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Pelé's Poetry Podcast

Pelé's Poetry Podcast

By: Pele Cox & Rich Uridge
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Thought-provoking and wide-ranging conversations on poetry with the poet Pelé Cox and journalist Rich Uridge. Erudition for your ears. Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Literary History & Criticism
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  • Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 10 – World Cup football poems

    Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 10 – World Cup football poems
    Jun 23 2026

    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. […]

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

    Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 9 – Can Poetry Make You Happy?
    Jun 13 2026

    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 […]

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    33 mins
  • Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 8 – Forbidden Love

    Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 8 – Forbidden Love
    May 14 2026

    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 […]

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    27 mins
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