Modern-ish Poets: Series 2 https://www.lrb.co.uk en London Review of Books Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London. Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1e20932a-4aa4-11f0-9f2b-6f7034b84ead/image/77e6f3026a8469e63a8ae4b44c178689.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Modern-ish Poets: Series 2 https://www.lrb.co.uk no serial London Review of Books Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London. Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London.

Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

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]]> London Review of Books production@lrb.co.uk LIVE! T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' https://lrb.me/mp2sc⁠ On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by considering how revolutionary the poem was, the numerous meanings that have been drawn out of it, and its lasting influence. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Further reading on Eliot in the LRB: Frank Kermode: https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod Dan Jacobson: https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod Terry Eagleton: https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2022. Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:13:00 -0000 LIVE! T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' full 10 London Review of Books How revolutionary was 'The Waste Land'? Mark and Seamus discuss in this episode recorded before a live audience. On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by considering how revolutionary the poem was, the numerous meanings that have been drawn out of it, and its lasting influence. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Further reading on Eliot in the LRB: Frank Kermode: https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod Dan Jacobson: https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod Terry Eagleton: https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2022. On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by considering how revolutionary the poem was, the numerous meanings that have been drawn out of it, and its lasting influence.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Further reading on Eliot in the LRB:

Frank Kermode: https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod

Dan Jacobson: https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod

Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod

Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod

Terry Eagleton: https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2022.

]]> 4095 no Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery https://lrb.me/mp2sc⁠ Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB: C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022. Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:13:00 -0000 Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery full 9 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark look at the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB: C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB:

C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod

John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod

Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod

John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022.

]]> 3621 no Charlotte Mew https://lrb.me/mp2sc⁠ Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Further reading on Mew in the LRB: Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021. Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:13:00 -0000 Charlotte Mew full 8 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark discuss the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Further reading on Mew in the LRB: Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Further reading on Mew in the LRB:

Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod

Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod

Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.

]]> 2837 no W.B. Yeats https://lrb.me/mp2sc Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Read more in the LRB: Seamus Deane: https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod Michael Wood: https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod Colm Tóibín: https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021. Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:13:00 -0000 W.B. Yeats full 7 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Read more in the LRB: Seamus Deane: https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod Michael Wood: https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod Colm Tóibín: https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

Read more in the LRB:

Seamus Deane: https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod

Michael Wood: https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod

Colm Tóibín: https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021.

]]> 3700 no Emily Dickinson https://lrb.me/mpsignuppod Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2021. Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB: Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:13:00 -0000 Emily Dickinson full 6 London Review of Books Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity. Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2021. Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB: Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2021.

Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB:

Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod

Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod

Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod

Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod

Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod

]]> 3765 no Derek Walcott https://lrb.me/mpsignuppod Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021. Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB: 'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:12:00 -0000 Derek Walcott full 5 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021. Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB: 'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

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In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.

Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB:

'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod

Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod

Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod

Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod

Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod

]]> 3372 no Louis MacNeice https://lrb.me/mp2sc Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fourth episode of series two of Modern-ish Poets. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in November 2020. Further reading on MacNiece in the LRB: Ian Hamilton: https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod Marilyn Butler: https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod Nick Laird: https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:12:00 -0000 Louis MacNeice full 4 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fourth episode of series two of Modern-ish Poets. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in November 2020. Further reading on MacNiece in the LRB: Ian Hamilton: https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod Marilyn Butler: https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod Nick Laird: https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fourth episode of series two of Modern-ish Poets.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in November 2020.

Further reading on MacNiece in the LRB:

Ian Hamilton: https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod

John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod

Marilyn Butler: https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod

Nick Laird: https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod

]]> 3382 no Adrienne Rich https://lrb.me/mp2sc In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in September 2020. Further reading on Rich in the LRB: Jacqueline Rose: https://lrb.me/roserichpod Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtrichpod Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:12:00 -0000 Adrienne Rich full 3 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic. In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in September 2020. Further reading on Rich in the LRB: Jacqueline Rose: https://lrb.me/roserichpod Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtrichpod In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in September 2020.

Further reading on Rich in the LRB:

Jacqueline Rose: https://lrb.me/roserichpod

Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtrichpod

]]> 3303 no Robert Frost https://shows.acast.com/modern-ish-poets-series/episodes/robert-frost Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in August 2020. Further reading on Frost in the LRB: Leo Marx: https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod Peter Howarth: https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:12:00 -0000 Robert Frost full 2 London Review of Books Seamus and Mark look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in August 2020. Further reading on Frost in the LRB: Leo Marx: https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod Peter Howarth: https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2apple⁠

In other podcast apps: ⁠https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in August 2020.

Further reading on Frost in the LRB:

Leo Marx: https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod

Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod

Peter Howarth: https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod

Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod

]]> 3401 no Gerard Manley Hopkins https://lrb.me/mpsignuppod In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/mp2apple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Further reading on Hopkins in the LRB: Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020. Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:11:00 -0000 Gerard Manley Hopkins full 1 London Review of Books Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest. In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest. To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/mp2apple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/mp2sc Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell. Further reading on Hopkins in the LRB: Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020. In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.

To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/mp2apple

In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/mp2sc

Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

Further reading on Hopkins in the LRB:

Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod

Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod

John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020.

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