Past Broadcasts

Another visit from our special guest Radhika, with a beautiful poem about a rose.

In this episode, I highlight the way that poets make use of specific numbers of syllables in their stanzas to appeal to the reader and talk a little about how that kind of rhythm and tempo transcends…

In this episode, I explore some international poetry. I read the original, in Hindi, followed by the translation by Lucy Rosenstein.

Listen to the poem in the poet's voice here: https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-whyte-sometimes

For a special episode of Lunch Poetry, Radhika reads Night on the mountain during one of our walks around UBC.