Billy Collins

Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins discusses Eamonn Grennan's 'Sea Dog' and his own poem 'Table Talk', exploring visual symbolism, Zeno's paradoxes, and the editing process in poetry.

Franny Choi discusses the resilience of marginalized communities in poetry. Billy Collins explores the power of very short poems in his collection. They delve into the impact of non-verbal elements and the intensity of emotions conveyed through brevity. They also touch on the challenges of being a poet laureate and the joy of creativity.

Billy Collins, a poet and speaker, discusses various academic words and their meanings, such as signing advice, dietary, and allowance. The podcast explores the connection between animation and poetry, delves into definitions of 'unnatural' and 'unnecessary', and highlights the role of statistics in cancer research. It also covers vocabulary words like laureate, hire, animate, and initially. Furthermore, the podcast provides definitions and examples of words such as resistant, disastrous, verbal, and influential. It covers a wide range of academic vocabulary, including words related to power, impact, food, advertising, geographical features, and music composition.