It has been the usual mix this week of love, life and loss over here. Thank you as always for staying connected, listening and spreading the word. It is a wonderful thing to discover poems and share them with you - for the good days and the difficult ones.
If you haven’t yet told anyone about this podcast, this is the week to do it. (I think I say that every week… but it seems to work and subscribers are slowly gathering in.)
Carol Ann Duffy starts us off with some emblematic magic, followed by two careful pairings. I was really pleased to trawl through the Poetry By Heart website and discover a few new poems to top me up - that is where I found the poem by Fleur Adcock. Maybe I’ll learn it by heart.
And just a moment of appreciation to the gods of serendipity who brought me Jonathan Sellar’s poem that could not be a better bedfellow to John Berryman’s The Ball Poem. You’ll see… I forgot to mention that éclair means ‘lightning’ - just the thing to eat in a flash.
Any suggestions for what I could include next week? I’m always on the hunt for something new. You can send me a message here.
Onto the playlist:
The Look, Carol Ann Duffy: available here in the Scottish Poetry Library and it appears her collection for children, The Hat.
The Torch, Walt Whitman: read it here in the Walt Whitman archive.
Stewart Island, Fleur Adcock: on the Poetry by Heart website.
The Ball Poem, John Berryman: on The Poetry Foundation website.
The Treat, Jonathan Sellars: in the latest issue of Tyger Tyger.
