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Featuring interviews with authors, actors and academics, Ear Read This creates well-researched critical introductions to vintage and modern classics. Specialties include: Shakespeare, Arthurian literature and books from or about our home city of Edinburgh.

Ear Read This Ash Caton

    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 19 Ratings

Featuring interviews with authors, actors and academics, Ear Read This creates well-researched critical introductions to vintage and modern classics. Specialties include: Shakespeare, Arthurian literature and books from or about our home city of Edinburgh.

    ‘Kookaburra’ (1998) by Frieda Hughes

    ‘Kookaburra’ (1998) by Frieda Hughes

    S3E96 On today's episode, Ash looks at a poem from Frieda Hughes' debut collection, Wooroloo, discussing Hughes' longstanding connection with birds, and how 'Kookaburra' relates to the poetry of her parents, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. 
     
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    • 19 min
    ‘Address to Edinburgh’ (1786) by Robert Burns

    ‘Address to Edinburgh’ (1786) by Robert Burns

    S3E95 A belated Burns Night celebration, featuring one of Burns' lesser liked poems. But one of the only poems to inspire a toilet seat. Tune in for an exploration of Burns' time in Edinburgh, the Enlightenment's paradoxical attitude to Scottishness, and lots of rhyme-whining. 
     
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    • 31 min
    “Ominous Whoosh”: John Thorne on Twin Peaks

    “Ominous Whoosh”: John Thorne on Twin Peaks

    S3E94 As a Halloween treat, Ash talks with the author of Ominous Whoosh: A Wandering Mind Returns to Twin Peaks, John Thorne. Tune in for a in-depth conversation about Twin Peaks with one of the leading scholars of the show. Follow John on Twitter here: @thornewipAnd purchase Ominous Whoosh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ominous-Whoosh-Wandering-Returns-Peaks-ebook/dp/B0BCNXTCLJhttp://www.patriciagrisafi.com/about-1
     
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    “Plath’s Not a Phase”: Trish Grisafi on Breaking Down Plath

    “Plath’s Not a Phase”: Trish Grisafi on Breaking Down Plath

    S3E93 Ash is again joined by Trish Grisafi to talk about her book Breaking Down Plath as well as Plath's relationship with feminism, the changing reputation of Plath and the "Plath phase". Follow Trish on Twitter here: @PatriciaGrisafiAnd visit her website: http://www.patriciagrisafi.com/about-1
     
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    • 19 min
    ‘Stings’ (1962) by Sylvia Plath

    ‘Stings’ (1962) by Sylvia Plath

    S3E92 Ash is joined by Patricia Grisafi to discuss 'Stings' by Sylvia Plath, the third poem in her Bee Sequence. Tune in for a conversation about red comets, queen bees, and scapegoats.Follow Trish on Twitter here: @PatriciaGrisafiAnd visit her website: http://www.patriciagrisafi.com/about-1
     
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    • 1 hr 2 min
    “I Felt Like I Was Cheating on Plath”: Peter K. Steinberg on the Writings of Assia Wevill

    “I Felt Like I Was Cheating on Plath”: Peter K. Steinberg on the Writings of Assia Wevill

    S3E91 On today's extended interview, Ash talks some more to Peter K. Steinberg, about his work as co-editor of the Collected Letters of Sylvia Plath and The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill.Follow Peter on Twitter here: @sylviaplathinfoAnd visit his website https://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com/
     
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    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
19 Ratings

19 Ratings

jaky224 ,

I enjoyed the show!

Thank you for all the insights, I love to learn from you!

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Awesome show!

Love your show. So many great tips!

Jersey City Frankie ,

Best literary review podcast, and funny

Podcasts have democratized broadcasting in a way that allows people passionate about a subject a voice anyone can hear. These two deserve to be heard and upon hearing them you’ll be grateful for their passion and humor.

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