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Episode 10 - Exploring A. K. Ramanujan's Poetic Masterpieces
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Episode 9 - Imtiaz Dharker
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Episode 8 - K. Satchidanandan
September 12, 2023 · 9 minThis week in Poetry - Episode Eight. In the coming weeks, we shall explore the amazing variety of poems in English written by Indian poets from the Pithamahan of Modernism, Nissim Ezekiel to the very young like Sivakami Velliyangiri, with…
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Episode 7 - Ars Poetica and Other Poems
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Episode 6 - W.B. Yeats and Bharathi Dasan
August 22, 2023 · 11 minWelcome back to This Week in Poetry. Oh, I am absolutely thrilled to be back with my listeners after a break. We shall begin our new season, visiting some of the great minds who made a huge difference to the ways creativity and poetic…
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Episode 5 - Thomas Hood, Billy Collins and Meera
August 22, 2023 · 11 minIn this episode, we have an impressive playlist of poems. We being with a reading of a poem by Billy Collins, an American poet. We also have Thomas Hood from the romantic period, and we close the episode with a poem by Meera. Needless to…
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Episode 4 - Shakespeare, Frost and Kavikko Abdul Rahman
August 22, 2023 · 8 minEpisode 4: Shakespeare, Frost and Kavikko Abdul Rahman Professor Nedumaran welcomes viewers to this week’s poetry episode and introduces readings from “the Masters,” naming William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, and Kavikko Abdul Rahman. He…
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Episode 3 - A.K. Ramanujan
August 22, 2023 · 11 minThis Week in Poetry: A. K. Ramanujan’s “Waiting,” “Farewells,” “Returning,” and “Daily Drivel” Professor Nedumaran introduces an episode of “This Week in Poetry” featuring poems from A. K. Ramanujan’s Uncollected Poems and Prose (Oxford…
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Episode 2 - Nissim Ezekiel
August 22, 2023 · 9 minHello there! Welcome to This week in Poetry with Prof. Nedumaran. In this episode we will be exploring the poems of Nissim Ezekiel.“Best poets wait for words”- Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher. Nissim Ezekiel waited for his words throughout his…
About the show
This Week in Poetry with Prof. Nedumaran is a podcast series aimed at fostering a passion for poetry through listening to select poems as they are read by an expert. Prof. R. Nedumaran with his thirty some years of teaching and living poetry at The American College, Madurai reads poems of his choice from English and Tamil Literatures for your listening pleasure.
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