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John Ormond, "Cathedral Builders"
May 28, 2026
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Lauris Edmond, "Waterfall"
May 21, 2026
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William Matthews, "Mingus at the Showplace"
May 7, 2026
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Kate Camp, "Gulls"
Apr 30, 2026
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Philip Larkin, "Solar"
Apr 23, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/28/26 |  John Ormond, "Cathedral Builders" | Tim and Andrew discuss what it takes to build a cathedral; who does the building; where our humanity comes from; and why a cathedral is not like AI.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/21/26 |  Lauris Edmond, "Waterfall" | Tim and Andrew consider the way love changes over the years, from youthful passion to aged tolerance and kindness, and how the special moments of one's life are like drops of water backlit by sunlight.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/7/26 |  William Matthews, "Mingus at the Showplace" | An episode for all miserable seventeen-year-olds and aspiring poets. You don't have to be a genius to have a go at poetry - or jazz - but beware if you are a professional and don't live up to Charles Mingus's standards. If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/30/26 |  Kate Camp, "Gulls" | In Homer, the gods took the place of consciousness. For contemporary New Zealand poet Kate Camp, it's gulls. What's the connection? And why does the speaker of this poem like derelict piers gently mouldering away in the sea? Tim and Andrew offer their take on "Gulls".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  Philip Larkin, "Solar" | Tim and Andrew bid farewell to Andrew's kitchen, at least for a few weeks, and indulge in a semi-professional recording studio. Full of the milk of human kindness as a result, Tim shrugs off his grumpy demeanour, and leads a discussion of the lifegiving qualities of the sun, as described by fellow curmudgeon Philip Larkin in his poem "Solar".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  Selina Tusitala Marsh, "Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894" | More poetry about art - this time from current Commonwealth Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh, who is "pissed off" at Paul Gauguin's depictions of nude women on a Tahitian beach.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  David Gascoyne, "Tenebrae" | For Good Friday, Tim and Andy talk about another Easter poem, this time from twentieth-century surrealist David Gascoyne.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/26/26 |  John Donne, "Crucifying" | Tim is frantically doing his homework ahead of Easter celebrations, and is keen to bounce some ideas around about John Donne's poem "Crucifying". Metaphysical poets need a fair bit of unpacking but does this limit the emotional connection we feel with the poetry itself?If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/19/26 |  Alexander Pope | Andy is solo for this quick trot through Augustan poetry and the work of its leading writer, Alexander Pope. Balance, harmony, wit, and style are hallmarks of Pope's idea of good poetry, and we have a look at how these come through in the "Essay on Criticism" and "On a Certain Lady at Court". If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/12/26 |  Vincent O'Sullivan, "Blame Vermeer" | Andy and Tim discuss Vincent O'Sullivan's response to the famous painting "The Milkmaid" by Vermeer. What happened before this woman started pouring the milk; what will happen after; and when did ordinary moments of everyday life become the subject of poetry?If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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| 3/5/26 |  Denis Glover, "Sings Harry (2)" | Denis Glover was at the heart of the New Zealand poetry scene in the mid-twentieth century, and in this episode Andrew and Tim discuss one of the poems in Glover's "Sings Harry" sequence, featuring a farmer musing about his place in the world as he works the land.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/26/26 |  John Clare, "The Yellowhammer's Nest" | Join Tim and Andrew as they dive into the English undergrowth in the company of the Romantic period's version of David Attenborough, Northamptonshire Peasant Poet John Clare.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/19/26 |  Francis Thompson, "At Lords" | Cricket tragics Tim and Andrew reunite for the first episode of 2026 to discuss Francis Thompson's gently elegiac "At Lords". If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/6/25 |  Carol Ann Duffy, "Letters from Dead Men" | How do we hope we'll be remembered after we're dead? Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy imagines the sorts of requests the living might receive from the dead, poking a bit of fun at the expectations, pretensions and delusions of dead men in particular.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/30/25 |  Seamus Heaney, "The Turnip Snedder" | What on earth is a turnip snedder? Tim and Andrew debate this and other questions in their discussion of this poem from Nobel Prize-winning poet, Seamus Heaney. If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/23/25 |  Wilfred Owen, "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" | Tim continues to feel belligerent, and gets a bit biblical with Wilfred Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young". Some people interpret the story of Abraham and Isaac as one of redemption and grace. But not Owen . . .If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/16/25 |  Wisława Szymborska, The End and the Beginning | Tim is in a belligerent mood and introduces Andrew to a poem by Polish Nobel-Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. As well as discussing the aftermath of war, Tim and Andrew discuss how poetry in translation works - what stays constant and what you might lose (or gain) by reading poetry in a different language to that in which it was composed.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/25/25 |  ST Coleridge, Frost at Midnight | "Frost at Midnight" is one of Coleridge's most well-known poems, and a fantastic example of what has come to be known as the Greater Romantic Lyric. Tim and Andrew discuss Coleridge's attitudes to the natural world, to childhood, and to the imagination - and how the French Revolution inspired poets in this period to imagine a new world.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/18/25 |  RS Thomas, Sea Watching | Tim shares his love for barren, windswept, bleak bird watching in this discussion of R. S. Thomas's poem 'Sea Watching'. Is there music in this scalpel-like poem? How and where do you find God? And why is the poem laid out in funny ways? Listen to find out.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/14/25 |  Edward Thomas, As the Team's Head Brass | Best known as a World War One poet, Edward Thomas also wrote some beautiful descriptions of English rural life. In "As the Team's Head Brass", he brings these two subjects together and wonders about how war affects those left behind.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/4/25 |  Sylvia Plath, Poppies in July | Sylvia Plath is one of the great American poets of the twentieth-century, as famous as much for her personal life as for her poetry. But how far should you allow our knowledge of her biography to influence how we read her poetry? Tim and Andrew think about this as they discuss "Poppies in July".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/28/25 |  Peter Bland, Wellington | How do you find your bearings in a new place, and can you transplant cultural touchstones from one side of the world to another? Peter Bland has a go at doing just that in "Wellington".If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/21/25 |  George Herbert, Love | The patron saint of country vicars, George Herbert imagines a conversation with Love as a barmaid. Tim and Andy unpack the poem (and Tim points out the naughty bits), and they discuss how the poem was once shared amongst Herbert's friends as a private, deathbed confession.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/14/25 |  Robert Sullivan, Waka 76 | A bar room brawl is brewing but it's not what you might expect. In this poem, Robert Sullivan merges myth and reality, Maori and European and plots a course for New Zealand's future.If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/7/25 |  Mary Oliver, Heavy | How do you overcome grief and loss? And what des it feel like when you do? Mary Oliver's "Heavy" tries to answer those questions, and talks about them in some beautifully controlled verse. If you like what you hear, why not make a small donation to keep us going? Find out more at coff.ee/poetaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.