Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Frank meets Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott and finds out why Camelot is a bit of a lottery. The poems referenced are The Charge Of The Light Brigade and The Lady Of Shalott both by Tennyson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drunken nights and floppy discs - Frank gets excited about the poetry of Leontia Flynn. The collection referenced is Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn and the individual poems referenced are Anecdote and The Floppy Disk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank explains why the first poetry book he ever bought, The Mersey Sound, changed his life forever. The poems referenced are Without You and The New ‘Our Times’ by Adrian Henri, Where Are You Now, Batman, Party Piece and After Breakfast by Brian Patten, and On Picnics, Café Portraits and Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Series 5 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast coming very soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank shares a cold, sad Sunday morning with Robert Hayden. The poems referenced are Those Winter Sundays and The Whipping by Robert Hayden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank explores the poetic treasure-trove that is Michael Symmons Roberts’ collection, Drysalter. The poems referenced are Face to Face, Through a Glass Darkly and Discoverers by Michael Symmons Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wordsworth revisited: the leech-gatherer. The poem referenced is Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank loves Nick Laird’s poetry. And manual typewriters. The collection referenced is On Purpose by Nick Laird and the poem referenced is The Underwood No. 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank loves Walt Whitman, right down to his comfortable shoes… The poems referenced are Poets to Come, To You, Song of the Universal and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank heads North with the amazing Jen Hadfield. The collection referenced is The Stone Age by Jen Hadfield. The individual poems referenced are Hardanger Fiddle & Nyckelharpa, (Lighthouse) and (Erratic) by Jen Hadfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices