Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Frank explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Nuff said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Series 9 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 10th January. See you there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is it a man? Is it a moth? Frank has a strange night out with Elizabeth Bishop. The poem referenced is 'The Man-Moth'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank indulges his obsession with the Anglo Saxons as he reads Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast as they explore the life and work of Robert Browning, famous poet and author of 'My Last Duchess' and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'. Delve into Browning's unique style and ability to captivate readers with his narratives. Analyze the opening lines and form of 'My Last Duchess'. Uncover the intrigue of 'Pandolf' and the speaker's power and control over it. Analyze the use of enjambment in Browning's monologue and the refusal to blame. Explore the clever presentation of the monologue in 'Master of the Count's Daughter' and the theme of possession and control. Discover the inspiration behind 'My Last Duchess' and the rumors surrounding its biographical elements.

Nature gets horny and reflective. Frank is excited about the poetry of Jean Sprackland. The collection referenced is 'Green Noise'. The poem referenced is 'April' and the sequence referenced is 'The Lost Villages'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank Skinner discusses statues and statutes with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the renowned romantic poet and essayist. They explore Shelley's unpublished poem, unconventional distribution methods, the structure of the sonnet, the need for reform in Parliament, and the power of poetry in resurrecting England. They also contemplate the decay of power through the vandalism of statues and the lasting influence of Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias'.

Frank howls at the moon with Sylvia Plath. The poems referenced are 'The Moon and the Yew Tree' and 'Ariel. TW: mentions of suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank celebrates the razor-sharp poetic mind of Don Paterson. The poem referenced is 'Rain'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a renowned Victorian poet, discusses the challenges of being a mother, poet, and revolutionary. Topics include her secret marriage, use of opium-based medicine, interest in Italian politics, and the themes of anger and grief in her poem 'Mother and Poet'.