Episodes — The Poetry Tavern

Episode 34

A playful Poetry Tavern episode exploring poems about TV, from Rodney Jones’s look at television as a once-taboo temptat...

Episode 35

A thoughtful Poetry Tavern episode exploring poems about phones, from the frustration of automated call systems in Kirin...

Episode 31

This episode of The Poetry Tavern explores poetry inspired by birds, from mythological symbolism to everyday moments of...

Episode 30

This episode of The Poetry Tavern explores poems centered on Earth, from the vastness of the planet to the intimacy of t...

Episode 29

This episode of The Poetry Tavern explores poetry inspired by planets, with a special focus on Pluto and Neptune. Charl...

Episode 28

This week in The Poetry Tavern, Charlotte explores poems inspired by the beauty and mystery of stars. From imaginative c...

Episode 27

Ocean inspired poetry exploring powerful themes and deeper meanings of the sea. The ocean reflects creativity, emotion,...

Episode 26

This week in The Poetry Tavern Charlotte explores poems inspired by music. Featuring Ghost Music by Robert Graves and R...

Episode 25

This episode explores poems centred on fire, beginning with Anne Bradstreet’s account of losing her home and the way fai...

Episode 24

In this episode, Charlotte dives into poems about aliens, from the tender metaphor of an unborn child in The Alien to th...

Episode 23

In this week’s episode, Charlotte explores the theme of coffee and what it represents in poetry. Moving away from poetic...

Episode 22

In this episode, host Charlotte dives into pleonasm, the use of seemingly unnecessary or doubled words, and asks whether...