Requisite Words Podcast

Spend some time contemplating an ambiguous curse as we listen to Alfred Tennyson's best-known narrative poem, "The Lady of Shalott" (1842 version). Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Image: Photo by Engin Akyurt from Pexels - www.pexels.com/photo/brown-knitted-textile-1487703/

We veer away from poetry this episode and crash into a recurring question from aspiring writers: the ideal writing environment. I share "A home for my words," a reflection I wrote for Medium a couple of years ago, amended slightly for the podcast. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Image: Photo by Peter Ravlich Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In which we admire Elizabeth Barrett Browning's biting call-out of Victorian hypocrisy and gender politics, A Man's Requirements. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, public domain image from WikiMedia.org

In this episode, we unpack and reflect on Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, by Matthew Arnold. Content warning: contains some mild swearing. Episode Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dreamers Of The Day by Serge Narcissoff | https://soundcloud.com/sergenarcissoff Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Requisite Words is a podcast about poetry and its place in modern lives. Alternate episodes will share and then discuss a diverse range of poems from around the world. This opening episode is a reading of Matthew Arnold's 1851 work, "Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse," a poem that touches on notions of value, transience and upheaval. Opening Music: Be Chillin’ by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery by Floriel (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Floriel) License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Image colour corrected and cropped from original.