Poetry Cafe
You enjoy listening to poems? Responding to them? Discussing them? Even analyzing them?
On every second and fourth Thursday, at 13.06, we do precisely that in a series of programmes, in English.
For example, we read poems by Roger McGough, Liverpool pop poet of the 1960s and now the presenter of BBC Radio 4′ s popular request programme ‚Poetry Please‘. And yes, we too at Freirad hope that you will ask for particular poems to be read and discussed.
A taster? Here’s a short poem by Roger:
Once upon a love
we spent our nights
blowing kisses across
the pillow
now we spend them
throwing plates across the kitchen
We hope your relationship is not quite like this! Mind you, it is said to be an old story: „It starts when you sink into his arms, and it ends with your arms in his sink.“
We’ll also be listening to pop songs and talking about them. After all, so many poems are singable. Take Leonard Cohen, for example. Also, many English composers (eg. Benjamin Britten) set poems to music.
In our programmes we will also be running a Poetry Workshop. Here you can learn how to actually write poems. In fact, we will be running a Poetry Competition.
So, „Turn on, tune in and drop out“, as the 1960s guru Timothy Leary said!
The signature tune of Poetry Cafe is Erik Satie’s ‚Gymnopedie no. 1‘, jazzed up by the Jacques Loussier Trio
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- POetry Cafe 33: „The Mersey Sound“ Liverpool Pop Poets and Music,... aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 29.03.2016 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 32: 20th.c. Poetry (no. 6): Contemporary Poetry aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 01.02.2016 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 31: 20th c. Poetry: no. 5: Post-War Poetry aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 01.02.2016 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 30: Christmas Edition, Dec 24 aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 28.12.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 29: Inter-War Poetry: Poems of the 1920s & 1930s aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 17.12.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 28: 20th.c. Poetry: no. 3 (of 6) T.S. Eliot aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 30.11.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 27: From the Georgians and an Imagist to the First World War aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 12.11.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 26: 20th.c. Poetry in English aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 02.11.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry 25: Birds aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 08.10.2015 | FREIRAD
- Poetry Cafe 24: Rain aus der Sendereihe „Poetry Cafe“ 28.09.2015 | FREIRAD