Episodes — The Poetry Tavern

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...

Episode 21

This week we are looking into the use of diacope within poetry, with examples from the work of Simon Armitage and Leopol...

Episode 20

In this episode, we cover the use of anaphora, with poetry examples from Chen Chen and Sherine Gilmour.

Episode 19

This week we are talking about semantic fields, with examples in poetry from Jo Bratten and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Episode 18

The new year has finally come, so this week's episode is about poems from 2025, from Kathleen Ossip and John Jeremiah Su...

Episode 17

This week, we are looking at Christmas poems, with examples from Sandra M Castillo, Christina Rossetti and Timothy Toche...

Episode 16

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

Episode 15

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