podcasts - 2. the impurity of poetry


The second in my series of podcasts is a little over 13 minutes long. It examines how impurity is a good thing for poetry.

Most of the material is my own, but I do need to acknowledge some sources here:

The joke at the beginning is adapted from one by Allan Wolf at allanwolf.com, here.

John Hollander is quoted from the preface to the 1989 Columbia University Press edition of John Thompson's The Founding of English Metre.

Bob Cobbing is quoted from Lion, Lenin, Leonora, Lamb from the book Sockless in Sandals published by Cardiff's Second Aeon Publication in 1985. It's available online here.

Finally, Andrew Motion's The Sorcerer's Mirror was printed in the Guardian Review on Saturday 26 September 2009. It's available online here.

Podcast 3 coming shortly took less time to write than today's. It deals with the subject of acrophobia - the fear of heights.

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