Mark Ford and Seamus Perry follow on from their ‘revolutionary ☆☆☆☆☆’ (The Times) series on 'Modern-ish Poets' , to look at long poems and the short stories in 19th- and 20th-century literature. Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford. 'The Long and Short' is part of the Close Readings podcast from the London Review of Books. Non-subscribers will only hear extracts from the episodes. To listen in full, and to all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
The Long and Short
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Mark Ford and Seamus Perry follow on from their ‘revolutionary ☆☆☆☆☆’ (The Times) series on 'Modern-ish Poets' , to look at long poems and the short stories in 19th- and 20th-century literature. Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford. 'The Long and Short' is part of the Close Readings podcast from the London Review of Books. Non-subscribers will only hear extracts from the episodes. To listen in full, and to all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
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December 24, 2023
The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen's short stories
In the final episode of the Long and Short, we turn to Elizabeth Bowen, widely considered one of the finest writers of the short story. Mark and Seamus unpack ‘the Bowen effect’ and her singularly haunting style: subtle social commentary cut through with humour, and occasionally outright romanticism. A culmination of the short fiction explored in this series, Bowen’s work proves that life ‘with the lid on’ can be just as exhilarating, moving and funny as any sensationalist story. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod Stories discussed in this episode: ‘The Parrot’ ‘Joining Charles’ ‘The Needlecase’ ‘Mysterious Kôr’ ‘The Demon Lover’ Further reading in the LRB: John Bayley David Trotter Tessa Hadley Sean O'Faolain
November 24, 2023
The Long and Short: Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’
The eleventh episode of the Long and Short brings us to the present day and the distant past, as we turn to two multivocal, monumental poems by Alice Oswald. The dazzlingly polyphonic Dart (2002) celebrates the voices of the river Dart, and the people, animals and supernatural forces entwined with it. Memorial (2011) translates and transfigures the Iliad, stripping back the narrative to reveal the epic’s ‘bright unbearable reality’. Mark and Seamus explore the thematic throughlines in Oswald’s work, unpicking allusions and influences at play in these poems. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod Further reading in the LRB: Colin Burrow: On Alice Oswald Aingeal Clare: Outcanoeuvre Ange Mlinko: Good Jar, Bad Jar Alice Oswald: Two Poems
October 23, 2023
Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'
In the tenth episode of the series, Seamus and Mark turn to two figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nella Larsen’s Passing is a taut, tense and tartly stylish take on the Jamesian short story, redolent with ironies and ambiguities, that feels just as relevant today. Widely considered his masterwork, Langston Hughes’s ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ draws on the modernist tradition, a documentarian sensibility and the freedoms of bebop to capture the multiplicity of Harlem voices. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod Further reading in the LRB: Amber Medland: They Roared with Laughter Lewis Nkosi: An Unamerican in New York James Campbell: White Lies Joanna Biggs: What She Wasn't
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