The Poetry Tavern

In this weeks episode, we are looking at archaism in poetry, with examples from Robert Frost and Tim Turnball.

In this episode, we are looking at dialogism and conversation within poetry, with examples from Galway Kinnell and Louise Gluck.

Looking at the Beat Generation, with poetry examples from Amiri Baraka and Gary Snyder.

This week we are talking about various different rhyme schemes, with examples from Abbie Farwell Brown and Francis Duggan

This week we are talking about poems that use personification, looking at examples from Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.

We're covering lyric poems in this episode, looking at examples of this classic form from Clive Staples Lewis and Nikki Giovanni.

In this episode, we talk about extended metaphors within poetry, with examples from Elizabeth Bishop and Jose A Alcantara.

This episode, we are looking at poems that contain puns and word play, exploring the different ways it can be used in poetry.

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel Lindsay and Dan Taulapapa McMullin.

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel Lindsay and Dan Taulapapa McMullin.

This episode is all about poems talking about writing poetry, with works by Marianne Moore and Charles Bukowski

This week, we cover haikus, both those translated from Japanese and those written in the English language, covering a range of topics.