Pelé's Poetry Podcast
Poet Pelé Cox and her pupil Richard Uridge discuss poetry, its practice and potential as a tool for a creative life.
Episode 5 - the St Valentine's Day one
Who first wrote roses are red, violets are blue, honey is sweet and so are you? Who were the lines written for? And when? Plus is poetry the language of love? Just some of the questions Pele Cox and Rich Uridge seek answers to in this special lovers’ edition. Oh and which poet would you […]
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Episode 4 - finding your poetic voice
What is poetic voice? Is it synonymous with style? Or something else? Perhaps the poet’s “take” on the world? Pele Cox and Rich Uridge seek answers from a range of greats including Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay and Vernon Watkins who, with a drunken Dylan Thomas, tripped over a feather! Poets Further reading You can hear […]
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Episode 3 - what's the point of poetry?
Pele Cox and her co-host Rich Uridge ask: what is the purpose of poetry? With the help of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Thomas Wyatt, they conclude that, in part, poetry’s job is to move readers to virtuous action or “well doing and not well knowing only” as Sidney put it. Along […]
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Episode 2 - the poetry of shock
Poet Pele Cox and journalist Rich Uridge discuss the differences between poetry and journalism. With the help of Ted Hughes and his Birthday Letters they talk about how poetry can tackle shocking subject matter in a way that prose alone cannot. Rich talks about writing his own shocking experience. Plus poetry as a portal to […]
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Episode 1 - time to unpack
The first in a series in which the poet Pelé Cox and her pupil, the former journalist Rich Uridge, discuss poetry as a tool for a creative life. They explore the differences between writing news reports and writing poetry with the help of another journalist – Dylan Thomas and his poem Fern Hill. Plus why […]
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