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The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen's short stories

Episode 13

Sunday, December 24, 2023 • Duration 11:27

In the final episode of the Long and Short, we turn to Elizabeth Bowen, widely considered one of the finest writers of the short story. Mark and Seamus unpack ‘the Bowen effect’ and her singularly haunting style: subtle social commentary cut through with humour, and occasionally outright romanticism. A culmination of the short fiction explored in this series, Bowen’s work proves that life ‘with the lid on’ can be just as exhilarating, moving and funny as any sensationalist story. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Stories discussed in this episode: ‘The Parrot’ ‘Joining Charles’ ‘The Needlecase’ ‘Mysterious Kôr’ ‘The Demon Lover’ Further reading in the LRB: ⁠⁠John Bayley⁠⁠ ⁠⁠David Trotter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Tessa Hadley⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Sean O'Faolain⁠

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The Long and Short: Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’

Episode 12

Friday, November 24, 2023 • Duration 11:50

The eleventh episode of the Long and Short brings us to the present day and the distant past, as we turn to two multivocal, monumental poems by Alice Oswald. The dazzlingly polyphonic Dart (2002) celebrates the voices of the river Dart, and the people, animals and supernatural forces entwined with it. Memorial (2011) translates and transfigures the Iliad, stripping back the narrative to reveal the epic’s ‘bright unbearable reality’. Mark and Seamus explore the thematic throughlines in Oswald’s work, unpicking allusions and influences at play in these poems. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Further reading in the LRB: ⁠Colin Burrow: On Alice Oswald⁠ ⁠Aingeal Clare: Outcanoeuvre⁠ ⁠Ange Mlinko: Good Jar, Bad Jar⁠ ⁠Alice Oswald: Two Poems

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Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

Episode 3

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • Duration 10:10

In the second episode of the series, Mark and Seamus turn to ‘Song of Myself’, for Mark 'one of the most exciting things literature has to offer'. They discuss the extraordinary physicality and exuberance of this seminal American poem, its relationship with urbanism, capitalism and sexuality, and its Johnny Appleseed-spirit, among many other things. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠

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Tennyson's 'Maud'

Episode 2

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • Duration 09:43

Mark Ford and Seamus Perry start their series, The Long and Short, with Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, a weird and disturbing poem about obsession that Tennyson himself was obsessed by. He would recite it in full at the drop of a hat, sometimes more than once, to friends and foes alike – even though it received notoriously bad reviews when it was published. This episode considers why the poem meant so much to him, and what it tells us about the Victorian age. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Read more on Tennyson in the LRB: Seamus Perry: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n02/seamus-perry/are-we-there-yet Danny Karlin: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n20/danny-karlin/tennyson-s-text

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Introducing The Long and Short

Episode 1

Monday, January 2, 2023 • Duration 08:40

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford introduce their series on long poems and short stories from the 19th and 20th centuries, and talk about some of the ideas which will underpin their twelve episodes. The authors discussed in the series will be: Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Nella Larson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald.

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Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'

Episode 11

Monday, October 23, 2023 • Duration 11:40

In the tenth episode of the series, Seamus and Mark turn to two figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nella Larsen’s Passing is a taut, tense and tartly stylish take on the Jamesian short story, redolent with ironies and ambiguities, that feels just as relevant today. Widely considered his masterwork, Langston Hughes’s ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ draws on the modernist tradition, a documentarian sensibility and the freedoms of bebop to capture the multiplicity of Harlem voices. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Further reading in the LRB: ⁠Amber Medland: They Roared with Laughter⁠ ⁠Lewis Nkosi: An Unamerican in New York⁠ ⁠James Campbell: White Lies⁠ ⁠Joanna Biggs: What She Wasn't

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Ted Hughes’s ‘Gaudete’

Episode 10

Saturday, September 23, 2023 • Duration 12:52

Originally conceived as a film script, Gaudete is Ted Hughes’s apocalyptic vision of an English village in the throes of pagan forces. While it may be ‘the weirdest poem by a very weird poet’, as Mark puts it in this episode, Gaudete shines a light on many Hughesian preoccupations and paved the way for his best-selling collection, Birthday Letters. A strange fusion of Twin Peaks and Midsomer Murders, Gaudete is the former Poet Laureate at his most uninhibited and brilliant. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠

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James Joyce's ‘Dubliners’

Episode 9

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 • Duration 10:24

James Joyce wrote most of the short stories in his landmark collection, Dubliners, when he was still in his 20s, but a tortuous publishing history, during which printers refused or pulped them for their profanity, meant they weren’t published until 1914, when Joyce was 33. In their eighth episode, Mark and Seamus discuss the astonishing confidence of Joyce’s early work, which not only launched his literary career, but also initiated the grand project of his writing life. In Dubliners, the reader experiences already the vastness of Joyce’s literary imagination, his harsh criticism of the Catholic Church, his shameless plundering of the lives of his contemporaries, and a writer’s self-conscious vocation to ‘forge the uncreated conscience of his race’. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Stories discussed in this episode: 'The Sisters' 'Clay' 'Two Gallants' 'A Little Cloud' 'A Painful Case' 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' 'The Dead' Further reading in the LRB: ⁠John Bayley: Our Founder⁠ ⁠Tim Parks: Joyce and Company⁠ ⁠Roy Foster: tarry easty⁠ ⁠Colm Tóibín: His Spittin' Image

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Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’

Episode 8

Sunday, July 23, 2023 • Duration 11:35

Seamus and Mark step into the counterculture with two long poems, ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’, by Allen Ginsberg, a Beat poet-celebrity with a utopian vision for an America rescued from its corrupted institutions and vested interests. Published in 1956, ‘Howl’ influenced post-war culture like no other literary work, a mind-expanded free-verse jeremiad that is also a celebratory poem of absolute ruin, it offered a restless generation a seductive escape from what Lowell called the ‘tranquillised fifties’. In his intensely confessional 1961 poem ‘Kaddish’, a eulogy to his dead mother, Ginsberg offered a graphic account of his traumatic childhood and evolution that plugged directly into his era’s obsession with subjectivity. Seamus and Mark discuss some of Ginsberg’s influences – including Whitman, Carlos Williams, O’Hara and Blake – and the far-reaching impact of his work, as well as Mark’s own experiences meeting the poet. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠

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D.H. Lawrence's short stories

Episode 7

Friday, June 23, 2023 • Duration 11:31

Controversial, compulsive, and overwhelmingly charismatic, D.H. Lawrence continues to exert an undeniable magnetism through his novels and poetry. But, as Mark argues in this episode, the quintessential Lawrence lies in his shorter fiction. Focusing on five stories that span Lawrence’s career, Mark and Seamus discuss the strange mix of uninhibitedness and meticulous detail that make Lawrence’s work essential reading. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlasapple⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod⁠ Stories discussed in this episode: ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ ‘The Prussian Officer’ ‘England, my England’ ‘The Blind Man’ ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’

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