"At Mornington" by Gwen Harwood
Manage episode 390527208 series 3396484
Text of poem here.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-The universecraft
-Shout out to the Aussies!
-Tim Tams SLAM, y'all
-Alice Allan, Poetry Says, and our episode on Gwen Harwood
-The Australian Augustans: Hope, McAuley, Stewart
-Paul Valery's "Le Cimitiere Marin"
-Tertius paeon reviewed
-The ocean motif, and my episodes on JMW's Through the Water and Yezzi's Mother Carey's Hen
-Quickness, Fastness
-Why graveyards are killer
-In Soviet Russia, bones wear YOU.
-The jack-o-lanterns of our labor
-Love as the light upon the waters of death
BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.
Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.
You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here!
TikTok: @versecraft
Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com
My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
77 episodes