What is poetic voice? Is it synonymous with style? Or something else entirely? Perhaps the poet’s “take” on the world? In this episode Pele Cox and her co-host Rich Uridge ponder the inponderable with help from a range of poets – both dead and alive – including two of the greats, Emily Dickinson and Edna […]

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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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With Pele Cox in sunny Rome and her co-host Rich Uridge in soggy Shropshire the pair explore how the weather, place and experience can all contribute to poetry. They discuss the purpose of poetry and the differences (and similarities) between it and journalism. And with the help of Ted Hughes and his Birthday Letters they […]

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The first in a series in which the poet Pelé Cox and her pupil, the former journalist Richard Uridge, discuss poetry, its practice and potential as a tool for a creative life. In this eclectic opening episode they explore the differences between writing news reports and writing poetry with the help of another journalist – […]

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