Podcasts about Edward Lear

‘Enid's hands are always kept busy caring for other people…' This week, Sally continues her theme of developing characters from objects by presenting a portrait of Enid Bagot, a young woman used to working with her hands, who will feature in Sally's forthcoming imagined biography, provisionally titled Mrs Parnell. Listen for a reflection on the routines and rhythms of life and work, interspersed with the moments from Sally's own life that provide her inspiration. The image of the cat by Edward Lear that Sally refers to can be viewed here. The wonderful piano music in the opening section is ‘Tuesday', by Paul Seba. More on Paul and his work can be found here. This episode was edited and produced by James Bowen. Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.

News; birthdays/events; women have a tendency to take off their shoes at the movies (with the reclining seats)...do you take your shoes off in public places? (work...on a plane...etc)?; word of the day. News; do you haggle? how often? on what types of products/services?; game: quiz; game: feud. News; do you have a favorite color as an adult...is it the same as when you were a kid? do you buy lots of things in that color?; people who clean their house more are happier...do you have a favorite chore?; would you like to try yoga if it involved baby animals? News; game: calendar trivia; would you move to another continent if you never had to deal with mosquitos again in your life?; goodbye/fun facts....National Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of English artist, illustrator, author, and poet Edward Lear who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry, prose, and limericks. Limerick poems were popularized in Lear's book “Book of Nonsense” in 1846. A limerick is a very short, humorous, nonsense poem. Within a limerick, there are five lines. The first two lines rhyme with the fifth line and the third and fourth line rhyme together. Most limericks begin by describing a person and place, and then the rest of the lines describe that person's actions. 

Last week marked the centennial of Edward Gorey's birth, so let's wish a happy birthday to our shared goth uncle with a listen back to episiode 23. Enjoy! Katie Skelly and Sally Madden discuss Edward Gorey's "Amphigorey: Fifteen Books" (1980). Topics discussed include Max Ernst, Edward Lear, Agatha Christie, Charles Addams, Tomie dePaola, Roald Dahl, holding newborns, ballet, New England, and more. Next time: "Magician A" by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. Find 50+ additional episodes at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod and email us to join our Discord at thicklinespod@gmail.com

Today's poem is the best-remembered work of the beloved “nonsense poet” Edward Lear–a silly lyric about a serious love. The episode also features a few guest readers. Happy reading.Edward Lear, the British poet and painter known for his absurd wit, was born on May 12, 1812, in Highgate, England, a suburb of London, and began his career as an artist at age fifteen. His father, a stockbroker of Danish origin, was sent to debtor's prison when Lear was thirteen, forcing the young Lear to earn a living. Lear quickly gained recognition for his work and, in 1832, was hired by the London Zoological Society to execute illustrations of birds. In the same year, the Earl of Derby invited him to reside at his estate; Lear ended up staying until 1836.Lear's first book of poems, A Book of Nonsense (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1846) was composed for the grandchildren of the Derby household. Around 1836, Lear decided to devote himself exclusively to landscape painting, although he continued to compose light verse. Between 1837 and 1847, Lear traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia.After his return to England, Lear's travel journals were published in several volumes as The Illustrated Travels of a Landscape Painter. Popular and respected in his day, Lear's travel books have largely been ignored in the twentieth century. Rather, Lear is remembered for his humorous poems, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” and as the creator of the form and meter of the modern limerick. Like his younger peer Lewis Carroll, Lear wrote many deeply fantastical poems about imaginary creatures, such as “The Dong with the Luminous Nose.” His books of humorous verse also include Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (James R. Osgood and Company, 1871) and Laughable Lyrics: a Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c.(Robert John Bush, 1877).Edward Lear died on January 29, 1888, in San Remo, Italy, at the age of seventy-six.-bio via Academy of American Poets This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Marco Alfano"Parole a manovella"La linea scrittawww.lalineascritta.itSpesso i grandi scrittori si mettono a giocare mentre scrivono.Dagli insospettabili Dante e Boccaccio fino a Joyce, Nabokov, Cortàzar e Primo Levi, solo per citarne alcuni, la letteratura si è nutrita e si nutre sottotraccia di sperimentazioni sulla forma che sono delle vere e proprie macchine giocose, i cui ingranaggi sono regole rigorose che producono piacere aggiuntivo nel lettore. E soprattutto che hanno la funzione di stimolo alla creatività, come ben sapevano gli scrittori dell'OuLiPo come Perec e Queneau (cui si unì Italo Calvino), che hanno prodotto capolavori assoluti a partire da una griglia di norme formali in cui sbizzarrirsi con la fantasia per ottenere il miglior risultato, proprio come in un gioco di società.E, d'altra parte, il piacere del gioco, che sia coltivato individualmente o in gruppo, si alimenta spessissimo con la lingua, le parole e la loro duttilità, i sensi multipli (e i nonsensi), le assonanze. Dal Gioco del vocabolario al Telegrafo senza fili, dal Taboo ai surrealisti Cadaveri Squisiti, ai molteplici giochi enigmistici il divertimento passa attraverso il linguaggio, la sua manipolazione gioiosa, lo stupore infantile della scoperta di nuovi sensi e nuovi suoni.Questo laboratorio vuole affrontare con serissima leggerezza la relazione tra parola e gioco, in entrambe le direzioni: usare il gioco e le sue regole come strumento creativo per scrivere e le parole per giocare e divertirsi. Lo faremo attraversando la miriade di forme della ludoscrittura, leggendo e analizzando gli scrittori e i poeti che l'hanno praticata ma soprattutto scrivendo e giocando assieme.  A chi è rivolto:A chi scrive e vuole aggiungere nuovi utensili, manovelle, trottole, scatole a molla e caleidoscopi alla sua cassetta degli attrezzi narrativaA chi è appassionato di giochi, letteratura, enigmistica, poesia, combinatoria, scrittura umoristicaA chiunque, che sia o no incluso nelle due categorie precedenti, voglia divertirsi e impararenuovi giochi e cimenti da sperimentare in gruppo o da soloCome si articolaSei incontri in videoconferenza, il giovedì, di due ore ciascuno, con una parte teorica e, principalmente, l'applicazione pratica e creativa delle varie forme di scrittura ludica o “a contrainte”. Esercizi, giochi e scritture saranno condivisi continuativamente attraverso una mailing list e un gruppo Facebook che saranno attivi durante il laboratorio e anche successivamente.Alcuni degli argomenti/giochi:l'OuLiPo e la scrittura a contrainte; Lipogrammi e tautogrammi; Acrostici, palindromi e anagrammi; Poesia metasemantica; Le lingue inventate; Le parole inesistenti e il gioco del vocabolario; La combinatoria; Le forme poetiche come Ur-contraintes; Il nonsense e i Limericks; Le scritture automatiche; Il cut-up di Borroughs; Il cinegioco (gioco dei titoli).Alcuni degli autori trattati:Georges Perec; Raymond Queneau; Primo Levi; Stefano Bartezzaghi; Giampaolo Dossena; Umberto Eco; Italo Calvino; Tommaso Landolfi; Julio Cortázar; Jorge Luis Borges; J. Rodolfo Wilcock; Giorgio Manganelli; Marcello Marchesi; Achille Campanile; Ettore Petrolini; Raymond Roussel; Leonardo Sciascia; Vladimir Nabokov; Giovanni Boccaccio; Dante Alighieri; Gianni Mura; Beppe Varaldo; Toti Scialoja; Edward Lear; Lewis Carroll; Fosco Maraini.Marco AlfanoCura per Lalineascritta, nei cui laboratori si è formato, il sito web, e i corsi in videoconferenza, che ha ideato e realizza assieme ad Antonella Cilento dal 2011. È docente del laboratorio di ludoscrittura "Parole a Manovella". Ha pubblicato racconti in numerose antologie, sui quotidiani L'Unità e Roma e sulla rivista internazionale «Storie». È in preparazione una sua raccolta di poesie illustrate ispirate a Toti Scialoja e sta lavorando al suo primo romanzo. Musicista, è stato membro fondatore dei Panoramics (con i quali ha tra l'altro composto le musiche originali per lavori video e teatrali di Mario Martone e Andrea Renzi e collaborato con Enzo Moscato e Peppe Servillo) ed è attualmente componente dei Ferraniacolor, pop band il cui album di esordio è uscito nel marzo del 2018. È tra gli autori di «Perdurante», tributo a Francesco Durante pubblicato nel 2021 dall'OpLePo, sezione italiana dell' OuLiPo.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Como escolher livros para crianças e adolescentes? Está é uma pergunta que pode nos assombrar, mas SEUS PROBLEMAS ACABARAM! Arthur Marchetto, Cecília Garcia Marcon e Gustavo Magnani se juntaram para conversar sobre os elementos que compõem as narrativas, como entender os temas que interessam a criança e, claro, indicar livros que podem ser presentes certeiros. Aperta o play e vem com a gente no episódio temático de Dia das Crianças! -- Livros citados no episódio - Coleção Vagalume - Alice no País das Maravilhas & no País dos Espelhos, de Lewis Carroll - Como treinar o seu dragão, de Cressida Cowell - Desventuras em série, de Lemony Snicket - A lenda da caixa das almas, de Paola Siviero - A vida no céu: romance para jovens e outros sonhadores, de José Eduardo Agualusa - Editora Baião - Tem um gato no frontispício, de Sofia Mariutti e Vitor Rocha - Contos de fada japoneses, de Yei Theodora Ozaki e Tokitaka - Bailinho, de Carlos Eduardo Pereira e Zansky - Chupim, de Itamar Vieira Junior e Manuela Navas - A morte é assim?: 38 perguntas mortais de meninas e meninos, de Ellen Duthie, Anna Juan Cantavella e Andrea Antinora - 200 limeriques de Edward Lear para ler e para ver, de Edward Lear e Renato Moriconi - Editora Glida - Gatos Alados, de Ursula K. Le Guin - A Droga da Obediência, de Pedro Bandeira - A Droga do Amor, de Pedro Bandeira - A Droga da Amizade, de Pedro Bandeira - Fique onde está e então corra, de John Boyne - Histórias de ninar para garotas rebeldes 1, de Elena Favilli e Francesca Cavallo - Histórias de ninar para garotas rebeldes 2, de Elena Favilli e Francesca Cavallo - Chapeuzinho esfarrapado e outros contos feministas do folclore mundial, de Bárbara Malagoli e Ethel Johnston Phelps -- Links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apoie o 30:MIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Siga a gente nas redes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Já apoia? Acesse suas recompensas

It's another weekly gimmerick here on the Daily Poem. Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.-bio via Wikipedia Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells the story of how we learned to love pusskins. Content warning: contains Kipling, Edward Lear, some stinking carts of offal, and the troubled life and weird art of the extraordinary Louis Wain.

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells the story of how we learned to love pusskins. Content warning: contains Kipling, Edward Lear, some stinking carts of offal, and the troubled life and weird art of the extraordinary Louis Wain.

This week Susie and Gyles get lost in the world of nonsensical language, and embrace the weird, wacky and wonderful ways the English language can be. Your favourite duo also pay homage to the masters of nonsensical language – Dr. Seuss, whose fantastical worlds and playful rhymes have enchanted generations of readers; Spike Milligan, the irreverent genius known for his zany humor and inventive wordplay; and Edward Lear, the Victorian poet and artist renowned for his witty limericks and nonsensical verse. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our email address here: purplepeople@somethingrhymes.com Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don't forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com  Enjoy Susie's Trio for the week:  Spissitude: Thickness or compactness.  Latescent: Slowly becoming hidden.  Gronk: Fluff between your toes. Gyles' poem this week was 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' by Edward Lear I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea    In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money,    Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above,    And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,     What a beautiful Pussy you are,          You are,          You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!" II Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!    How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried:    But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day,    To the land where the Bong-Tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood    With a ring at the end of his nose,              His nose,              His nose,    With a ring at the end of his nose. III "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling    Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will." So they took it away, and were married next day    By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince,    Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,    They danced by the light of the moon,              The moon,              The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. A Sony Music Entertainment production.   Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts     To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every Bengalis. That book turned 100 this year. Now we understand why his nonsense still makes so much sense.

Essay 5: Christmas PuddingA new series of essays written and read by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and Composers and their Dogs. Here Fiona explores some of the world's favourite puddings, all of which have surprising stories and have become symbols far beyond the pudding bowl. Christmas pudding. A British icon, supposedly a classless, medieval religious symbol but which owes its modern prominence to Dickens. Exported as Empire Pudding, it is loved around the Commonwealth. There are surprising local adaptations in Asia (especially India) and the Caribbean, adding spices and exotic elements and renaming it as their own Christmas tradition. Thus it symbolises the reverse appropriation of imperialism. Key ingredient: dried fruit. Dates back to 4000 BC, much older than any religion, hence its role in nearly all of them. Christmas pudding is an example of the Victorians inventing many of our “traditions” we think of as older. Charles Dickens was a major creator of modern ideas of Christmas, with Mrs Beeton's recipe for 'Exceedingly Good Plum Pudding' (later Christmas pudding) whether flambéed or teetotal, establishing the British idea of Christmas centring on particular foods. Literary examples include Edward Lear's wacky villain, 'The Plum Pudding Flea'. Seeing and eating a Christmas pudding is like breaking into hot earth, a sweet, steaming mound of loam that looks rich enough to plant and grow the healthiest of Christmas trees; a universal substrate for a global festival. And then … there's the tooth-breaking sixpence-in-the-pudding tradition.Producer – Turan Ali A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1044, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 18 Years Of Leftovers 1: From Season 3:This "Pretty Baby" once suggested wearing red mascara, because it's "perfect for the disco". Brooke Shields. 2: From Season 14:21-year-old Frances Folsom married 49-year-old Grover Cleveland in this "colorful" room. the Blue Room. 3: From Season 12:Horace's quote "Permitte divis cetera" means "Leave the rest to" these beings. the gods. 4: From Season 11:British nonsense poet who wrote the 1877 poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo". Edward Lear. 5: From Season 10:This count who commanded a French force at Yorktown had almost become a priest. Rochambeau. Round 2. Category: Failed Constitutional Amendments 1: The "Every Vote Counts" amendment tried to abolish this "College" but went nowhere. the Electoral College. 2: After a Kentucky congressman shot and killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed. dueling. 3: The Crittenden Compromise of 1860 suggested 6 amendments to protect this institution. slavery. 4: In 2017, 35 years after its congressional deadline had passed, Nevada ratified this failed amendment. the ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment). 5: An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985. District of Columbia. Round 3. Category: Ripley'S Believe It Or Not! 1: B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this!. rice. 2: B.I.O.N., herpetologist Bill Haast has been bitten over 150 times by these deadly creatures!. snakes. 3: B.I.O.N., every year a Filipino village recreates this event of around 30 A.D. using nails. the crucifixion. 4: B.I.O.N., because he believes it's possessed by his dead fiancee, a man married one of these dolls!. a Barbie doll. 5: B.I.O.N., a 3-year old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for 4 years by a colony of these human-like apes!. chimps. Round 4. Category: Is It Safe? 1: A parasite spread by this insect sickens 300 million people a year and kills almost 3 million. the mosquito. 2: Christmas will not be jolly if you happen to eat the red berries from this evergreen holiday bush. holly. 3: This is in the top 3 of the most dangerous professions in the U.S.; most of the fatalities are from drowning. fishing. 4: Though the pygmy and river varieties look comical, Africans consider this 8,000-lb. mammal extremely dangerous. the hippopotamus. 5: This homophonic drug cocktail was a '90s weight-loss dream but was later discovered to be a health nightmare. Fen-phen. Round 5. Category: Now You Know 1: Chopping an onion releases a compound that causes these glands to produce tears. the lachrymal glands. 2: The best result in this lakeside game also called "ducks and drakes" is with a flat projectile thrown at a 20-degree angle. skipping stones. 3: As we humans get older, less and less of this pigment is added to beginning hair cells, leading to gradual graying. melanin. 4: This type of "burn" happens when water molecules escape from food preserved there and begin to migrate. freezer burn. 5: The world's smallest flowers, Wolffia globosa, each consist of 1 pistil and 1 this, the pistil's male counterpart. the stamen. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Episode I don't even know anymore.This fortnight is jam-packed. Joe reveals he's had several little pricks in him over the last few days, which makes Casey feel a bit sick. Of course beer is reviewed. There are TWO poems, but don't worry, Casey didn't write either of them. The quiz is heavily under the influence, and despite being clean for 42 years Joe does surprisingly well on certain questions. Casey is caught doing something illicit, and the IYAs feature very little air to breathe and an old man who's run out of puff, but don't worry, there is a happy ending. Not that kind. 

An adventure over the sea in a pea-green boat.

• Literatur • Was hat der „Maier am Himalaya“ mit Karl Marx oder Denis Diderot mit Edward Lear oder Margaret Thatcher zu tun? Was verbindet Kuba, Kometen, Poeten mit Pflanzenforschern und Mathematikern, Chefökonomen mit Cocktailrezepten?Von Hans Magnus Enzensbergerwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, HörspielDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Michael Rosen talks nonsense with literary scholar Noreen Masud. From the nonsense language of Shakespeare's fools, to the nonsense lyrics of The Beatles, via the limericks of Edward Lear, the portmanteaus of Lewis Carroll, and the made-up words of three year olds. A BBC Audio Bristol production. Produced by Becky Ripley.

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The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 10 Why are some words funnier than others? Can you learn a theory of humour? Are the sounds we find comical just as effective in other languages? The Neuromantics – writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – give funny words a thorough seeing to, asking whether it's possible to find any consensus on humour or if it's a case of each to his own. Stepping across from funny to absurd, they explore the ideas behind Edward Lear's The Jumblies, and visit a very unsettling short story by the Luxembourgeois writer Florence Sunnen. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

Most of the class is on Edward Lear, and what his kind of nonsense poetry (very different from Carroll's) tells us about how poetry works in general.  Then a return to Clare, to complete "The Winters Spring."

Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of surreal humour tend to involve bizarre juxtapositions, incongruity, non-sequiturs, irrational or absurd situations, and expressions of nonsense.[1]Surreal humour grew out of surrealism, a cultural movement developed in the 20th century by French and Belgian artists, who depicted unnerving and illogical scenes while developing techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.[1] The movement itself was foreshadowed by English writers in the 19th century, most notably Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. The humour in surreal comedy arises from a subversion of audience expectations, emphasizing the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of a situation, so that amusement is founded on an unpredictability that is separate from a logical analysis of the situation.Surreal humour is concerned with building up expectations and then knocking them down; even seemingly masterful characters with the highest standards and expectations are subverted by the unexpected, which the scene emphasizes for the viewer's amusement. Either the "goofball" or "straight" character in the scene can react with dull surprise, disdain, boredom, or detached interest, thus heightening comic tension. Characters' intentions are set up in a series of scenes significantly different from what the audience might ordinarily encounter in daily life. The unique social situations, expressed thoughts, actions, and comic lines are used to spark laughter, emotion, or surprise as to how the events occurred or unfolded, in ways sometimes favorable to other unexpectedly introduced characters.[citation needed]Surreal humour in theatre is usually about the insensitivity, paradox, absurdity, and cruelty of the modern world. Absurd and surrealist cinema often deals with elements of dark humour: disturbing or sinister subjects like death, disease, or warfare are treated with amusement and bitterness, creating the appearance of an intention to shock and offend.[2] Get full access to The Wednesday Audio at yeahwednesdays.substack.com/subscribe

There was a city called Sanremo/whose hats were given the heave-ho/They all fell down/There on the ground/At the feet of Roy Keano. Yes, Edward Lear, the famed English nonsense poet, might have said this about Italy's city of flowers - he lived and died there - but not Alex and John. No, armed with press passes they took Footy on the Med to a new level for Sanremese v Stresa - or, perhaps, a new low given this was the podcast's first ever 0-0 draw. Don't listen out for any goals but do enjoy the usual banter from Mediterranean football's tireless duo. Find out more on FootyOnTheMed.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footy-on-the-med/message

A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear audiobook. In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been well loved by many generations of children (and adults). 

Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear audiobook. This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and the Tongs; The Duck and the Kangaroo; The Cummerbund; The Dong with the Luminous Nose; The New Vestments; Calico Pie; The courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo and Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly. Also included at no extra cost are two sections with my favorite Lear limericks. Only about 30 of them but they are all funny and full of delectable silliness. I hope you enjoy listening to these as much as I enjoyed recording them.

We're putting on the nonsense, and realizing that perhaps it's too much for even us! Pemmy and James look at this Rankin Bass production animated by British group Halas and Batchelor Studios which adapted the works of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash and many more. It's limericks, riddles, puns and poems with a Laugh-In format, a goofy cast of jokesters and not a lot of structure, making it a fascinating experiment in the era of Scooby-Doo and the Archies.

Two nonsense poems by Edward Lear about two very odd couples - an owl and a pussy cat and a duck and a kangaroo.  (duration 8 minutes) An episode from Journey with Story, a storytelling podcast for kids ages 3-10. If you would like to enjoy our weekly coloring sheets and other perks, subscribe to our patreon page here If your little listener wants to ask us a question or send us a drawing inspired by one of our episodes, send it to us at instagram@journeywithstory.  Or you can contact us at www.journeywithstory.com.  We love to hear from our listeners. If you enjoy our podcast, you can rate, review, and subscribe at here Did you know Kathleen is also a children's picture book author, you can find out more about her books at www.kathleenpelley.com  

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Kay Harel, author of Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia. Kay Harel is a writer who holds MAs in science journalism from New York University and in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published essays on Darwin as well as on figures such as William James, Edward Lear, and Wallace Stevens in Southwest Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Sexuality and Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With inspiration from Mark McGuinness, you'll integrate poetry into your writing life as a pleasurable practice that elevates your prose. In this interview, Mark describes the vision for his podcast and his own poetic beginnings, and he urges writers (and readers) to simply enjoy poetry. You'll see ways poetry intersects with and impacts prose—you can even play a literary game he describes at the end. Learn from Mark: How a mouthful of air is a perfect image for poetry and podcastsHow can we translate metaphor into our other forms of writing (without being weird)The metaphor that comes to his mind when describing himself and his writingHow poems "mug" Mark and he drops everything to chase them like leprechaunsThe importance of getting input on your work and finding a writing mentorPlus, play his writing game (bring your prose)! Listen to episode 245 and check out excerpts in the transcript below. You'll be inspired by his warm, encouraging advice. If his subtle persuasion succeeds, you may embrace poetry as the next step in your literary journey. Meet Mark McGuinness Mark McGuinness is a poet based in Bristol, UK. On his poetry podcast A Mouthful of Air he interviews contemporary poets about their writing practice and draws out insights that can help any writer become more creative, expressive and memorable. Mark also takes classic poems apart to show us how they work and what we as writers can learn from the examples of poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Chaucer and Edward Lear. Links: Visit amouthfulofair.fmListen to A Mouthful of Air on Apple PodcastsTwitter: @amouthfulofairInstagram: @airpoets https://youtu.be/bu0LwCeNlQw Mark McGuinness Interview This is a lightly edited transcript. [00] - Ann Kroeker With inspiration from my guest Mark McGuinness, you may find yourself integrating poetry into your writing life as both a pleasure and a practice. I'm Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach. If you're tuning in for the first time, welcome. If you're a regular, welcome back. I'm sharing my best tips and training skills and strategies to help writers improve their craft, pursue publishing and achieve their writing goals. Today I have Mark McGuinness on the show, a poet from Bristol, UK. On his poetry podcast, A Mouthful of Air, Mark interviews contemporary poets to discover their writing practice and draws out insights that can help any writer become more creative, expressive and memorable. Mark also takes classic poems apart to show us how they work and what we as writers can learn from the examples of poets like Yates, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Chaucer and Edward Lear. Listen in on our conversation. [00:54] - Ann Kroeker I am so excited to have Mark McGuinness on the call today on our show and we are going to talk about a lot of different things related to the creative life, the writing life, even the poetry life. Mark, thanks for being on the call. [01:09] - Mark McGuinness Thank you. It's lovely to be here, Ann. [01:12] - Ann Kroeker I am looking forward to learning more about how you approach your own creative life and how you use and enable poetry to be part of what feeds your creative life, how you inspire others with poetry, because that seems to be a big part of your life. Can you tell the listeners and viewers, can you tell us a little bit more about who you are and what you do? [01:37] - Mark McGuinness Sure. I am a poet living in Bristol, in the southwest of England, in the UK. I've been writing poetry quite a while and in my typical group of friends, I'm usually the one who reads poetry. I've always been quite aware that most people don't read poetry most of the time. There are a lot of people who are very literate, very well read, very avid readers, but who will generally read anything but poetry. And to my point of view, it's not that hard. I think a lot of people get put off at school,

This week, in one of the more unusual games of Q&H yet, Hallie has written six questions about things that aren't technically curse words, but sure sound like they are. You'll catch on pretty quickly, don't worry. We also talk about hockey, food, and one of our favorite TV shows!2:48: Q1 (Everything Else): The two styles of what soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat are the Hanoi and Saigon styles?7:16: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Featuring four anthropomorphic animals, what nonsense poem by Edward Lear was the first use of the word runcible?12:30: Q3 (Times & Places): What world's largest power station stretches 7,661 feet and cost almost 150 billion yuan to build?18:24: Q4 (Sports & Games): Dick Paradise is a former ice hockey player who played for the Minnesota Fighting Saints as part of what league, the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League?23:39: Q5 (Music): What song that sounds like an inappropriate question was released by Daft Punk in 1995 and was their first commercially successful single with a music video directed by Spike Jonze?29:01: Q6 (Movies & TV): Many networks encouraged the creators of this show to change the name, but after presenting the CBC with evidence from the yellow pages, they allowed them to keep the original title.Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Skeptical Skeptics Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/skeptical-skeptics/id1441503478

Andy and Amanda are back reading out a selection of poetry, extracts from novels and the return of more nonsense from Edward Lear.

Three short and silly poems about birds, bees and a harp. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/slothslovetoread/message

A wonderfully fanciful story about a lovely owl and a pussycat who end up marrying and dance by the light of the moon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/slothslovetoread/message

Season 1, Eposide 17 includes: The Little Land by Robert Louis Stevenson; Monday, Tuesday lyrics by Frances Jenkins Olcott, music by Jessie McKeon; The King's Breakfast by A.A. Milne, underscored with Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W.A. Mozart, undocumented recording; La Vaca Lola, traditional Colombian song arr. by SongBell; A Was An Ant by Edward Lear; Precocious Piggy, lyrics from a poem by Thomas Hood, music by Jessie McKeon; My Kingdom by Robert Louis Stevenson, underscored with Wind Quintet: Theme and Variations by Carl Nielsen, recorded by Scandanavian Symphony Orchestra, used with permission; lyrics by Jane Taylor, melody by Mozart, arr. Jessie McKeon. Raggedy Auntie Reads Theme and Closing Song written, performed, and recorded by Jessie McKeon. **Engage with Raggedy Auntie: linktr.ee/raggedyauntie**

Edward Lear (12 May 1812[1][2] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.[3] His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1735 Birth of Charles-Joseph Lamoral, French Field Marshal, writer, and member of the princely family of Ligne ("Leen-ya"). Charles once wrote, I should like to inflame the whole world with my taste for gardening.  There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.   1812 Birth of Edward Lear, English artist, musician, and writer.  Edward is remembered for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose. He once wrote, As for myself, I am sitting up today for the first time - partly dressed - [something] the cucumber said when oil and vinegar were poured over him, salt & pepper being omitted.   Edward also popularized the limerick.   Here's an Edward Lear limerick for gardeners. There was an old person so silly, He poked his head into a lily; But six bees who lived there, filled him full of despair, For they stung that old person so silly.   1820 Birth of Florence Nightingale (books about this person), English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing. Florence earned the moniker "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War because she would make her rounds to visit wounded soldiers with a lamp during the night. The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the term in his poem Santa Filomena, which he wrote in honor of Florence's work in Scutari Hospital. Florence was named after Florence, Italy - the city where she was born. As a young girl, she and her sister had their garden to plant and tend. When Florence was 13, she collected flowers with a 77-year-old botanist named Margaret Stovin. Together they gathered and pressed over 100 different species of plants. This charming story was featured in a 2008 book by Richard Mendelsohn. Today, Florence and Margaret's flowers are housed at the Natural History Museum in London. As an adult, Florence wrote, Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it. As a nurse, Florence believed flowers helped with the morale and recovery of her patients. And personally, the foxglove was her favorite flower. And Florence received a lovely bouquet every week from William Rathbone, the man who founded the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses. In 2020, one of the anticipated gardens was dedicated to Florence during the pandemic. The year 2020 marked the 200th Anniversary of her birth, and the garden was to be called The Florence Nightingale Garden - A Celebration of Modern Day Nursing. Instead, the garden debuted at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2021. The garden featured “Images from Florence Nightingale's pressed flower collection and echoes of her handwriting … on… the timber walls.” Today Florence is remembered in the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, which celebrates the life and work of the best-known figure in nursing history. She is also honored with the Florence Nightingale rose — a pretty pale pink fragrant rose.   1856 Birth of Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, German botanist and phytogeographer Andreas was a significant player in the early days of plant ecology. In 1901, his work was cut short due to his untimely death at 45 after contracting Malaria in  Cameroon.  Andreas coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll and is honored in many species names.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation  P. Allen Smith's Garden Home by P. Allen Smith This book came out in 2003, and the subtitle is Creating a Garden for Everyday Living. Well, to me, this book is a garden classic. You get to know a little bit about P. Allen Smith's biography. His family's love of gardens, his experience working in the nursery business - plus all of the great relationships that he made working in some of England's top gardens. (He could write a book on that alone.) Fascinating stories. But in all seriousness, this book is so foundational to gardening. It's a great book to give new gardeners. And it's also an excellent book for gardeners who are considering a redesign or, after a long winter, feel like they need to brush up on their skills. The bulk of this book is dedicated to Allen's twelve garden design principles. He'll talk about aspects like framing a view, having texture in the garden, rhythm, pattern, color, etc. Now I thought I'd share this little excerpt from Allen's introduction. And here he's talking about how he created the garden rooms on his own property. He writes, I began working out the various outdoor rooms to see how they related to the house itself. The shape to one another and to the of the house and the lot created a series of rectangular spaces.  I recognized an opportunity to design strong unbroken lines of sight or axes from one garden room into the next. Like an open door, these visual sight lines would allow visitors to stand in one room and see directly into the next. After positioning these openings through portals or entries further divided the rectangles into nine garden rooms and began to imagine how each space could have its own personality yet remain a part of a cohesive whole.    And then I love what he says next. Because he's talking about paths, and I always feel like paths are so underrated; they're almost an afterthought for so many gardeners. So Allen says, As I laid out this plan on paper, I added an entire circuit or path that looped around the house, connecting one garden room to the next. From here, I imagined hedges and fences that would serve as "walls" for each room, with arbors and gates as "doorways."   And then, he goes on to talk about more ways that he created these garden rooms. And so, in this book, Allen not only goes through his 12 principles of design, but he also takes you on tour. Through each of his garden rooms because they help illustrate each of those principles. It's a fabulous book. It's a garden basic - and it's so affordable now that it's been on the market so long. This book is 224 pages of P. Allen Smith's expertise, his twelve principles of garden design, and his fantastic personal garden. You can get a copy of P. Allen Smith's Garden Home by P. Allen Smith and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $3.     Botanic Spark 1943 On this day, the Belvidere Daily Republican posted an article entitled Gardeners Get Nine-Point Plan On Care Of Hose. If mindful of the rubber shortage, you're wondering how to coddle your garden hose through its important Victory-garden job this year, an expert here has a "nine-point program" for hose care that may mean the difference between a backyard farmer's success or failure. W. S. Richardson, manager of the industrial products division of B. F. Goodrich, outlines his nine points as follows:  1. Never drive a car over your hose.  2. Don't leave it lying in the sun  3. Coil it neatly and hang it up.  4. But not on a spike or sharp-edged stick.  5. Be sure it's drained first, for water left in the hose will damage the fabric reinforcement. 6. Don't turn off the water at the nozzle.  7. Don't try to stop the flow by doubling the hose back on itself for either way may give you a 'blow-out.' 8. Don't drag a hose over sharp stones in a rock garden. 9. Don't pick an oily spot on the driveway or floor of your garage as the place to coil it. He concludes, "[Oil] destroys most rubber, and you might end up with a leaky hose and a once-promising Victory garden 'burned up' by drought.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Season 1, Episode 14 includes: Table and Chair and several Nonsense Rhymes by Edward Lear; May Be So by Ruth McEnery Stuart; When a Pig Flew and Yummy, Happy, Good Time Soup by Templeton Moss. Raggedy Auntie Reads Theme and Closing Song written, performed, and recorded by Jessie McKeon. **Engage with Raggedy Auntie: linktr.ee/raggedyauntie**

Sara Lodge retraces the Irish journeys of writer, artist and composer Edward Lear, best known as the author of The Owl and the Pussy-cat.

Words by Edward Lear. Setting by Emily Josephine Troupe Baritone Edward Robinson. Pianist David Owen Norris

If you're funny and you know it, you're probably not funny. Equally unfunny are the theories of humour (such as: comedy makes us feel superior; or: it's about “violations” of expectation), which don't say much about varieties of taste and won't help you win over a tough crowd. In “Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, 2019, Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis narrow the focus. What if humour turned out to be a semantic property of some words and not others? They look closely at a data set of 5,000 words rated for humorousness and find certain patterns – insults are funny, the “oo” vowel is funny, and so are various other phonemes, particularly a hard “k”. As Mike Nichols once put it, “‘Casey' is a funny name. Robert Taylor is not.” It‘s persuasive stuff, until you add a lot of other words – sense, that is – and begin to wonder what happens to “funny” sounds in any extended context. Comedians on tour know all about this: “funny” can be shared, but it isn't universal. Things don't have to make one kind of sense, of course, and most comedy doesn't, because it relies on inversion and doubling up, either for the hell of it, or to make a point. The Nonsense Songs (1872) of Edward Lear turned the world upside down and “The Jumblies”, famously, went to sea in a sieve: it's delightful nonsense, because sieves can't be boats, but it's also a parody of Victorian adventuring, so the innocence has a sharp edge to it. Even sharper are the thrills we get from tales of the macabre, such as Florence Sunnen's “The Hook” (Nightjar Press, 2018), in which a bored undergraduate eats himself. The narrator watches her brother disappear, with his parents' approval. Real food is available, but the self-consuming prankster won't touch it. When a joke goes on too long, or we laugh too hard, we like to say “Stop!”, aware, perhaps, that misrule has a dark side. But no one does say it, here, and before long the chance to intervene has passed.

Season 1, Episode 2 includes: Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant; Table and Chair by Edward Lear; The Story of the Emperors New Clothes recorded by Leonora Blanche Elaine Lang in the Yellow Fairy Book. Raggedy Auntie Reads Theme and Closing Song written and recorded by Jessie McKeon.

Season 1, Episode 1 includes: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, lyrics by Jane Taylor and Lewis Carrol, melody by Mozart; A Was an Ant by Edward Lear.   Raggedy Auntie Reads Theme and Closing Song written and recorded by Jessie McKeon.

In a poetic episode, Charlotte and Steve are catching up on the autumn reality shows ranging from cooking to word-working to portrait painting. The BBC Good Food brand including the 101 Guides, website and magazine come under the spotlight as does quince, just coming into season now. Charlotte has been planting over 800 tulips and gives an update on her recent garden activity and the pair go back to their childhoods with Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat. Don't forget you can follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Voyage Around My AGA. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voyagearoundmyaga/message

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