A podcast that does its best to know something about poetry, and fails.
Not Knowing About Poetry
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A podcast that does its best to know something about poetry, and fails.
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January 16, 2022
Season 2, Episode 4: Roger Christofides on George Seferis and Shakespeare
<p>Roger Christofides discusses 'Neofitos Engleistos Speaks' (1953) by George Seferis, in connection with Shakespeare's play Othello. Roger is a Shakespeare scholar with a book on Othello that you can buy here - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/R-M-Huddersfield-University-UK-Christofides/Othellos-Secret--The-Cyprus-Problem/18893065 . </p> <p>''Neofitos Engleistos Speaks' is not included in the major translations of Seferis' works. A translation by John Stathatos (first printed in Labrys 8, 1983) is included below. You can find the Greek text here - https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/literature/tools/concordance/browse.html?cnd_id=1&text_id=3183 .</p> <p><br></p> <p><u>Neofitos Engleistos Speaks</u></p> <p>…. as for king Isaac, he imprisoned him in the castle known as Marcappo. And as for his colleague Saladin, the rogue took no action against him, but instead sold the country to the Latins for twelve hundred measures of gold. Which was the cause of great lamentation, and as foretold, the smoke coming from the north became unbearable… (Neofitos the Monk, Concerning the Wrongs done to the Land of Cyprus)</p> <p>Overbearing structures; Hilarion Famagusta Bufavento; mere backdrops</p> <p>hardly how we used to conceive of that ‘Jesus Christ Triumphs’</p> <p>once seen above the walls of the Imperial City, now pocked with weeds and hovels</p> <p>and the great towers cast down like some defeated giant’s dice.</p> <p>It had meant something else to us, this war for Christ’s faith</p> <p>and for man’s soul cradled by Our Lady of Victories</p> <p>her eyes holding the anguish of the Greeks like a mosaic,</p> <p>the anguish of that sea at the approach of kindness.</p> <p>What if they strut their Lusignan melodramas against crusader backdrops</p> <p>while we gag on the smoke from northern torches.</p> <p>Let them hack at each other, beating the wind like a galley before the storm.</p> <p>You are welcome to Cyprus, Lords. Goats and monkeys!</p>
January 16, 2022
Season 2, Episode 3: Callie Gardner on June Jordan and Shakespeare
<p>Callie was an inspirational conversationalist when this podcast started during lockdown, thanks to their unforced enthusiasm, extraordinary depth of knowledge, and consistently perceptive interpretations. In this episode you will hear them discuss June Jordan's ‘Shakespeare’s 116th sonnet in Black English Translation’. The recording was made on June 24th, 2021. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Don’t let me mess up partner happiness </p> <p>because the trouble </p> <p>start </p> <p>An’ I ain’ got the heart </p> <p>to deal! </p> <p>That won’t be real </p> <p>(about love) </p> <p>if I</p> <p>(push come to shove) </p> <p>just punk </p> <p><br></p> <p>Not hardly! Hey: </p> <p>Love do not cooperate </p> <p>with cop-out </p> <p>provocations: No! </p> <p><br></p> <p>Storm come, storm go</p> <p>Away</p> <p>but love stay </p> <p>steady </p> <p>(if you ready or </p> <p>you not!) </p> <p>True love stay </p> <p>steady </p> <p>True love stay </p> <p>hot! </p> <p><br></p>
January 16, 2022
Season 2, Episode 2: Mau Baiocco on Emily Critchley, Eric Langley, and Shakespeare
<p>Mau discusses Critchley and Langley's pamphlet These. Insuing. Sonnets (Crater Press, 2018) and Shakespeare's sonnets. </p>
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