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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

  1. -3 J

    John Clare and the Madness of Poets

    Read this episode on Substack and subscribe! Text of poem Topics discussed include: -Plato's "Ion" -The Muses and Schizophrenia -Poets must be weirdos -The normies are the willing slaves of the mad -Lewis's trilemma -The American Confessionals and the French Decadents -The Wild 18th century -Go read William Cowper's "The Task!" -Samuel Johnson, Richard Savage, William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Blake, Friederich Holderlin, The Marquis de Sade -Jubilate Agno, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomson's The Seasons, Tristram Shandy -The man who thought he was Byron -"I Am" by John Clare -Vers libre vs. verse libere -"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold -The Masque of the Red Death -Et in Arcadia Ego Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok:  @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight  Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet:  Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    27 min

  2. 15 MARS

    "The Night Mirror" by John Hollander

    Read this episode (and the poem) on Substack! Topics discussed include: -Going to Oaxaca! -"Poetry and Music" and "Rhyme's Reason" by John Hollander -My Nemerov episode -My Donaghy episode -Jacques Lacan and the "mirror phase" -The nightmare of the self vs. the nightmare of the unconscious -The survival of Romanticism  Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    18 min

  3. 1 MARS

    Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney

    Read this essay on Substack!  Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo." Topics mentioned: -Poetry careerism in the 21st century -"The Iron Lyre" -The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet -Heaney's bog poems -The value of exposure to death -Rural vs. Urban morality -"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" by Robert Frost -Piscine Christianity -"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop -My Yucatan travelogue -My most recent Sleerickets appearance Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    29 min

  4. 16 FÉVR.

    The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas

    Read this essay and support the show on Substack!  Topics discussed in this episode include: R.S. Thomas's poems: -Mediations -Kneeling -Via Negativa -The Absence -Revision -Ernest Hilbert -Alexander Fayne's essay on R.S. Thomas -Pascal's "Night of Fire" -Apophatic theology  -John Scotus Erigena, Philo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Weil, etc.  -Keats's "Ode On A Grecian Urn" -Milton's "On His Blindness"  Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    25 min

  5. 29 JANV.

    The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells

    Read this episode in essay form here!  Topics discussed in this episode include: -The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis, Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer -My Interview with Dick Davis -The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, etc. -Virgil's Georgics -The Idylls of Theocritus -Wells poems discussed: "A Caution," "Deus Loci," "The Unnamed Pool," "The Bathing Place," "The Last of Summer." -Episodes on the pathetic fallacy here and here -Apophasis -"Le Cimetiere Marin" by Paul Valery -"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters -Sensory deprivation tanks -Mysticism vs. Love Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    24 min

  6. 14 JANV.

    "Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell

    Read the poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include: -Transcending the smallness of one's time -The Flaming Terrapin -The Voorslag Affair -Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face -Ambivalent stanzas -The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot -"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens -"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -"The Whiteness of the Whale" by Herman Melville -A Nietzschean response to apocalypse Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    30 min

  7. 1 JANV.

    10 Poems I Like Part IV

    Read the episode on Substack here Poems discussed in this episode: "Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee" by Emily Bronte "Cargoes" by John Masefield "From Stone to Steel" by E.J. Pratt "The Hill" by Rupert Brooke "When the Ecstatic Body Grips" by E.R. Dodds "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees "Poetry and Religion" by Les Murray "Soul" by Alan Shapiro "Where the River Meets the Sound" by Suzanne Doyle "Clear Water" by Catherine Tufariello Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    37 min

  8. 30/11/2025

    "Root Words" by Forester McClatchey

    -Read the poem... by pre-ordering Forester’s new collection here!  -Or here, on Substack!  -The Versecraft Substack -My annus mirabilis -Forester McClatchey!  -Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -Renovating the sonnet-house -Mycorrhizal intelligence -Is the pathos fallacious?  -A thinking cheese for the thinking man -The ents at the entmoot -My recent episode on Sleerickets with Alice -Cosmic double-consciousness -Dark circles of eternity and oblivion Support the show VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

    19 min
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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

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  • Création
    Elijah Perseus Blumov
  • Années d’activité
    2022 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    117
  • Classification
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    © 2026 Versecraft
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