Episode 8 Belloc and Burton - two poems.
In this episode I compare two poems in the comic/surreal tradition of warning poems for children, one by Hilaire Belloc and one by Tim Burton. For mor...
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Episode 7 - I walk the Line. Phrases where careful actions are represented as careful motion
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Episode Six - Haiku in English
Haiku in English - including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Hass and John Cooper Clark. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit www.u...
Episode 5 - Words and nonsense, Professor Branestawm, Lewis Carroll and TS Eliot
Words can mean different things depending on how they are heard, seen or read. Norman Hunter, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare and TS Eliot provide some exa...
Reflections on the poem 'To Any Reader' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
TO ANY READER As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will look Through the windows of this book...
Episode 3 - Poems, songs and topsy-turvy words
Some thoughts on the relationship poetry and song and a look at how and why expressions like goody-goody, topsy-turvy and hanky-panky are used.
Episode 2 - 'The Circuit' by Francisco Jimenez and meanings of the word 'spell'
In this week's podcast I'll talk about a short story by Francisco Jimenez, a Mexican American writer. The story is set in the early 1950's and describ...