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, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
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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 June 2021.
Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB:
Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod
Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod
Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod
Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod
Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod
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