A combined reading and analysis of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, examining its carpe diem argument, witty conceits, and the urgency of love in the face of mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of the Witches’ Chant from Macbeth, focusing on how the trochaic tetrameter and rhyming couplets create an atmosphere of supernatural evil.
An experimental reggae setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, demonstrating how the poem’s themes of love and immortality translate into a contemporary musical form.
An illustrated reading of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, accompanied by images of autumn that complement the poem’s meditation on childhood, sorrow, and mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, exploring its themes of beauty, love, and the power of poetry to confer immortality.
A combined reading and analysis of the first sonnet of Swinburne’s Hermaphroditus, exploring its classical mythology, themes of gender and beauty, and its place in the Victorian Aesthetic movement.
A combined reading and analysis of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, exploring its themes of childhood innocence, the awareness of mortality, and Hopkins’s distinctive sprung rhythm.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Oxen, a Christmas poem exploring nostalgia, lost faith, and the yearning for a simpler rural past.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush, examining its themes of hope and despair at the turn of the century, and the unexpected song of the thrush in a winter landscape.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Voice, a moving elegy exploring grief, memory, and the haunting presence of a lost love.