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Waterskiing on Poetry - Waving hello to poems and poets with Neil Elder
Neil Elder
9 episodes
3 hours ago
A light-touch exploration of poems and poetry with Neil Elder, long-time English teacher and prize-winning poet. Taking inspiration from the Billy Collins poem, 'An Introduction To Poetry', Neil puts poems alongside each other to see how life looks when seen through the lenses of different poets. There will be poems everyone knows, and plenty that are new to listeners. Not heavy, but certainly illuminating.
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A light-touch exploration of poems and poetry with Neil Elder, long-time English teacher and prize-winning poet. Taking inspiration from the Billy Collins poem, 'An Introduction To Poetry', Neil puts poems alongside each other to see how life looks when seen through the lenses of different poets. There will be poems everyone knows, and plenty that are new to listeners. Not heavy, but certainly illuminating.
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Episode 6. Past, Present, Future? Edward Thomas with 'Old Man' and 'Blueberries' by James Lasdun
Waterskiing on Poetry - Waving hello to poems and poets with Neil Elder
26 minutes 56 seconds
1 month ago
Episode 6. Past, Present, Future? Edward Thomas with 'Old Man' and 'Blueberries' by James Lasdun

Today Neil goes waterskiing across the past, future and present with 'Old Man' by Edward Thomas and 'Blueberries' by James Lasdun. Thoughts about our early memories, and also the question "Where will you be in twenty years?" are brought to the surface in these time-bending poems.

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Find the poems here -

Edward Thomas, Old Man https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57210/old-man-56d23a7a628f2

James Lasdun, Blueberries https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89519/blueberries

Waterskiing on Poetry - Waving hello to poems and poets with Neil Elder
A light-touch exploration of poems and poetry with Neil Elder, long-time English teacher and prize-winning poet. Taking inspiration from the Billy Collins poem, 'An Introduction To Poetry', Neil puts poems alongside each other to see how life looks when seen through the lenses of different poets. There will be poems everyone knows, and plenty that are new to listeners. Not heavy, but certainly illuminating.