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An exciting, compelling, and eerie ballad, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner focuses on the uncanny experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage that has left him with a heavy burden to bear. Furthermore, the poem explores numerous themes including retribution, suffering, salvation, torment, nature, spirituality, and supernaturalism. The poem opens with the appearance of its mysterious protagonist, a skinny old man with a curious glittering eye, as he stops a young man who i ...
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Pivot Point explores the personal experiences of those who have made a life and career in the world of film, music and the arts. We’ll hear from industry pros about how they got started, the hurdles they overcame and the help they received along the way. Joseph’s style of interviewing reveals stories we embrace as our own, finding empathy and encouragement in the creative journey and hopefully help you move closer to your own personal Pivot Point.
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Everything you wanted to know about western civilisation but were afraid to ask. We aim to provide compelling talks on the key works of the Western canon, to fill in our missing knowledge on subjects that might once have been passed down as the foundation of a common culture. See our eventbrite page or twitter for future talks.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable of our modern age. We are the wedding guests, and the albatross around the Mariner's neck is an emblem of human despair and our abuse of the natural world. Yet in its beautiful terror there lies a wondrous solution – that we might wake up and find ourselves saved. Art knows no boundaries. The Ancient Mariner Big Read is an inclusive, immersive work of audio and visual art from the 21st century that reflects the sweeping majesty and abiding ...
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The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne

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Ryan and Leon are delighted to bring you your NEW favourite poetry podcast, exploring the work of poets old and new, with a little bit of craic mixed in. We'll share our love of poetry every week, taking you on a journey through work from poets you'll have heard of, as well as poets you may not have heard of and even people you had no idea wrote poetry.! We'll also help with our Agony Poet part of the show where we'll accept any challenge of solving a problem with a poem. Nothing is too triv ...
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HOLLYWORD

Key Whiskey

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HOLLYWORD is a podcast that explores the lives of history's greatest story-tellers. It is a DIY passion project created by Key Whiskey, who researches, writes, narrates and edits each episode from her home in Sydney, Australia.
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The Black History Buff podcast is a fun and thrilling journey through time. Covering the full historical tapestry of the African Diaspora, you’ll hear tales covering everything from African Samurai to pistol-wielding poets. More than just a podcast, the show is a bridge that links communities throughout the African diaspora and enlightens and empowers its friends.
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Our podcasts are a mix of conversations with a wide range of subject matter experts and enthusiasts, interspersed with the occasional audio drama. Each episode focuses on one person, a group of people or a genre from the world of entertainment that we wish to bring back to the spotlight and who has been lost to history or is in danger of being so.The Arts industries are currently in peril but this is nothing new. The Entertainment industry in all its guises has seen it all before. Political ...
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Coleridge-Taylor-Sometimes-I-Feel-Like-a-Motherless-Child.mp3 Like many spirituals with roots in the era of slavery in the United States, this song has two key emotions at its heart: a bones-deep melancholy and an unshakeable strength. Because its pain is so accessible (what image cou…
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This one is a little loose people, so get ready! Reason being: The sun was shining and we enjoyed a few garggles before going into the world of poetry this week, so if you fancy grabbing yourself a scoop before you listen, you'd be absolutely so welcome. Speaking of enjoying yourself, we start the show with the iconic 'stand and stare' line from th…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Golden-hour.mp3 When you were a teenager, did you have that one friend who suddenly got deep into photography? That friend who was playing with normal kid toys like everyone else, but then one day they’ve suddenly got a collection of lenses and lighting and terminology that makes you …
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It was sunny. There were beers. But, most importantly, there were poems! We spent the weekend bumping between music tents and food vans down at Beyond The Pale Festival, hosted in 'The Garden Of Ireland' Glendalough, County Wicklow Amongst a backdrop of pretty landscapes were the two fellas, a microphone and their poems. We grabbed anyone we could …
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Echo-Sax-No.8.mp3 I’ve already confessed my love of walking on this blog – tracking my steps, following railway tracks – but there’s a slightly weirder side to my walking that I feel I need to admit to you. And here it is: one of my favourite places to walk is the underground parking …
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SZA-Good-Days-Audio.mp3 If you’ve ever seen a tiny stream empty into a lake on a sandy beach, you’ve seen the beautiful patterns it imprints into the sand. Flowing braids sculpted by the current as the water does what it does. Zoom out. If you’ve ever been in a plane and looked below …
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The Poetry’s Dead Podcast x Leaving Cert Special! Well. Kind of. We couldn’t do a whole bloody show about it, that would be as dull as doing the actually exams. But! We’ve got a few leaving cert stories from Leon, poetry from Eavan Boland @eavanbolandpoetry (anyone over 22 that just got a shot of PTSD, don’t worry, you don’t have to do the leaving …
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ascension.mp3 Let’s take a trip this week. A forty-thousand-and-a-bit kilometre trip along the famous but invisible line that divides the world in half: the equator. We’ll start our day off at Coffee Beach in the country of Sao Tomé and Principe, partly because something with the name…
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Wake up slowly on this Bank Holiday Monday (here in Ireland) my child and allow us to soothe you back into life with another fun episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast! We whizz around every conversational topic known to man on this one like two ADHD teenagers having their first pint, and we had a great time with it. Our patreon community's first fea…
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This is the recording of our second event, where Paul Pay spoke on Richard Wagner. Paul Lay is Senior Editor of Engelsberg Ideas, and the author of Providence Lost: the Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate (Head of Zeus).The musical accompaniment Paul selected for the talk is Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung.…
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The inaugural Canon Club event took place in London at the Sekforde on Wednesday 11th October, where Jaspreet Singh Boparai spoke on Paradise Lost and Dr Johnson's "Life of Milton".The talk transcript is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eK1pUNKFY7-SHSRZqVUGZLTVrvdGJtyV/editJaspreet trained as a classicist and historian of art, and speciali…
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This is the recording of our third event: Professor Douglas Hedley speaking on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, literary critic, philosopher, theologian and one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge.…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jonny-Greenwood-Open-Spaces.mp3 If you’re into ultra-dark movies exploring humankind’s penchant for greed, hatred, and power via the exploitation of natural resources, 2007’s There Will Be Blood is for you. On the other hand, if you just want those things conveyed musically without ha…
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Oh we bloody missed you, and we hope a few of you missed us too! We're back with a bang or two as we share stories of stag parties, proposals and ask the question that everyone is asking. How depressing is it to be a poet? We talk about the magic of Kae Tempest, and the way she twists words around sound like nobody else. Sylvia Plath makes her debu…
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