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Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 10 – World Cup football poems

The FIFA World Cup gives your hosts, Pele Cox and Rich Uridge, a golden opportunity to explore oral tradition and other strong but less obvious links between football and poetry. All in about the time it takes to get to a hydration break. The perfect warm up for England v Ghana and Scotland v Brazil. […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 10 – World Cup football poems [https://pelecox.com/2026/06/23/peles-poetry-podcast-episode-10-world-cup-football-poems/] appeared first on Pelé Cox [https://pelecox.com].

Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 9 – Can Poetry Make You Happy?

Choosing John Clare, John Keats, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath to explore whether poetry can make you happy isn’t an obvious starting point. All four experienced the very opposite of happiness in their variously and famously tragic lives. So perhaps it was a trick question? But maybe, on reflection, it’s the perfect choice. Make up […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 9 – Can Poetry Make You Happy? [https://pelecox.com/2026/06/13/peles-poetry-podcast-episode-9-can-poetry-make-you-happy/] appeared first on Pelé Cox [https://pelecox.com].

Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 8 – Forbidden Love

Great art begets great art. That’s certainly the case with the Greek poet, Constantine P Cavafy, whose poetry inspired a young British artist – now a household name – as Pele Cox and Rich Uridge reveal as they explore forbidden love as a source of inspiration for poets from Gunn to Whitman. Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 8 – Forbidden Love [https://pelecox.com/2026/05/14/peles-poetry-podcast-episode-9-forbidden-love/] appeared first on Pelé Cox [https://pelecox.com].

Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 7 – The A E Housman Shropshire Lad one

On the 90th anniversary of his death, Shropshire lad, Richard Uridge and Shropshire lass, Pele Cox, discuss the life and works of the poet, A E Housman. They agree that his poetry is every bit as relevant today as when it was first written at the turn of the 20th century. And they discover that […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 7 – The A E Housman Shropshire Lad one [https://pelecox.com/2026/04/30/peles-poetry-podcast-episode-7-the-a-e-housman-shropshire-lad-one/] appeared first on Pelé Cox [https://pelecox.com].

Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 6 – The Wuthering Heights one

With Margot Robbie as Cathy in the latest iteration of Wuthering Heights, your hosts argue that without poetry Emily Brontë’s book wouldn’t have been written. So no roles for Robbie and her Heathcliff, Jacob Elordi. No Kate Bush song. No poems of the same name by Sylvia Plath or Ted Hughes. The evidence? Well, Pele […] The post Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 6 – The Wuthering Heights one [https://pelecox.com/2026/02/23/peles-poetry-podcast-episode-6-the-wuthering-heights-one/] appeared first on Pelé Cox [https://pelecox.com].