Pelé's Poetry Podcast

Pele Cox & Rich Uridge
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Thought-provoking and wide-ranging conversations on poetry with the poet Pelé Cox and journalist Rich Uridge. Erudition for your ears.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 9 - Can poetry make you happy?

    Choosing John Clare, John Keats, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath to explore whether poetry can make you happy isn’t an obvious starting point. All four experienced the very opposite of happiness in their variously and famously tragic lives. So perhaps it was a trick question? But maybe, on reflection, it’s the perfect choice. Make up […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 9 – Can Poetry Make You Happy? appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    33 min

  2. May 14

    Episode 8 - Forbidden Love

    Great art begets great art. That’s certainly the case with the Greek poet, Constantine P Cavafy, whose poetry inspired a young British artist – now a household name – as Pele Cox and Rich Uridge reveal as they explore forbidden love as a source of inspiration for poets from Gunn to Whitman. Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 8 – Forbidden Love appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    27 min

  3. Apr 30

    Episode 7 - the A E Housman Shropshire Lad one

    On the 90th anniversary of his death, Shropshire lad, Richard Uridge and Shropshire lass, Pele Cox, discuss the life and works of the poet, A E Housman. They agree that his poetry is every bit as relevant today as when it was first written at the turn of the 20th century. And they discover that […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 7 – The A E Housman Shropshire Lad one appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    26 min

  4. Feb 23

    Episode 6- the Wuthering Heights one

    With Margot Robbie as Cathy in the latest iteration of Wuthering Heights, your hosts argue that without poetry Emily Brontë’s book wouldn’t have been written. So no roles for Robbie and her Heathcliff, Jacob Elordi. No Kate Bush song. No poems of the same name by Sylvia Plath or Ted Hughes. The evidence? Well, Pele […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 6 – The Wuthering Heights one appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    30 min

  5. Feb 13

    Episode 5 - the St Valentine's Day one

    Who first wrote roses are red, violets are blue, honey is sweet and so are you? Who were the lines written for? And when? Plus is poetry the language of love? Just some of the questions Pele Cox and Rich Uridge answer in this special lovers’ edition. Oh and which poet would you take to […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 5 – The Saint Valentine’s Day one appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    35 min

  6. Feb 4

    Episode 4 - finding your poetic voice

    What is poetic voice? Is it synonymous with style? Or something else? Perhaps the poet’s “take” on the world? Pele Cox and Rich Uridge seek answers from a range of greats including Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay and Vernon Watkins who, with a drunken Dylan Thomas, tripped over a feather! Poets Further reading You can hear […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 4 – Finding your voice appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    37 min

  7. Jan 19

    Episode 3 - what's the point of poetry?

    Pele Cox and her co-host Rich Uridge ask: what is the purpose of poetry? With the help of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Thomas Wyatt, they conclude that, in part, poetry’s job is to move readers to virtuous action or “well doing and not well knowing only” as Sidney put it.      Along […] The post Pelé’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 – What is poetry’s purpose? appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    34 min

  8. Jan 15

    Episode 2 - the poetry of shock

    Poet Pele Cox and journalist Rich Uridge discuss the differences between poetry and journalism. With the help of Ted Hughes and his Birthday Letters they talk about how poetry can tackle shocking subject matter in a way that prose alone cannot. Rich talks about writing his own shocking experience.       Plus poetry as a portal to […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 2 – The poetry of shock appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    37 min

  9. Jan 14

    Episode 1 - time to unpack

    The first in a series in which the poet Pelé Cox and her pupil, the former journalist Rich Uridge, discuss poetry as a tool for a creative life. They explore the differences between writing news reports and writing poetry with the help of another journalist – Dylan Thomas and his poem Fern Hill.       Plus why […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 1 – Time to unpack appeared first on Pelé Cox.

    31 min
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