"At Mornington" By Gwen Harwood Versecraft podcast

7M ago 33:02

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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

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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 (/ /)