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Today's poem is It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Though spoken to a single person, today's elegiac poem makes a universal claim about loss; our hearts, mind, and bodies and the memories within render permanent, even conjure, those we once loved on this side of life.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

In this episode, we are joined by acclaimed poet Tamar Yoseloff, who shares with us the poem that has been a friend to her: 'Morning' by Frank O'Hara.The conversation, like the poem, is full of joy and delight, as well as sadness and loss. Tamar spoke with Michael and Andrea in early May 2024, and the conversation takes on a new light now, as we continue to hold Fiona so closely in our hearts.Tamar Yoseloff has published seven collections, including The Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems (2015) and most recently, Belief Systems, which was a PBS Summer Recommendation in 2024. She's also the author of Formerly, a chapbook incorporating photographs by Vici MacDonald (Hercules Editions, 2012) shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. She was a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry and continues to teach independently. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2023.Tamar Yoseloff was one of Fiona's outstanding poetry mentors, having taught her on the MA in 2022, along with Glyn Maxwell. It is very fitting that Tammy is our guest this month, as we celebrate the arrival of Fiona's own collection of poetry: 'On the Brink of Touch', now available from Live Canon. Tamar Yoseloff and Glyn Maxwell, along with Helen Eastman of Live Canon, were all instrumental in ensuring Fiona's collection was published - something Fiona knew was going to happen, even if she didn't get to see her book its final form. 'On the Brink of Touch' is a work of great beauty and immense humanity, and it is extraordinary that we are all now able to hold it in our hands.Michael also mentions the memorial we held recently to remember and celebrate Fiona, which you can view anytime here.•••••••••Morningby Frank O'HaraI've got to tell youhow I love you alwaysI think of it on greymornings with deathin my mouth the teais never hot enoughthen and the cigarettedry the maroon robechills me I need youand look out the windowat the noiseless snowAt night on the dockthe buses glow likeclouds and I am lonelythinking of flutesI miss you alwayswhen I go to the beachthe sand is wet withtears that seem minealthough I never weepand hold you in myheart with a very realhumor you'd be proud ofthe parking lot iscrowded and I standrattling my keys the caris empty as a bicyclewhat are you doing nowwhere did you eat yourlunch and were therelots of anchovies itis difficult to thinkof you without me inthe sentence you depressme when you are aloneLast night the starswere numerous and todaysnow is their callingcard I'll not be cordialthere is nothing thatdistracts me music isonly a crossword puzzledo you know how it iswhen you are the onlypassenger if there is aplace further from meI beg you do not goFrom THE COLLECTED POEMS OF FRANK O'HARA © 1971 by Maureen Granville- Smith, renewed 1999 by Maureen O'Hara Granville-Smith and Donald Allen. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this latest episode, writer Rosie Garland talks to us about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'My Dark Horses' by Jodie Hollander.Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. Her poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark' (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021, & her novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight...with shades of Angela Carter.” Val McDermid has named her one of the UK's most compelling LGBT writers. http://www.rosiegarland.comJodie Hollander, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review and The Dark Horse. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press (Pavilion Poetry) in 2017. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published with Liverpool & Oxford University Press in the spring of 2023. https://www.jodiehollander.comRosie Garland is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange team members Sally Anglesea and John Prebble.In the introduction, Fiona also mentions Glyn Maxwell's extraordinary new collection, 'The Big Calls', which was published by Live Canon in March 2023.We hope you enjoy being with all the poems featured in this episode!*********My Dark Horsesby Jodie HollanderIf only I were more like my dark horses, I wouldn't have to worry all the time that I was running too little and resting too much. I'd spend my hours grazing in the sunlight, taking long naps in the vast pastures. And when it was time to move along I'd know; I'd spend some time with all those that I'd loved, then disappear into a gathering of trees.If only I were more like my dark horses, I wouldn't be so frightened of the storms; instead, when the clouds began to gather and fill I'd make my way calmly to the shed, and stand close to all the other horses. Together, we'd let the rain fall round us, knowing as darkness passes overhead that above all, this is the time to be still.From 'My Dark Horses' by Jodie Hollander, Liverpool University Press, 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian McMillan celebrates spectral spaces, the pulse of the body, and the power of repetition, in a Verb which showcases emerging talent - new sound designers from the Sound First scheme (a collaboration between BBC Contains Strong Language and Radio 3). Ian is joined by the songwriter, producer and sound designer Benbrick, the poet, playwright and performer Hannah Silva, and Sound First participant Noah Lawson, to explore what sound design can bring to poems, and what sounds are buried in poems themselves. The poems in this show - which the Sound First sound designers used as the basis for their work - were all commissioned for The Verb's 'Something New' series, marking 100 years of poetry on the BBC. Sound First work featured: Listening to Tennyson - poem by Rachael Boast, sound designer Noah Lawson Companion Piece - poem by Glyn Maxwell, sound designer Joe Chesterman The Truth is Never Too Old - poem by Roy McFarlane, sound designer Emily Kiely

In our latest episode, acclaimed poet, playwright and librettist Glyn Maxwell talks about the poem that has been a friend to him: 'Acquainted with the Night' by Robert Frost. Glyn is in conversation with Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer. Glyn Maxwell's volumes of poetry include The Breakage, Hide Now, Pluto, and How The Hell Are You, all of which were shortlisted for either the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. On Poetry, a guidebook for the general reader, was published by Oberon in 2012. The Spectator called it ‘a modern classic' and The Guardian's Adam Newey described it as ‘the best book about poetry I've ever read.' Drinks With Dead Poets, which is both an expansion of On Poetry and a novel in itself, was published by Oberon in September 2016. Many of Maxwell's plays have been staged in London and New York, including Liberty at Shakespeare's Globe, and at the Almeida, Arcola, RADA and Southwark Playhouse. ********* Acquainted with the Night By Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night. Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night" from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1964, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright 1936, 1942 © 1956 by Robert Frost. Copyright 1923, 1928, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co.

Ian McMillan is joined by poet Lucy Mercer whose latest collection is inspired by 16th-century emblems, behavioural scientist Nick Chater whose book The Language Game explores the development of language and conversation, debut novelist Tice Cin whose book Keeping the House tells the story of a Turkish Cypriot family in north London, and poet Glyn Maxwell with a newly commissioned work.

We sit down with Glyn Maxwell, esteemed poet, librettist, and verse playwright, to chat all things versical - particularly the intersection of the world of poetry and the stage. If you haven't, check out his On Poetry - an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about writing in verse. To hear a bit of Cyrano de Bergarac by Maxwell, listen here. To read Claire Helie's article on Glyn Maxwell, see Coup de Theatre. Like what you hear? Consider supporting us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/hamlettohamilton

Michael Rosen explores the sound and rhythm of English with acclaimed poet Glyn Maxwell. From nursery rhymes and nonsense poetry to Shakespeare and Bob Dylan. Producer: Melvin Rickarby

W H Auden called his longest poem, The Age of Anxiety a baroque eclogue - a description which hints at its rich complexity. Its account of a meeting between four strangers in a New York bar inspired Leonard Bernstein’s second symphony and was much admired by T S Eliot. The writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark explore some of the intricacies of the poem with Matthew Sweet and explain how Auden has influenced their poetry and prose. Producer: Zahid Warley

David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with Philip Dodd and an audience at Aldeburgh in a discussion exploring Britten's relationship with radio in Britain and in America, with his subjects as varied as mountaineering (with words from Christopher Isherwood), a dramatisation of Homer's Odyssey and short stories by D.H. Lawrence (with a young W.H. Auden). But why was Britten so reluctant to accept a job at the BBC's Music department in the 1930s? David Hendy is a historian of the BBC and Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex.Glyn Maxwell is a poet and librettist who has traced the journey of Auden and MacNeice to Iceland.Kate Kennedy is a biographer and editor of the forthcoming ‘Literary Britten'Lucy Walker is Director of Programmes and Learning at the Britten-Pears Foundation. Recorded in front of an audience as part of the Britten on the Radio weekend at the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings.Producer: Fiona McLean.

The relationship between fathers and daughters has been the subject of countless cultural explorations down the centuries, from Elektra's distress to Bonjour Tristesse. Some of them are idealised ('To Kill A Mockingbird', 'All the Lights We Cannot See'); some highly damaging and dysfunctional ('This is England', 'The Beggar's Opera'); some, as any A'Level pupil who's studied 'King Lear' can attest, are both. What is clear in all these cases is just how particular and powerful the relationship can be, and in this highly personal programme Lauren Laverne heads home to team up with her own dad, Les, to talk about their relationship and how it matches up with some of these cultural imaginings. Among anecdotes about growing up in Sunderland and later on Les playing roadie to Lauren's gigs with the likes of the Ramones, we also hear from artists who in one way or another are engaging with the dad/daughter relationship now, including Helen MacDonald, Glyn Maxwell and The Unthanks. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Geoff Bird.

Home-grown international pop singer Aura is about to fly in for a concert when an aftershock destroys the runway. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Ximaon-born Rafi lives in the UK with his family but is back home to see his father when the disaster strikes. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Crista has just received a worrying text from her grandfather. It’s time to wake mum. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

The digital volunteers are overwhelmed by SMS messages coming out of the earthquake zone when a little boy walks in, wanting to help. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Italian barman, Fabio is desperate to get away and it’s not just the earthquake that he’s afraid of. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Character: Rossy Location: Junction of Main Road and Coast Road, Ximao South Island. There's a chemical cloud in the sky. Can Rossy’s experience flying the hospital drone help the International Search and Rescue team? Partially supported by The European Broadcasting Union. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

SAR Chief, Thandok leads his determined team as they search for survivors. Will the trapped man escape? Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Brandon’s afternoon with Snark and Keller is unexpectedly cut short as the stakes are raised. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Trapped and waiting to be rescued, Lady and Frankie bravely continue to broadcast Lifeline. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Frantic but safe, Maria hasn't heard from her brother in months and has no idea where he is. She’s got his number but he’s not answering. A seemingly friendly stranger in a car stops to help. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

Thousands of miles away, Claire’s plans for the evening are just about to change, much to the annoyance of her husband Mark. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

The earthquake brings unexpected opportunities for Yolo who has a score to settle. Written by Glyn Maxwell. Directed and produced by Sharon Sephton.

in which Steven and i talk about poetic theory, anime, and how other art mediums can influence poetry for an obscene amount of time... twitter: @sdleyva Little Patuxent Review: https://littlepatuxentreview.org/ other things referenced: Fences by August Wilson - http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/327272/fences-by-august-wilson/9780735216686 The Place Promised in Our Early Days by Makoto Shinkai - http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-place-promised-in-our-early-days Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html Five Came Back - https://www.netflix.com/title/80049928 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck - https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Iris-Louise-Gluck/dp/0880013346 "Have Your Prayed" by Li-Young Lee - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52208 Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky - https://www.tupelopress.org/product/dancing-in-odessa/ "Responsibilities of the poet" by Robert Pinsky - http://harpers.org/archive/1987/08/responsibilities-of-the-poet/ Proofs and Theories by Lousie Gluck - https://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Theories-Louise-Gluck/dp/0880014423 Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud - http://www.jessethompsonart.com/artpage/Pre_C_drawing_Video_files/Understanding%20Comics%20(The%20Invisible%20Art)%20By%20Scott%20McCloud.pdf On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell - http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970823&content=reviews "Playing Levee" by Steven Leyva - http://www.scalawagmagazine.org/articles/playing-levee "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" by Robert Duncan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/46317 "Pantoum of the Great Depression" by Donald Justice - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58080 Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke by Susan Napier - http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780312238629 mukokuseki - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki mono no aware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

Five writers talk about what black and white evokes for them. Glyn Maxwell looks at the words on his page and thinks about whether we've all become too black and white, too binary in our digital lives. It's possible that we lost something valuable in the spectrum of grays afforded by analogue.

This week on "A Way with Words": The best way to read poetry. When you pick up a book of poems, how many do you read in one sitting? Some people devour several in a row, while others savor them much more slowly. Plus, it's a problem faced by politicians and public speakers:  When you have to stand in front of people, what do you do with your hands? German Chancellor Angela Merkel came up with a solution. She positions her fingers in a special way that's become so closely associated with her, it now has its own name. And what does it mean if someone says you're "a real pipperoo"? Plus, orange grove vs. orange orchard, Pilish, ducksnorts and duckfarts, and the worst online passwords imaginable.FULL DETAILSOn March 14, or 3/14, fans of both dessert and decimals come together to celebrate Pi Day. This year, though, it's not enough to call it at 3/14, because it's 3/14/15, and at 9:26 and 53 seconds, the first ten digits of pi will all be aligned. Speaking of aligning the digits, there's also a form of writing called pilish, where the sequential words in a passage each have an amount of letters that corresponds with the numbers in pi.A swinging song by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra called "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" drops the line What a gal, a real pipperoo. A homeschooling family in Maine wonders just what a pipperoo is. For one, the suffix -eroo is a jokey ending sometimes added for comic effect, as with switcheroo and flopperoo. Pipperoo may derive from a particularly desirable type of apple called a pippin. And the jokey suffix -eroo is added for comic effect, as with switcheroo and flopperoo. So calling someone a pipperoo is fond way of saying, in effect, you're a peach.Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan once observed that a poem should act like a clown suitcase, one you can open up and never quit emptying.In East Tennessee, if someone invites you to a "fire," don't be alarmed—there's a chance they're talking about a fair. A former Floridian who moved to that part of the country has been collecting some funny stories about local pronunciations.Even foreign dignitaries can be plagued with the age-old problem of standing around in public: what do you do with your hands? German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken to holding her hands in a certain way so often that it's been named the Merkel-Raute, or Merkel rhombus, which pretty accurately describes the shape she's making.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game where you have to guess what three clues—like Bob, Tom, and Allie or bulb, silver, and month—have in common.A ducksnort in softball or baseball will never make the highlight reel. It's often a blooper of a hit that lands between the infield and the far outfield, but still gets the job done. Paul Dickson, author of the authoritative Dickson Baseball Dictionary, explains the original version of the term: duckfart. White Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson is credited with popularizing the more family-friendly version.Are your Internet passwords bad enough to make the Worst Passwords List? An Internet security firm put out a list of bad ideas, and among them are things like baseball, football, car models, and your kid's name.The Blind Tiger was a speakeasy during prohibition, perhaps so named because patrons would hand over money to peek at a fictitious blind animal, but also receive illegal booze as part of the bargain. The terms blind tiger and blind pig eventually came to describe a kind of liquor—one so powerful it could make you go blind, at least for a while. A Tallahassee, Florida, caller says one of his ancestors was gunned down by a gang called the Blind Tigers.A Wisconsin listener says that when her body gets an involuntary, inexplicable shudder, she says A goose walked over my grave. An early version of the saying, There's somebody walking over my grave! appears in a 1738 book by Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, in Three Dialogues. The phrase is generally used to describe an eerie premonition, though A goose walked over our grave may be used at that moment when a conversation falls silent.Retcon, short for retroactive continuity, is the phenomenon commonly used in video games, comic books, and soap operas where something from a past plotline is changed in order for what's happening in the present to make sense. Also along those lines is a ret canon, used to blow up a problem from the past.Glyn Maxwell, in a recent review of the book Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, argues that reading the sonnets altogether in a collection is a little strange, since many of them are worth more attention than they'll get if you read through them all quickly. Grant explains a similar problem he's had with poetry, but in going back to Langston Hughes' poems, he finds that trying not to focus on the rhyme or rhythm allows him to more fully understand the meaning of the words. A Spotswood, Virginia, listener came across the phrase steppin' and fetchin' used in a positive way to describe a speedy race run by the great horse Secretariat. But the phrase has an ugly past. To step and fetch is how many people once described the job of a slave or handyman, and Stepin Fetchit was a famous actor who often played the stereotype of the lazy black man. The documentary Ethnic Notions covers some of the history of this racially charged imagery. A new book called Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation, by veteran travel writer Jan Morris, celebrates the Venetian artist Carpaccio, who often used swaths of bright red in his paintings. His color choice is said to be the inspiration for beef or tuna carpaccio, slices of which are similarly deep red in the middle.What's the difference between an orchard and a grove? People plant orchards with trees meant to bear fruit or nuts, whereas groves aren't necessarily planted. So an orange grove might be more accurately called an orange orchard. The problem is, orange orchard doesn't sound nearly as pleasant as orange grove.Shrilk, a new substance made out of shrimp shells and silk, is gaining popularity as a substitute for plastic. We can still pretty much guarantee that, "One word: shrilk," will never be a classic movie line.We all know that gesture people do, sometimes ironically, where you wipe or smack your hands together to signify that a job's done. There's no common term for it, but a Schenectady, New York, listener has a great suggestion: all-done clappy hands.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2016, Wayword LLC.

This week on "A Way with Words": The best way to read poetry. When you pick up a book of poems, how many do you read in one sitting? Some people devour several in a row, while others savor them much more slowly. Plus, it's a problem faced by politicians and public speakers:  When you have to stand in front of people, what do you do with your hands? German Chancellor Angela Merkel came up with a solution. She positions her fingers in a special way that's become so closely associated with her, it now has its own name. And what does it mean if someone says you're "a real pipperoo"? Plus, orange grove vs. orange orchard, Pilish, ducksnorts and duckfarts, and the worst online passwords imaginable.FULL DETAILSOn March 14, or 3/14, fans of both dessert and decimals come together to celebrate Pi Day. This year, though, it's not enough to call it at 3/14, because it's 3/14/15, and at 9:26 and 53 seconds, the first ten digits of pi will all be aligned. Speaking of aligning the digits, there's also a form of writing called pilish, where the sequential words in a passage each have an amount of letters that corresponds with the numbers in pi.A swinging song by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra called "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" drops the line What a gal, a real pipperoo. A homeschooling family in Maine wonders just what a pipperoo is. For one, the suffix -eroo is a jokey ending sometimes added for comic effect, as with switcheroo and flopperoo. Pipperoo may derive from a particularly desirable type of apple called a pippin. And the jokey suffix -eroo is added for comic effect, as with switcheroo and flopperoo. So calling someone a pipperoo is fond way of saying, in effect, you're a peach.Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan once observed that a poem should act like a clown suitcase, one you can open up and never quit emptying.In East Tennessee, if someone invites you to a "fire," don't be alarmed—there's a chance they're talking about a fair. A former Floridian who moved to that part of the country has been collecting some funny stories about local pronunciations.Even foreign dignitaries can be plagued with the age-old problem of standing around in public: what do you do with your hands? German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken to holding her hands in a certain way so often that it's been named the Merkel-Raute, or Merkel rhombus, which pretty accurately describes the shape she's making.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game where you have to guess what three clues—like Bob, Tom, and Allie or bulb, silver, and month—have in common.A ducksnort in softball or baseball will never make the highlight reel. It's often a blooper of a hit that lands between the infield and the far outfield, but still gets the job done. Paul Dickson, author of the authoritative Dickson Baseball Dictionary, explains the original version of the term: duckfart. White Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson is credited with popularizing the more family-friendly version.Are your Internet passwords bad enough to make the Worst Passwords List? An Internet security firm put out a list of bad ideas, and among them are things like baseball, football, car models, and your kid's name.The Blind Tiger was a speakeasy during prohibition, perhaps so named because patrons would hand over money to peek at a fictitious blind animal, but also receive illegal booze as part of the bargain. The terms blind tiger and blind pig eventually came to describe a kind of liquor—one so powerful it could make you go blind, at least for a while. A Tallahassee, Florida, caller says one of his ancestors was gunned down by a gang called the Blind Tigers.A Wisconsin listener says that when her body gets an involuntary, inexplicable shudder, she says A goose walked over my grave. An early version of the saying, There's somebody walking over my grave! appears in a 1738 book by Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, in Three Dialogues. The phrase is generally used to describe an eerie premonition, though A goose walked over our grave may be used at that moment when a conversation falls silent.Retcon, short for retroactive continuity, is the phenomenon commonly used in video games, comic books, and soap operas where something from a past plotline is changed in order for what's happening in the present to make sense. Also along those lines is a ret canon, used to blow up a problem from the past.Glyn Maxwell, in a recent review of the book Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, argues that reading the sonnets altogether in a collection is a little strange, since many of them are worth more attention than they'll get if you read through them all quickly. Grant explains a similar problem he's had with poetry, but in going back to Langston Hughes' poems, he finds that trying not to focus on the rhyme or rhythm allows him to more fully understand the meaning of the words. A Spotswood, Virginia, listener came across the phrase steppin' and fetchin' used in a positive way to describe a speedy race run by the great horse Secretariat. But the phrase has an ugly past. To step and fetch is how many people once described the job of a slave or handyman, and Stepin Fetchit was a famous actor who often played the stereotype of the lazy black man. The documentary Ethnic Notions covers some of the history of this racially charged imagery. A new book called Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation, by veteran travel writer Jan Morris, celebrates the Venetian artist Carpaccio, who often used swaths of bright red in his paintings. His color choice is said to be the inspiration for beef or tuna carpaccio, slices of which are similarly deep red in the middle.What's the difference between an orchard and a grove? People plant orchards with trees meant to bear fruit or nuts, whereas groves aren't necessarily planted. So an orange grove might be more accurately called an orange orchard. The problem is, orange orchard doesn't sound nearly as pleasant as orange grove.Shrilk, a new substance made out of shrimp shells and silk, is gaining popularity as a substitute for plastic. We can still pretty much guarantee that, "One word: shrilk," will never be a classic movie line.We all know that gesture people do, sometimes ironically, where you wipe or smack your hands together to signify that a job's done. There's no common term for it, but a Schenectady, New York, listener has a great suggestion: all-done clappy hands.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

In this podcast, recorded in August during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Glyn Maxwell (http://www.glynmaxwell.com/) reads poems from his most recent collection Pluto (Picador) and talks with our Programme Manager, Jennifer Williams, about the breath and blood of poetry, how actors are the best first readers, why Auden is so important to his work and much more. Photo by David Shankbone.

Glyn Maxwell offers us a guide to reading poetry in seven chapters: ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Form’, ‘Pulse’, ‘Chime’, ‘Space’ and ‘Time’. Described by Katy Evans-Bush in Poetry Review as being ‘as highly charged as a stick of poetry dynamite’, On Poetry sold out its first printing in less than a week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are delighted to bring you a special April episode of The Poetic Voice. This episode includes selections from The Poetic Voice's inaugural year and features eight poets - both modern masters and fresh voices - reading from their work. Contents: Donald Hall reads "Affirmation" from White Apples and the Taste of Stone; David Tucker reads "The Dancer" from Late for Work; Michael Collier reads "Birds Appearing in a Dream" from Dark Wild Realm; Ron Slate reads "The Final Call" from The Incentive of the Maggot; Natasha Trethewey reads "Self" from Native Guard; Galway Kinnell reads "Middle Path" from Strong Is Your Hold; Glyn Maxwell reads "Harry In The Dark" from The Sugar Mile; and Alan Shapiro reads the first and second sections of "Tantalus In Love" from Tantalus In Love.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are delighted to bring you a special April episode of The Poetic Voice. This episode includes selections from The Poetic Voice's inaugural year and features eight poets - both modern masters and fresh voices - reading from their work. Contents: Donald Hall reads "Affirmation" from White Apples and the Taste of Stone; David Tucker reads "The Dancer" from Late for Work; Michael Collier reads "Birds Appearing in a Dream" from Dark Wild Realm; Ron Slate reads "The Final Call" from The Incentive of the Maggot; Natasha Trethewey reads "Self" from Native Guard; Galway Kinnell reads "Middle Path" from Strong Is Your Hold; Glyn Maxwell reads "Harry In The Dark" from The Sugar Mile; and Alan Shapiro reads the first and second sections of "Tantalus In Love" from Tantalus In Love.

This episode features Glyn Maxwell reading from and discussing his collection The Sugar Mile. The stirring verse narrative of The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. Encountering Joe Stone, a fellow Brit and a barstool regular, the narrator becomes the fated scribe of Joe's memories of London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Glyn Maxwell is the poetry editor of the New Republic and the author of four New York Times Notable Books. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize.

This episode features Glyn Maxwell reading from and discussing his collection The Sugar Mile. The stirring verse narrative of The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. Encountering Joe Stone, a fellow Brit and a barstool regular, the narrator becomes the fated scribe of Joe's memories of London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Glyn Maxwell is the poetry editor of the New Republic and the author of four New York Times Notable Books. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize.