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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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.
To listen to the first series of Modern-ish Poets, and to Seamus and Mark's twelve-part series The Long and Short, sign up to the Close Readings subscription:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings
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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.
To listen to this series ad free and to series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, sign up here:
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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
Ian Sansom: https://lrb.me/sansomwalcottpod
Nicholas Everett: https://lrb.me/everettwalcottpod
Stephen Brook: https://lrb.me/brookwalcottpod
Blake Morrison: https://lrb.me/morrisonwalcottpod
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