Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis
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Martin Bell
Season 9 · Episode 8
mercredi 28 février 2024 • Duration 45:53
Frank loves a hard-drinking, hard-smoking Polytechnic lecturer like Martin Bell, especially when he is offering poetic praise to Groucho Marx. The poems referenced are ‘Ode to Groucho’ by Martin Bell and ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats.
Jo Shapcott
Season 9 · Episode 7
mercredi 21 février 2024 • Duration 54:18
Jo Shapcott sends Frank, an enthusiastic tree-hugger, into a sap-soaked frenzy. The collection referenced is ‘Of Mutability’. The poems referenced are ‘I Go Inside The Tree’, ‘My Oak’ and ‘Cypress’.
Geoffrey Hill
Season 8 · Episode 7
mercredi 13 septembre 2023 • Duration 47:19
Frank indulges his obsession with the Anglo Saxons as he reads Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns.
Robert Browning
Season 8 · Episode 6
mercredi 6 septembre 2023 • Duration 51:12
Did he or didn't he? Frank investigates Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'. The other poem referenced is 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning.
Jean Sprackland
Season 8 · Episode 5
mercredi 30 août 2023 • Duration 44:25
Nature gets horny and reflective. Frank is excited about the poetry of Jean Sprackland. The collection referenced is 'Green Noise'. The poem referenced is 'April' and the sequence referenced is 'The Lost Villages'.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Season 8 · Episode 4
mercredi 23 août 2023 • Duration 52:45
Frank examines statues and statutes with Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poems referenced are 'England in 1918' and 'Ozymandias'. The essay referenced is 'A Defense of Poetry'.
Sylvia Plath
Season 8 · Episode 3
mercredi 16 août 2023 • Duration 38:47
Frank howls at the moon with Sylvia Plath. The poems referenced are 'The Moon and the Yew Tree' and 'Ariel. TW: mentions of suicide.
Don Paterson
Season 8 · Episode 2
mercredi 9 août 2023 • Duration 44:56
Frank celebrates the razor-sharp poetic mind of Don Paterson. The poem referenced is 'Rain'.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Season 8 · Episode 1
mercredi 2 août 2023 • Duration 40:38
Elizabeth Barrett Browning shows Frank that it's hard to be a mother and a poet and a revolutionary. The poem referenced is 'Mother and Poet'.
Series 8 Trailer
Season 8
mercredi 26 juillet 2023 • Duration 00:27