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Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is produced by Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production.

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Frank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenced are ‘Personal Helicon’ from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘Limbo’ by Seamus Heaney.
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Seamus Heaney

Frank and the poet, Wislawa Szymborska, discover how many people actually like poetry. The poems referenced are ‘Plato, or Why’ and ‘Some Like Poetry’ by Wislawa Szymborska.
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Wislawa Szymborska

Frank and the poet, Craig Raine, explore a disused botanical garden. The poems referenced are ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’, ‘Listen With Mother’ and ‘The Old Botanical Gardens’ by Craig Raine.
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Craig Raine

Frank is very moved by what the poet, Mona Van Duyn, can do with an eraser. The poem referenced is ‘The Creation’ by Mona Van Duyn.
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Mona Van Duyn

Absolute Radio presenter and comedian Frank Skinner talks about poems “like I talk about football” in his new podcast.
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Frank Skinner delves into Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', and William Carlos Williams' 'Dance Russe'. There will be no guests, just Frank exploring different poems every week.
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Stevie Smith and William Carlos Williams

Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets – a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed ‘spontaneous writing’, and won over Frank in a school assembly.
Poems referenced include:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During Eternity
Gregory Corso - Man About to Enter Sea
Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra
William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – He
Plus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a poem too.
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The Beat Poets

Frank Skinner takes us on a guided tour of Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’.
Poems Referenced:
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) - The Lay of Saint Cuthbert
From Donna Stonecipher’s ‘Model City’:
Number 8
Number 47
Number 19
Number 14
Number 69
Number 51
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Donna Stonecipher

Frank tells how Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ gave him a massive panic attack.
Poems referenced:
Philip Larkin – Wild Oats
Philip Larkin - Dockery and Son
Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
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Philip Larkin

Frank is often attracted to a poem by its title. This week he discusses 'Famous Bigshots' by Caroline Knox.
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Caroline Knox

Frank has always had a fascination with the Wild West. In this episode he explores the macabre Western ballads of Cathy Park Hong. 

This podcast contains some disturbing images.

Poems Referenced:
Abecedarian Western - Cathy Park Hong
Ballad in I – Cathy Park Hong
The Song of Katydids – Cathy Park Hong
From ‘Fort Ballads’
Ballad of the Range – Cathy Park Hong
Ballad of Fort Mann – Cathy Park Hong
Ballad of Grace – Cathy Park Hong
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Cathy Park Hong

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