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Poems for the Speed of Life is a podcast to bring the power of poetry to your day.
Each episode includes a reading of a one poem, some thoughts and ideas, and an invitation to allow it to speak to you however it does.
Poetry is a vital exploration of the world, of ourselves, of ourselves in the world.
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Ep. 212: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly
Today’s poem is “Begin” by Brendan Kennelly, the much-loved Irish poet who died in 2021 at the age of 85.
It is a poem about the beauty in the awareness of the ordinary precious world around us, and also about the foreverness, the sense of the eternal that comes through all endings and finality and loss.
For full show notes for this episode, visit the episode page on Substack.
Thank you for joining me for this series.
Join me over on Substack to keep in touch with the show as we move forward.
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Ep. 211: "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove
Today's poem is "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove, the former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner.
You can read the full show notes and join the community over on Substack here.
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Ep. 210: Three Cantos from "In Memoriam AHH" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Today's episode brings you three of the Cantos from "In Memoriam AHH" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written over 16 years and published in 1850.
You can read the full show notes and join the community over on Substack here.
The full text of the poem is available here.
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Ep. 209: "The birthday of the world" by Marge Piercy
Today’s poem is "The birthday of the world" by Marge Piercy, an American writer, poet and activist who has published more than 20 collections of poetry spanning more than 50 years.
This is Episode 9 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
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Ep. 208: "The Fisherman", by WB Yeats
Today’s poem is "The Fisherman", by WB Yeats, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who died in 1939.
This is Episode 8 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
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Ep. 207: "This is not the end" by Tanner Olson
Today’s poem is "This is not the end" by Tanner Olson, an American poet based in Tennessee.
This is Episode 7 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
You can read today's poem here