Reminiscence Voice

An introduction to the poet, his life and how his experiences influenced his work. 

James Berry reads Empire Day. 

James Berry discusses language and reads ‘Englan Voice’. 

<p>Australia's storyteller in song on the poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and learning great poetry has changed his songwriting (R)</p> 

Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet. 

Can you find beauty in simple things? Spotlight tells about a U.S. poet who wrote beautiful poems about normal things. 

First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis. 

<p>This lesson is an introduction to one of Iran's most lauded modern poets, Forough Farrokhzad. An extremely influential voice in a time of great change in Iran, she wrote about the nature of being an artist and an independent woman in a society that often did not make these pur ... Show More

The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer. 

Introduction 

Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)C.K. Williams' Collected Poems covers a lifetime's concern with ethics and personal morality. As his work proceeds, he develops a quality of consciousness and empathy that some would describe as a soul. In this conversation, this accessibl ... Show More

Poetry. 

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