Jun 5

Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"

Today’s poem is all about the correlation between the elaborate architecture of a lie and the pleasure that telling it can give. Maybe an allegory for art? Maybe a playful confession? Maybe a political commentary? Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss ... Show More

4m 28s

Jun 3

A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"

Today’s poem is about the strange whys and ways of trying to endure in this world. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

4m 32s

Jun 1

John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece

Today’s poem is an open-ended sonnet-versation (sonnet conversation) between youth and experience–with the rarer twist that the dynamic is here presented in the context of a potential romance. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subsc ... Show More

6m 37s

Sep 2023

549 Forgotten Women of Literature 7 - Ursula Parrott (with Marsha Gordon)

Hardly anyone knows Ursula Parrott today, but not long ago she was close to being a household name. As a bestselling novelist of the Roaring Twenties and beyond, Parrott's life was filled with literature, celebrity, and scandal. In this episode, Jacke talks to Parrott's biographe ... Show More

1h 3m

Jun 2020

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern)

In the autumn of 1902, a young man attending a German military school wrote to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to ask him for some advice. Rilke responded, and the two struck up a correspondence that has become one of the great moments in the history of literature. For more than a ce ... Show More

1h 28m

Oct 2024

Merve Emre on Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the writer, critic, and author, Merve Emre. Currently the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University – and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism – ... Show More

49m 21s

Nov 2024

Harriet Constable in “les Rencontres” — CHANEL Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon

<p>Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Harriet Constable, writer of “The Instrumentalist”, her first novel published by Bloomsbury in 2024, in which she retraces the story of musical prodigy Anna Maria della Pietà, student of Antonio Vivaldi. Through thi ... Show More

39m 45s

Sep 2024

Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper

Dame Jacqueline Wilson talks about Think Again, the long-awaited adult novel which is the sequel to her much-loved Girls series of books. Actors Alexandra Roach and Joe Cole discuss their roles in BBC One's latest Sunday night drama series Nightsleeper, a thriller in which a nigh ... Show More

42m 26s

Dec 2024

Danielle Chapman — Trespassing with Tweens

Wonder and strangeness commingle with the commonplace and universal in Danielle Chapman’s “Trespassing with Tweens.” In a not-quite mirroring, a human mother and her children stand and watch together in awe as a great blue heron flaps in and feeds its two offspring. The pleasures ... Show More

16m 7s

Feb 2025

Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

<p>Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven book ... Show More

1h 7m

Sep 2024

David Mitchell on Ludwig, poet Kathleen Jamie and the world premiere of Helen Grime's Folk

Poet Kathleen Jamie, whose tenure as Scotland's Makar, or National Poet, recently came to an end, talks about her new collection of poems written in Scots, The Keelie Hawk. Composer Helen Grime, soprano Claire Booth and author Zoe Gilbert chat about the world premiere of Folk, an ... Show More

42m 23s

Aug 2024

Political Poems: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones

‘Goblin Market’ was the title poem of Christina Rossetti’s first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it, modern readers have found it hard to resist political interpretations. The poem’s most obvious preoccupation seems to be the Vic ... Show More

58m 7s

Aug 2024

628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki

Is it really true? Did the Elizabethan poet Emilia Bassano (sometimes known as Aemelia Lanyer) actually write Shakespeare's works? A bestselling novelist thinks so - and she's turned her research-based theories into an entertaining and thought-provoking work of fiction. In this e ... Show More

1h 4m

Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by ...