A poetry podcast · New episodes every Friday
Gentle Verses for Quiet Nights
One poem per episode, savored slowly — with warmth and full attention. From a lovestruck scribe in ancient Egypt to Neruda, Tagore, Brodsky. Best taken with some camomile tea, and a closed door.
Each episode offers one carefully chosen poem — savored slowly, with warmth and full attention. Because poetry holds all of it: love and loss, solitude and seasons, the small mysteries of being alive. And somehow, it makes all of it better.
From a reed pen in ancient Egypt to a Nobel laureate in exile, from the devotion of a medieval weaver to the exasperated tenderness of a Yorkshire husband — love in all its forms. Passionate and patient, cosmic and domestic, serious and laugh-out-loud funny. A full portrait of words and tenderness.
The love that remains unfulfilled — it never gets to speak. The letter unsent, the name worn smooth by thinking. The heartache of the one-sided lover, the pining that has no end, the yearning that fills empty rooms. Season 2 arrives soon — with some of the most devastatingly beautiful poetry ever written about love that could not, or would not, be returned.
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