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On this month’s Poetry Podcast, Robert Pinsky reads and discusses
Elizabeth Bishop’s classic poem “At the Fishhouses,” which first
appeared in the magazine in 1947.

openculture.com James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)

As much as it is about every part of Dublin that ever passed by James Joyce’s once-young eyes, Ulysses is also a book about books, and about writing and speech—as mythic invocation, as seduction, chatter, and rhetoric, fulsome and empty.

loki-stole-my-cookies:

Ssh. Just sit back and listen.

oupacademic:

Barry B. Powell reads Book 1, Lines 1-155, from his new free verse translation of The Odyssey by Homer. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

national-theatre:

This BBC 4 Radio Extra series celebrates the National Theatre’s history with a compilation of exclusive interviews and performance clips from from the past 50 years.
For more content from the National Theatre’s 50th celebrations click here.

violentwavesofemotion:

Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes: Rare BBC Interview On Literature & Love
_{“Two people…who are compatible in this sort of spiritual way, in fact make up one person…one source of power, which you both use and you can draw out material in incredible detail from the single shared mind.”}