99 episodes
Poetry Off the Shelf Poetry Foundation
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4.4 • 27 Ratings
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Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.
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Ecology of Love
Camille Dungy on her garden, writing from the provinces, and the poetry of Anne Spencer.
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Good For the World
Dorothea Lasky on The Shining, writing what you fear, and the ferocity of color.
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A Stone Worth Addressing
Merlin Sheldrake on fungi, creativity, and the queerness of nature.
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Style All the Way Down
Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal.
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The Fire in Which We Burn
Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief.
Customer Reviews
Love this podcast
Found in the pandemic and love this podcast so much. Have had many great poets I didn’t know brought to my attention and love Helena’s voice and style of conversation with the poets.
Lots of deep insights into the work and poets themselves.
Totally addictive listening, I listen to it every week if I can.
Unsubscribed
I actually love this podcast but I can’t stay subscribed to anything produced by Poetry Foundation due to their stance on the Gaza genocide. If poetry isn’t for truth and protest then what is it?
this is my favourite podcast
this is the only podcast that i come back to religiously to listen to each new episode. like other reviewers, i listen to this podcast when trying to sleep, and it’s always comforting. helena connects with each poet on such a rich level, and she gives them space to unfold with such compassion and grace. i have laughed and cried throughout the episodes and i have learnt so much. it’s such a treasure to have access to poetry, to be able to hear it spoken by the poets, and to be a witness to their inner worlds. so thank you, i will always be grateful for this podcast!
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