Episodes — The Poetry Tavern

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...

Episode 14

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

Episode 13

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

Episode 12

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

Episode 11

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

Episode 10

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