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Robert Frost - The Tuft of Flowers;  On a Tree Fallen Across the Road;  Acquainted with the Night

High excitement on the pod as we interview actual living poet Mai Black.Mai's book Thirty Angry Ghosts takes figures from across the world and gives their anger voice.In this Episode,  we meet Anne Boleyn;  Henry VIII and the Unknown Soldier.From Mai:'Thirty Angry Ghosts' is the result of my year in lockdown. Someone on 'Suffolk Writers Group' Facebook challenged us all to write from the point of view of a famous person's ghost. I did Anne Boleyn and loved it, so the next day I wrote a poem in the voice of Helen of Troy. I've always loved history as well as poetry so it was the perfect project for me. I'm so pleased with the finished book and with the response it's had so far. Next, I'm hoping to share it with local high schools as it seems a fairly natural follow-on from the popular 'Horrible Histories' series and fits in well with quite a few curriculum areas. Currently I'm writing and researching a novel set in 18th Century London. I'm also running a variety of poetry courses on Zoom and leading writing workshops for the well-being charity 'Inside Out Community'. Details of the book and the courses I run can be found at www.suffolkwritersgroup.com

Three of Shakespeare's sonnets get dusted off and stared at for a bit.

Three poems by Andrew Marvell go under the blurry microscope.

Three poems by Sir Stephen Spender."Hamburg, 1929""An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum""I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great"

Departure  Recuerdo  Dirge Without MusicThe pod reads and reflects on three poems by Edna St Vincent Millay

Three Poems by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963).

Three poems by  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).email: poetrypodcats@gmail.comTwitter: @poetrypodcats

Three poems by A.E. Housman (1859 – 1936).

Versify - The Poetry and English Literature PodcastThree poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)Safe in their Alabaster ChambersI Dreaded That First Robin SoA Precious - Mouldering Pleasure 'Tispoetrypodcats@gmail.comTwitter: @poetrypodcats

Three poems by the Welsh poet RS Thomas (1913-2000):The Country CleregyA Welsh TestamentTo A Young Poetpoetrypodcats@gmail.comTwitter: @poetrypodcats

A sampling of poems by the acclaimed US poet-physician William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) are tackled by the bungling co-hosts.

A selection of poems from 'Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis' and 'Serious Concerns'Apologies to anybody who downloaded an earlier file that was out of synch.

Discussion of W H Auden poems The Novelist The Fall of Rome September 1st 1939 poetrypodcats@gmail.com

Discussion of Sylvia Plath Mushrooms You're Crossing the Water

The Pod considers Edgar Allan Poe's Romance,  The City in the Sea and The Conqueror Worm.Do email us with comments or suggestions (or corrections!) at:poetrypodcats@gmail.com

The pod considers Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Darkness.

We discuss three poems by Christina Rossetti

The crew discuss three Seamus Heaney poems:  Follower Scaffolding and Badgers

The team dive in to three poems by WB Yeats.Comments/suggestions welcomed at poetrypodcats@gmail.com