Episodios

  • Ep: 51 - To Night (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
    Jun 11 2025

    Dominic reads Shelley's 'To Night'. Hope you enjoy the poem! The word of the day is Damask.


    ****Music is Lazarus from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John '. All rights reserved. ****#Shelley #Romanticism #poetry #np #englishpoetry #Keats #Wordsworth #night #day ****


    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (damask): 00:22

    Commentary on odes: 00:52

    The poem in full: 02:11

    Further reading recommendations: 04:17

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 05:24


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  • Ep: 50 - In Memory of W. B. Yeats (W. H. Auden)
    Jun 4 2025

    Dominic reads W. H. Auden's 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats ' as requested by Joe Smith.

    Hope you all enjoy the poem!


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    The music is 'Lazarus', from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist.


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    Introduction 00:00

    Welcome to episode fifty: 00:13

    Word of the day (Bourse): 01:00

    Background on W. H. Auden: 01:38

    The poem in full: 04:46

    Further reading recommendations: 09:21

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined: 10:51


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  • Ep: 49 - Sonnet 43: How do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    May 28 2025

    Dominic reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet no. 43! Hope you enjoy it!


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    The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist.


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    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (valorous): 00:19

    Background of EBB: 00:37

    The poem in full: 05:13

    Further reading recommendations: 06:38

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined: 07:59


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    #EBB #BarretBrowning #np #newupload #Browning #poetry #Woolf #OWC #OUP #UpNext #Romanticpoetry #poems #Poetrycommunity #Indiepods #newpost #spotifypoetry

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  • Ep: 48 - She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
    May 21 2025

    Dominic reads Lord Byron's romantic poem, 'She walks in Beauty'.


    The word of the day is: Tress


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    The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved.


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    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (Tress): 00:14

    Notes on the poem: 00:36

    The poem in full: 03:09

    Further reading recommendations: 04:35

    Review of the podcast: 07:26

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 08:48


    ****#Byron #LordByron #Romantics #poetry #findpoems #np #indiepod #supportindie #follow #Love #newep #poetrycommunity #poemsspotify #spotifypoems #discoverpoetry #classics

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  • Ep: 47 - Toads (Philip Larkin)
    May 14 2025

    Dominic reads Larkin's sardonic, witty, and luminous poem, Toads. Enjoy!


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    Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John' All rights reserved to the artist.


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    #Larkin #poetry #Spotifypoems #theotherLaureate #Coventry #Midlandspoetry #Hull #Dublin #Oxford #Whitsunweddings #Highwindows #np #toolsofpoetry #discoverpoetry #lovepoetry #bio #read #amreading #poemsforall #spotifypod #indiepod #poems #follow #rate #comment #review #PhilipLarkin #toads #toadsrevisted #larkinian


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    Introduction and thanks: 00:00

    Word of the day (Elusive): 00:38

    Background on Philip Larkin: 00:54

    Quick note on the poem: 04:16

    The Poem in full: 05:15

    Further reading and recommendations: 07:03

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 07:58 ****

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  • Ep: 46 - Sweeney among the Nightingales (T. S. Eliot)
    May 7 2025

    Dominic reads and delves into T. S. Eliot's 'Sweeney among the nightingales'

    Enjoy!


    Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John ' all rights reserved.


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    #TSEliot #eliot #modernists #crow #raven #lines #poems #poetry #agamemnon #greek #classics #poetry #mortalblow #Aeschylus
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    Chapters:

    Intro: 00:00

    Podcast expansion: 00:45

    Word of the day: 02:45

    T.S Eliot's background: 03:06

    Related to the poem : 05:29

    Line-by-line analysis: 09:16

    The poem in full: 28:49

    What are your thoughts on the poem? : 30:57

    Further reading recommendations: 32:06

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes: 34:57

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  • Ep: 45 - Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning)
    Apr 30 2025

    Dominic reads and explores Browning's masterful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Porphyria's Lover.


    Word of the day: Idoneous, meaning 'appropriate'.



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    Music used is Dominic's 'Lazarus' from his 2021 piano album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved. Copyright.



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    #NP #poetry #Browning #upload #Porphyria #EBB #RB #Wilde #Macbeth #Victorianpoetry #London #Newpost #indiepoetrypod #TDT #Coleridge #Shakespeare #spotifypoems


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    (00:00) Introduction

    (00:25) The Macbeth Curse

    (02:13) Improvements to the podcast

    (03:41) Word of the day - Idoneous

    (04:05) Trigger warning!

    (04:20) We're back to the Victorian poets again

    (04:44) A brief history of Browning

    (06:34) Opinions on Browning's poetry by the modernists

    (07:12) A murderous poem/monologue

    (07:46) Theories abound!

    (09:34) More analysis...the symbolic nature of purple

    (10:14) Theological connections

    (12:57) Romanticism and the 'sublime'

    (14:16) Alterations to the title

    (14:36) Following Wilde, we return to another scene of parricide!

    (15:05) Further analysis

    (17:11) Epizeuxis

    (18:38) Social class...

    (20:19) Infantile...doll-like

    (20:46) Posing questions and introducing mysteries

    (21:06) The man from Porlock returns!

    (21:58) The Poem in full

    (26:18) Starting a new thing

    (26:33) Further recommended reading

    (27:03) Up next on The Dominic Tapes!















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  • Ep: 44 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Macbeth's Final Soliloquy, William Shakespeare)
    Apr 23 2025

    Dominic reads some Shakespeare on the Bard's birthday!

    Please consider commenting, rating, and sharing the podcast with likeminded friends!


    (0:00) Introduction

    (0:20) Shakespeare on the podcast

    (1:56) Macbeth's struggles

    (5:37) (Word/phrase of the day is: Walking Gentleman - A player who generally steps in to play the meagre roles in a theatre company (archaic).

    (6:09) More detail

    (6:31) McKellen's last word of every line within the soliloquy

    (7:58) The soliloquy in full


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    Music is 'Lazarus' by Dominic Mason, from the piano album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved. 2021.



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    #Shakespeare #TheBard #BardofAvon #SUA #Stratford #StratforduponAvon #np #Macbeth #Soliloquy #Tragedies #Poetry #Plays #Playwrights #poetrycomm #prophecy #WilliamShakespeare #LadyMacbeth


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