Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Frank loves the clay, machinery and scary religion in the poetry of Jack Clemo. The poems ... more

The poet, Greta Stoddart, instructs Frank on the deeper meanings of three tulips in a milk... more

Frank joins a secret society with Pebbles Flintstone and the poet, Scott McKendry. The poe... more

Frank finds the beauty in Amy Clampitt's poetry and written-off cars. The poem referenced ... more

The poet, Rebecca Goss, shows Frank life in a rearview mirror. The poems referenced are ‘P... more

Frank shares a pulpit with RS Thomas. The poems referenced are ‘Border Blues’, ‘Service’ a... more

Frank is very moved by what the poet, Mona Van Duyn, can do with an eraser. The poem refer... more

Frank and the poet, Craig Raine, explore a disused botanical garden. The poems referenced ... more

Frank and the poet, Wislawa Szymborska, discover how many people actually like poetry. The... more

Frank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenc... more

A poem by Ruth Padel results in Frank staring, for 15 minutes, at an embroidery of an elep... more

Frank is more than slightly besotted with ‘Lunch Poems’ by Frank O'Hara. The poems referen... more

Frank gets very excited about the Rebecca Hawkes collection, ‘Meat Lovers’. The poems refe... more

Frank spends the night in Dylan Thomas' bedroom. The poems referenced are ‘And Death Shall... more

Frank loves a hard-drinking, hard-smoking Polytechnic lecturer like Martin Bell, especiall... more

Jo Shapcott sends Frank, an enthusiastic tree-hugger, into a sap-soaked frenzy. The collec... more

Frank stands in awe as Sasha Dugdale sends a frighteningly honest Valentine’s message. The... more

Frank is alarmed by AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit... more

The Irish poet, Jessica Traynor, explores one of Frank’s favourite subjects – ageing perfo... more

American poet, Billy Collins, makes Frank question the whole Poetry Podcast experience. Th... more

Frank trembles at the fragmented beauty of Sappho, the superstar poet of Ancient Greece. T... more

Frank explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Nuff said. Learn more ab... more

Series 9 of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast begins on 10th January. See you there! Learn mo... more

Is it a man? Is it a moth? Frank has a strange night out with Elizabeth Bishop. The poem r... more

Frank indulges his obsession with the Anglo Saxons as he reads Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hym... more