Don Paterson

Frank celebrates the razor-sharp poetic mind of Don Paterson. The poem referenced is ‘Rain’.

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’.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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This week, Frank discovers two very different war poets, Alan Ross and Alan Seeger. The poems referenced are ‘Mess Deck’ by Alan Ross and ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death’ by Alan Seeger.

Alans at War

This week, Frank explains why the poet, Charlotte Mew, should, in his opinion, be a household name. The poems referenced are ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ and ‘Sea Love’.

Charlotte Mew

This week, Frank screams the praises of Sinéad Morrissey’s Beatlemania poems. The book referenced is ‘On Balance’. The poems referenced are ‘The Millihelen’ and ‘Perfume’.

Sinéad Morrisey

Thomas Hardy

This week: Thomas Hardy’s poetry, featuring love, death and men that look like holly bushes. The poems referenced are ‘Exeunt Omnes’, ‘A Light Snow-Fall After Frost’ and ‘A Countenance’.

Selima Hill

This week, Frank enters the funny but unsettling world of Selima Hill. The collection referenced is ‘Men Who Feed Pigeons’.

John Keats

This week, John Keats talks to pottery. The poem referenced is ‘Ode on A Grecian Urn’.

John Masefield

This week, we look at a John Masefield poem from 1911, in which a naked drunk runs through a town at midnight, threatening firefighters with their own hose-nozzles. The poems referenced are ‘Sea-Fever’, ‘The Everlasting Mercy’, ‘Dauber’ and ‘Partridges’.

Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry.  Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production for Bauer Media.

Lying in the dark, buds in ears, listening to poems and Frank conjuring up worlds is beyond the beyond. Equally recommended is being transported while doing the ironing.

Wake up to poetry

I thoroughly enjoyed this pod! Sorry for the repetition, but it is truly brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant!

Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production for Bauer Media.

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Caroline Knox

Frank is often attracted to a poem by its title. This week he discusses 'Famous Bigshots' by Caroline Knox.

Philip Larkin

Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack.Poems referenced:Philip Larkin – Wild OatsPhilip Larkin - Dockery and SonPhilip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb

Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack. Poems referenced: Philip Larkin – Wild Oats Philip Larkin - Dockery and Son Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb

Donna Stonecipher

Frank Skinner takes us on a guided tour of Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’.Poems Referenced:Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) - The Lay of Saint CuthbertFrom Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’:Number 8Number 47Number 19Number 14Number 69Number 51

Frank Skinner takes us on a guided tour of Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’. Poems Referenced: Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) - The Lay of Saint Cuthbert From Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’: Number 8 Number 47 Number 19 Number 14 Number 69 Number 51

Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly.Poems referenced include:Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During EternityGregory Corso - Man About to Enter SeaAllen Ginsberg - Sunflower SutraWilliam Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A CloudLawrence Ferlinghetti – HePlus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too.

Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly. Poems referenced include: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During Eternity Gregory Corso - Man About to Enter Sea Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Lawrence Ferlinghetti – He Plus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too.

The Beat Poets

William Carlos Williams

Stevie Smith

Frank Skinner delves into Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', and William Carlos Williams' 'Dance Russe'. There will be no guests, just Frank exploring different poems every week.

Stevie Smith and William Carlos Williams

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