"Paradise Saved" by A.D. Hope

Versecraft

Tech woes: Audio cuts out briefly at 11:56. Sorry!
Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Please send all your John Forbes and Jane Kenyon hate mail to Alice at [e-mail]

-My upcoming Poetry Says episode on Gwen Harwood and my role as the prosodic gadfly/mustache-twirling villain of contemporary poetry.

-Read my poem "The Virtue of Corinthian Columns" here .

-Read my poem "Thalassic Hymn" here .

-The show will be on hiatus in June! Sorry :(

-Let's get Versecraft in the classroom!

-Join my bookclub forum on "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" here

-Alice's brilliant episode on Australian poetry culture, Funny Ha Ha

-Cultural Cringe

-Be the Poseidon of the tides of fashion

-The Curious Case of the Third Foot Trochaic Substitution

-Counter-factuals reveal the actuals.

-A bit of ribbing

-It's about time we talked metonymy

-Pride and Punishment

-Eliot's "The Wasteland," and the line he stole from Tennyson

-Hypallage returns!

-Not Donald's justice, but God's justice.

-"Hell is more than half of paradise"

-Adam has no rizz.

-Theravada vs. Mahayana Buddhism

-All you need is love, and whatever else Aristotle said.
Text of poem:
Paradise Saved
Adam, indignant, would not eat with Eve,

They say, and she was driven from his side.

Watching the gates close on her tears, his pride

Upheld him, though he could not help but grieve,

And climbed the wall, because his loneliness

Pined for her lonely figure in the dust:

Lo, there were two! God who is more than just

Sent her a helpmeet in that wilderness.

Day after day he watched them in the waste

Grow old breaking the harsh unfriendly ground,

Bearing their children, till at last they died.

While Adam, whose fellow God had not replaced,

Lived on immortal, young, with virtue crowned,

Sterile and impotent and justified.

Support the Show.

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: [e-mail]
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 (/ /)