Beetroot, Lists with Wendy Cope and Claes Oldenburg Beetroot Podcast

Today we’re going to talk about what’s on our lists and what’s in our poems. When we make lists, we export our universes onto the page – ticking off the tasks as we go, as we live. Lists for love, lists for art, and lists for getting through the day. Lottie brought along Wendy Cope’s ‘My Lover’ written in the style of Christopher Smart’s ‘For I Will Consider my Cat Geoffrey’ more than two hundred years later. Cope writes of love, the everyday kind and the sweep you off your feet kind – but always in tandem. Marta brought along Claes Oldenburg’s ‘I am for an Art’, a stirring manifesto for artists everywhere and a new way to think on what our art deserves and what deserves our art. Put this episode at the top of your to do list.