Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London.
Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books.
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On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by considering how revolutionary the poem was, the numerous meanings that have been drawn out of it, and its lasting influence.
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Further reading on Eliot in the LRB:
Frank Kermode: https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod (https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod)
Dan Jacobson: https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod (https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod)
Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod (https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod)
Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod (https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod)
Terry Eagleton: https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod (https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod)
Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2022.
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9 Jun 2024
Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB:
C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod (https://lrb.me/steadashberypod)
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod (https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod)
Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod (https://lrb.me/burtashberypod)
John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod (https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod)
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022.
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8 Jun 2024
Charlotte Mew
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters.
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Further reading on Mew in the LRB:
Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod (https://lrb.me/bevismewpod)
Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod (https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod)
Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod (https://lrb.me/clappmewpod)
Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.
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7 Jun 2024
W. B. Yeats
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
Read more in the LRB:
Seamus Deane: https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod (https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod)
Michael Wood: https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod (https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod)
Colm Tóibín: https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod (https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod)
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021.
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6 Jun 2024
Emily Dickinson
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2021.
Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB:
Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod (https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod)
Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod (https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod)
Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod (https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod)
Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod (https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod)
Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod (https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod)
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5 Jun 2024
Derek Walcott
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by an oceanic consciousness, whose writing recognises at once the terrible gulfs between peoples and our common predicament.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2021.
Further reading on and by Walcott in the LRB:
'Militia' by Derek Walcott: https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod (https://lrb.me/walcottmilitiapod)
Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod (https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod)
Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod (https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod)
Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod (https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod)
Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod (https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod)
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4 Jun 2024
Louis MacNeice
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fourth episode of series two of Modern-ish Poets.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in November 2020.
Further reading on MacNiece in the LRB:
Ian Hamilton: https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod (https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod)
John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod (https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod)
Marilyn Butler: https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod (https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod)
Nick Laird: https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod (https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod)
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3 Jun 2024
Adrienne Rich
In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in September 2020.
Further reading on Rich in the LRB:
Jacqueline Rose: https://lrb.me/roserichpod (https://lrb.me/roserichpod)
Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtrichpod (https://lrb.me/burtrichpod)
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2 Jun 2024
Robert Frost
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in August 2020.
Further reading on Frost in the LRB:
Leo Marx: https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod (https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod)
Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod (https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod)
Peter Howarth: https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod (https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod)
Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod (https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod)
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1 Jun 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins
In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.
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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
Further reading on Hopkins in the LRB:
Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod (https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod)
Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod (https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod)
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod (https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod)
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020.
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