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Encounters with Medieval Women: Mary of Egypt
Season 2 Episode 1
In the first episode of their miniseries looking at the lives and voices of medieval women, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley encounter Saint Mary …
3 years, 6 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Robert Lowell
Season 1 Episode 10
In the final episode of series one of Modern-ish Poets, Mark and Seamus confront Robert Lowell: the Boston Brahmin for whom poetry trumped every othe…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Seamus Heaney
Season 1 Episode 9
For the ninth episode of their series, Seamus and Mark discuss the life and work of Seamus Heaney, whose first collection, Death of Naturalist, estab…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Sylvia Plath
Season 1 Episode 8
Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry, for the eighth episode of Modern-ish Poe…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Wallace Stevens
Season 1 Episode 7
In episode seven of their first series of Modern-ish Poets Mark and Seamus look to that great poet of winter and snow, Wallace Stevens, considering h…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: A.E. Housman
Season 1 Episode 6
In the sixth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Worcestershire lad A. E. Housman, whose imaginative p…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Stevie Smith
Season 1 Episode 5
In the fifth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1 Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Stevie Smith, ‘an eccentric poet with a tenacious repu…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Thomas Hardy
Season 1 Episode 4
In the fourth episode of Modern-ish Poets, Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Thomas Hardy, with its blend of bitterness of tenderness, its…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Elizabeth Bishop
Season 1 Episode 3
For episode three of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus look at the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, the east-coast American poet who enjoy…
3 years, 7 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: W.H. Auden
Season 1 Episode 2
In the second episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus discuss life and work of W. H. Auden, from the influence of his parents and his p…
3 years, 7 months ago