"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
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"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
"An Eagle for an Emperor" with Talon Knight and Terri Casey
A Lovely Wallpaper
30 minutes 43 seconds
10 months ago
"An Eagle for an Emperor" with Talon Knight and Terri Casey
In this episode, Abby interviews Talon Knight aka Robert Shallow, about falconry, owls, and the SoCal Renaissance Faire. Terri Casey, director of the Queen’s Court, joins in to read “An Eagle for an Emperor” by Dame Juliana Berners. Recitation begins at 24:06.
An Eagle for an Emperor Dame Juliana Berners
An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King, a Peregrine for a Prince, a Saker for a Knight, a Merlin for a Lady, a Goshawk for a Yeoman, a Sparrowhawk for a Priest, a Musket for a Holy water Clerk, a Kestrel for a Knave.
A Lovely Wallpaper
"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
