 2023
- May 26, 2023 Memory, from A Man of Heart. May 26, 2023
- May 18, 2023 The Wassail ceremony. Vortigern meets Rowena May 18, 2023
- May 3, 2023 Hengist Leaves for Britain. From Liam Guilar's 'A Man of Heart'. May 3, 2023
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April 2023
- Apr 26, 2023 Michael Alexander's 'Beowulf Reduced' Apr 26, 2023
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December 2022
- Dec 8, 2022 Robert Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' Dec 8, 2022
- Dec 5, 2022 William Shakespeare's 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow' Dec 5, 2022
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July 2022
- Jul 3, 2022 Jeremy Hooker's '1st of July 2016 Jul 3, 2022
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June 2022
- Jun 12, 2022 Liam Guilar's 'Akhmatova's requiem' Jun 12, 2022
- Jun 4, 2022 Rudyard Kipling's 'The Way through the Woods'. Jun 4, 2022
- Jun 1, 2022 Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' Jun 1, 2022
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April 2022
- Apr 7, 2022 Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin..' Apr 7, 2022
- Apr 5, 2022 Taliesin's 'Marwnat Owein'. The lament for Owain son of Urien Rheged. Apr 5, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 10, 2022 Alun Lewis' 'The Swan's way' Mar 10, 2022
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February 2022
- Feb 25, 2022 Liam Guilar's 'These heroics One and Two'. Feb 25, 2022
- Feb 18, 2022 Dylan Thomas' 'The Force that though the green fuse drives the flower' Feb 18, 2022
- Feb 9, 2022 Susan Watson's 'Why she began to study the works of Sir Thomas Malory'. Feb 9, 2022
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January 2022
- Jan 31, 2022 William Blake's 'London'. Jan 31, 2022
- Jan 18, 2022 Liam Guilar's 'Byron In Venice: The poet in Exile.' Jan 18, 2022
- Jan 13, 2022 Miroslav Holub's ''A History lesson' Jan 13, 2022
- Jan 10, 2022 Randall Jarrell's 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'. Jan 10, 2022
- Jan 5, 2022 Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'Love's affliction'. (Cystudd Cariad) Jan 5, 2022
- Jan 3, 2022 R.S. Thomas' 'Mice' Jan 3, 2022
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December 2020
- Dec 18, 2020 Luis Quintais' 'Amphitheatre' (trans Lesley Saunders) Dec 18, 2020
- Dec 4, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'After the Funerals' Dec 4, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 27, 2020 Hafez 'What memories' (trans Dick Davis) Nov 27, 2020
- Nov 18, 2020 from Prudentius' 'Hamartigenia'. On Free Will. Nov 18, 2020
- Nov 12, 2020 Jeremy Hooker's 'Novelty' Nov 12, 2020
- Nov 5, 2020 Jeremy Hooker's 'Gull on a Post' Nov 5, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 28, 2020 Lewis Carroll's 'You are Old Father William' Oct 28, 2020
- Oct 22, 2020 William Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us'. (Any requests?) Oct 22, 2020
- Oct 22, 2020 Meirion Jordan's 'Arawn Lord of Annwn' Oct 22, 2020
- Oct 18, 2020 from Mathew Francis' 'The Mabinogi' Rhiannon's arrival Oct 18, 2020
- Oct 14, 2020 Dick Davis' 'A Translator's Nightmare' Oct 14, 2020
- Oct 8, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'Just once' Oct 8, 2020
- Oct 6, 2020 John Keats' 'When I have fears that I may cease to be'. Oct 6, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 30, 2020 George Herbert's 'The Collar' Sep 30, 2020
- Sep 16, 2020 Alfred De Musset's 'On a Dead Woman' (Sur une Morte) Sep 16, 2020
- Sep 8, 2020 The Archpoet's confession Sep 8, 2020
- Sep 2, 2020 Rudyard Kipling's 'If' Sep 2, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 28, 2020 Federico Garcia Lorca's 'Somnambule Ballad' Aug 28, 2020
- Aug 27, 2020 from Christopher Logue's 'War Music' 2. The Death of Patroculus. Aug 27, 2020
- Aug 19, 2020 from Christopher Logue's 'War Music'. 1 Patroculus pleads with Achilles. Aug 19, 2020
- Aug 13, 2020 Ovid's 'Pygmalion' trans Arthur Golding Aug 13, 2020
- Aug 11, 2020 Sappho's 'Fragment 31' Aug 11, 2020
- Aug 6, 2020 Charles Hamilton Sorley's 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' Aug 6, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 30, 2020 Lewis Carroll's 'The Walrus and the Carpenter'. Jul 30, 2020
- Jul 23, 2020 Carol Ann Duffy's 'You' Jul 23, 2020
- Jul 21, 2020 John Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' Jul 21, 2020
- Jul 13, 2020 Thomas E. Spencer's 'How McDougall topped the score' Jul 13, 2020
- Jul 2, 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' Jul 2, 2020
- Jul 2, 2020 C.P. Cavafy's 'The God Abandons Anthony' Jul 2, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 25, 2020 David Jones from 'The Fatigue' Jun 25, 2020
- Jun 24, 2020 Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 'The City of Yes and the City of No'. Jun 24, 2020
- Jun 18, 2020 Liam Guilar 's 'Shackleton's Grave.' Jun 18, 2020
- Jun 17, 2020 R.S.Thomas' 'Bravo' Jun 17, 2020
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May 2020
- May 27, 2020 Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'Whoso List to Hunt' May 27, 2020
- May 20, 2020 Sir Walter Ralegh's 'What is our life?' May 20, 2020
- May 13, 2020 Robert Graves' 'Ulysses' May 13, 2020
- May 6, 2020 W.B.Yeats' 'For Anne Gregory' May 6, 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 29, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'You never asked me for the Moon' Apr 29, 2020
- Apr 22, 2020 Sylvia Plath's 'The Applicant' Apr 22, 2020
- Apr 15, 2020 Seamus Heaney's 'Postscript' Apr 15, 2020
- Apr 8, 2020 Robert Browning 'Porphyria's Lover' Apr 8, 2020
- Apr 1, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'More than a broken token song' Apr 1, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 25, 2020 Basil Bunting's 'Now there's no hope of going back' Mar 25, 2020
- Mar 18, 2020 John Agard's 'Reporting from the front line of the great Dictionary Disaster' Mar 18, 2020
- Mar 11, 2020 John Clare's 'I Am' Mar 11, 2020
- Mar 4, 2020 W.B.Yeats' 'An Irish Airman foresees his death' Mar 4, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 26, 2020 Louise MacNeice's 'Thalassa Feb 26, 2020
- Feb 19, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'The Ugly Little Man's Version' Feb 19, 2020
- Feb 18, 2020 Percy Shelley's 'England 1819' Feb 18, 2020
- Feb 13, 2020 Robert Burns' 'A red red Rose' Feb 13, 2020
- Feb 11, 2020 John Betjeman's 'A Subaltern's love Song' Feb 11, 2020
- Feb 6, 2020 George Gascoigne's 'Gascoigne's Lullabie' Feb 6, 2020
- Feb 3, 2020 Robert Graves' 'The Persian Version' Feb 3, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 29, 2020 Liam Guilar's 'My Grandmother's story' Jan 29, 2020
- Jan 27, 2020 Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' Jan 27, 2020
- Jan 22, 2020 Dylan Thomas' 'Do not go gentle into that good night' Jan 22, 2020
- Jan 20, 2020 Robert Service's 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' Jan 20, 2020
- Jan 14, 2020 Louis MacNeice's 'The Introduction' Jan 14, 2020
- Jan 13, 2020 Basil Bunting's 'What the Chairman Told Tom'. Jan 13, 2020
- Jan 8, 2020 Andy Brown's 'Casket' from part V 'The High Barrow' Jan 8, 2020
- Jan 6, 2020 John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book 12, Adam and Eve leave Paradise Jan 6, 2020
- Jan 1, 2020 John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book Nine, Satan sees Eve. Jan 1, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 30, 2019 John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book One Dec 30, 2019
- Dec 25, 2019 T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' Dec 25, 2019
- Dec 23, 2019 Christina Rossetti's 'A Christmas Carol' Dec 23, 2019
- Dec 19, 2019 Peeping Tom Speaks from 'Lady Godiva and Me' Dec 19, 2019
- Dec 19, 2019 from 'Lady Godiva and me' The Modern City Dec 19, 2019
- Dec 17, 2019 W.B.Yeats' 'The Second Coming' Dec 17, 2019
- Dec 12, 2019 Thom Gunn's 'Expression' Dec 12, 2019
- Dec 10, 2019 Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'Pied Beauty' Dec 10, 2019
- Dec 5, 2019 Hugo William's 'Fall Zone' Dec 5, 2019
- Dec 3, 2019 James Laughlin's 'O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again" Dec 3, 2019
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November 2019
- Nov 28, 2019 T.S.Eliot from 'East Coker' Nov 28, 2019
- Nov 26, 2019 Sir Walter Ralegh's 'The Lie' Nov 26, 2019
- Nov 21, 2019 John Dryden's 'MacFlecknoe' Nov 21, 2019
- Nov 19, 2019 Carol Ann Duffy's 'Anne Hathaway' Nov 19, 2019
- Nov 13, 2019 Robert Graves' 'In Broken Images' Nov 13, 2019
- Nov 13, 2019 Rudyard Kipling's 'Gunga Din'. Nov 13, 2019
- Nov 6, 2019 Alfred Noyes' 'The Highwayman'. Nov 6, 2019
- Nov 4, 2019 Rudyard Kipling's 'A Smuggler's Song' Nov 4, 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 30, 2019 Christopher Logue's 'Caption for a photograph of four organized criminals' Oct 30, 2019
- Oct 29, 2019 Anon (1160 B.C.): The Harper's song for Inherkhawy Oct 29, 2019
- Oct 22, 2019 Philip Larkin's 'Church going'. Oct 22, 2019
- Oct 18, 2019 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's 'Swineherd' Oct 18, 2019
- Oct 16, 2019 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's 'Swineherd' Oct 16, 2019
- Oct 15, 2019 W.B.Yeats' 'The Wandering of Aengus' Oct 15, 2019
- Oct 9, 2019 Zbigniew Herbert's 'Mr. Cogito on Virtue' Oct 9, 2019
- Oct 8, 2019 Ivor Gurney's 'First Time In'. Oct 8, 2019
- Oct 3, 2019 Miroslav Holub's 'Napoleon'. Oct 3, 2019
- Oct 1, 2019 Chidiok Tichborne's 'My prime of youth is but a frost of cares' Oct 1, 2019
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September 2019
- Sep 25, 2019 Robert Graves' 'Flying Crooked' Sep 25, 2019
- Sep 24, 2019 B.H.Fairchild's 'Keats' Sep 24, 2019
- Sep 17, 2019 Hillaire Belloc's 'Tarantella' Sep 17, 2019
- Sep 16, 2019 Anon (Irish) 'Donal Og' Sep 16, 2019
- Sep 12, 2019 Edwin Muir's 'The Horses' Sep 12, 2019
- Sep 10, 2019 Louis MacNeice's 'Bagpipe Music'. Sep 10, 2019
- Sep 6, 2019 Thomas Hardy's 'Neutral tones' Sep 6, 2019
- Sep 4, 2019 John Keats' 'The Eve of Saint Agnes' Sep 4, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 28, 2019 D.H.Lawrence's 'Bavarian Gentians' Aug 28, 2019
- Aug 27, 2019 T.S.Eliot's 'The Waste Land' Aug 27, 2019
- Aug 21, 2019 Geoffrey Hill's 'Funeral Music' Aug 21, 2019
- Aug 20, 2019 Austin Clarke's 'The Planter's Daughter' Aug 20, 2019
- Aug 14, 2019 Thom Gunn's 'Black Jackets' Aug 14, 2019
- Aug 13, 2019 Henry Lawson's 'Up the Country' Aug 13, 2019
- Aug 7, 2019 A.B. Paterson's 'Clancy of the Overflow' Aug 7, 2019
- Aug 6, 2019 Caedmon's Hymn Aug 6, 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 30, 2019 W. B. Yeats' 'Sailing to Byzantium' Jul 30, 2019
- Jul 30, 2019 Rudyard Kipling's 'Mandalay' Jul 30, 2019
- Jul 24, 2019 Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'They Flee From Me' Jul 24, 2019
- Jul 22, 2019 John Masefield's 'Cargoes' Jul 22, 2019
- Jul 17, 2019 Gerald of Wales 'Three stories from The Journey through Wales'. Jul 17, 2019
- Jul 16, 2019 Liam Guilar's 'Two stories from Bede' Jul 16, 2019
- Jul 10, 2019 Jacqui Rowe's 'Done' Jul 10, 2019
- Jul 9, 2019 John Donne's 'Song' Jul 9, 2019
- Jul 3, 2019 Liam Guilar's 'Prologue to the stories of Vortigern' Jul 3, 2019
- Jul 1, 2019 Liam Guilar's 'Lute Recitals' Jul 1, 2019
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June 2019
- Jun 26, 2019 Edna St. VIncent Millay's 'Bluebeard'. Jun 26, 2019
- Jun 25, 2019 Christina Rossetti's 'A Chilly Night'. Jun 25, 2019
- Jun 19, 2019 Paula Meehan's 'My Father perceived as a vision of St. Francis' Jun 19, 2019
- Jun 18, 2019 Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias' Jun 18, 2019
- Jun 12, 2019 Charlotte Mew's 'The Farmer's Bride' Jun 12, 2019
- Jun 11, 2019 Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky'. Jun 11, 2019
- Jun 11, 2019 Lesley Saunders' 'Ephemera' Jun 11, 2019
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May 2019
- May 29, 2019 Byron's 'To Thomas Moore' May 29, 2019
- May 28, 2019 Rudyard Kipling's 'Danny Deever' May 28, 2019
- May 21, 2019 Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' May 21, 2019
- May 21, 2019 Lesley Saunders' 'Praise Song for a Pair of Earrings' May 21, 2019
- May 15, 2019 Josephine Balmer's 'The Librarians' Power'. May 15, 2019
- May 13, 2019 Mahmoud Darwish's 'Lesson from the Kama Sutra'. May 13, 2019
- May 8, 2019 Ciaran Carson, five sonnets from 'The Twelfth of Never'. May 8, 2019
- May 7, 2019 Anon: 'Dom Niperi Septoe' or 'The Dairy Maid'. May 7, 2019
- May 1, 2019 C.P. Cavafy's 'Ithaka'. May 1, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 30, 2019 Edward Thomas' 'The Gallows'. Apr 30, 2019
- Apr 23, 2019 Sam Daniel's from 'To Delia'. The first sonnet. Apr 23, 2019
- Apr 23, 2019 Margaret Atwood's 'Marrying the Hangman'. Apr 23, 2019
- Apr 18, 2019 from the Old English 'The Dream of the Rood'. Apr 18, 2019
- Apr 16, 2019 Bruce Dawe's 'And a Good Friday Was Had By All' Apr 16, 2019
- Apr 11, 2019 Vicki Feaver's 'Judith'. Apr 11, 2019
- Apr 3, 2019 Michael Longley's 'Laertes'. Apr 3, 2019
- Apr 2, 2019 David Jones' 'The Hunt'. Apr 2, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 28, 2019 Ezra Pound's 'Canto II' Mar 28, 2019
- Mar 27, 2019 Basil Buntings' 'Villon' Mar 27, 2019
- Mar 21, 2019 Seamus Heaney's 'The Given Note'. Mar 21, 2019
- Mar 20, 2019 Derek Mahon's 'Everything is going to be alright' Mar 20, 2019
- Mar 13, 2019 Liam Guilar 'Laȝamon remembers Ireland'. Mar 13, 2019
- Mar 7, 2019 Liam Guilar 'Presentment of Englishry' Mar 7, 2019
- Mar 1, 2019 Joseph Campbell Two Poems Mar 1, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 22, 2019 Patrick Kavanagh's 'Kerr's Ass' Feb 22, 2019
- Feb 7, 2019 Sonnet 1 from Sir Philip Sidney's 'Aristophil and Stella' Feb 7, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 24, 2019 from Laȝamon's 'Brut', The conception of King Arthur Jan 24, 2019
- Jan 23, 2019 Rudyard Kipling's 'A Three Part Song' Jan 23, 2019
- Jan 17, 2019 Dylan Thomas' 'Lament'. Jan 17, 2019
- Jan 15, 2019 Old English, From 'The Battle of Maldon' Byrhtnoth's reply to the Viking Messenger. Jan 15, 2019
- Jan 9, 2019 A.D.Hope's 'The End of a Journey' Jan 9, 2019
- Jan 8, 2019 A.A.Milne's 'Disobedience'. Jan 8, 2019
- Jan 3, 2019 Zbigniew Herbert's 'The Envoy of Mr. Cogito'. Jan 3, 2019
- Jan 1, 2019 'Ulysses' by Alfred Lord Tennyson Jan 1, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 26, 2018 Louis MacNeice 'Cradle song for Eleanor' Dec 26, 2018
- Dec 20, 2018 Anon (15th Century) 'I sing of a Maiden' Dec 20, 2018
- Dec 19, 2018 Robert Service's 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'. Dec 19, 2018
- Dec 18, 2018 Evan Boland's 'Quarantine' Dec 18, 2018
- Dec 12, 2018 T.S.Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Dec 12, 2018
- Dec 9, 2018 John Hewitt's 'An Irishman in Coventry' Dec 9, 2018
- Dec 7, 2018 Rudyard Kipling's 'In the Neolithic age'. Dec 7, 2018
- Dec 4, 2018 Episode one; The Prologue to Laȝamon's Brut Dec 4, 2018