Season 1 · 9 Episodes

A Season of Love

From the oldest love poem ever written to the quiet, unheroic devotion that holds a life together — a journey across continents and centuries in search of what love truly is. Ancient Egypt, Chile, Bengal, Yorkshire, India, Russia. Nine poems. One inexhaustible feeling.

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1Episode
Ancient Egypt · circa 1200 BC

This Love

Anonymous · Translated by Michael V. Fox

Three thousand years before anyone wrote a sonnet, one voice tried to say what love does from the inside.

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2Episode
Pablo Neruda · Chile, 1924

I Do Not Love You

Pablo Neruda · Sonnet XVII

He reaches downward — into soil, shadow, and secret. Into a love so deep it has no name for itself.

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3Episode
Craig Santos Perez · after Neruda

Love in a Time of Climate Change

Craig Santos Perez

A love poem for a warming world — borrowed from Neruda, rewritten for now.

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4Episode
U.A. Fanthorpe · 1995

Atlas

U.A. Fanthorpe

Most love poems give you roses. This one gives you WD40. The most heroic love is the kind that shows up.

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5Episode
Rabindranath Tagore · Bengal, 1890

Eternal Love

Rabindranath Tagore

What if you have loved this person before — in other lifetimes, other ages — and simply recognise them again?

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6Episode
Diane di Prima & Vicki Feaver

Two Love Poems, One Message

Diane di Prima & Vicki Feaver

Two short poems, one message. One of the most tender portraits of love in the American tradition.

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7Episode
Blake Morrison

Against Dieting

Blake Morrison

A Yorkshire poet arrives at six words that say everything love should say.

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8Episode
Joseph Brodsky · Nobel Laureate

Love Song

Joseph Brodsky

Perhaps the funniest love poem a Nobel Laureate has ever produced — absurd hypotheticals, and a punchline that lands like a quiet truth.

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9Episode
Kabir · India, 15th century

The Loom of My Mind

Kabir

What do you do with love when your beloved isn't in the room? Weave their name into everything.

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