A combined reading and analysis of the Witches’ Chant from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, focusing on its trochaic tetrameter and the way metre and rhythm 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.
A combined reading and analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, exploring its themes of beauty, love, and the power of poetry to confer immortality.
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 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.
An illustrated reading of Hardy’s The Voice, accompanied by images evoking the poem’s landscape of grief, memory, and lost love.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Voice, a moving elegy exploring grief, memory, and the haunting presence of a lost love.
A concise analysis of Arnold’s Dover Beach, covering its key themes of religious doubt, modernity, and the search for meaning in an uncertain world.