Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

I stumbled on Frank Skinner’s poetry podcast after searching for Beat poetry. As an American I had no idea who Frank Skinner was (apologies from across the pond!), but immediately I was struck by his discerning eye (and ear) for the poem within Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra.” … Many people look at the rhythm of a poem, others the meaning, some the syntax and the form. Frank Skinner illuminates the all this and also the pulsating soul within each poem. I’ve learned from him that a poem (no matter how old) is a living world unto itself, and the more time spent pondering it, the more fruit it yields; just as a fruit tree may take time to flower and fruit, a (great) poem may do the same. Thanks for this absolutely brilliant podcast!

Stifling

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I read a lot of poetry. And I love some of it, and I hate some of it. I listen to Frank talk about the poetry he loves, and I love it. Even the poetry he reads and talks about that I don’t especially like turns into excellent talk about craft and meaning and value and his enthusiasm becomes my enthusiasm and I end up in love with the poet he features and with poetry in general for the power it has to make a person react the way Frank reacts. Know what I mean?