Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
Letters to a Stranger
The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry.
If you'd like to support Breaking Form:
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Read Dylan Thomas's incredible villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" or listen to Thomas read it here. We reference a few readings of this poem by actors:
Here's Anthony Hopkins getting choked up reading it.
And here's Michael Sheen's rendition.
Listen to Thomas read "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London." You can read the text of the poem here.
Read Dylan Thomas's "The Girl's Story"
Watch a short (30 min) Dylan Thomas documentary here.
Read Dylan Thomas's poems "Once Below a Time" and "Where Once the Waters of Your Face"
Read Thomas James's poem "Dragging the Lake" and his poem "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"
Read another pair of Thomas James poems: "Reasons" and "Waking Up"
Check out this FABULOUS Lucie Brock-Broido's essay on Thomas James: "The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius"
The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry.
If you'd like to support Breaking Form:
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Read Dylan Thomas's incredible villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" or listen to Thomas read it here. We reference a few readings of this poem by actors:
Here's Anthony Hopkins getting choked up reading it.
And here's Michael Sheen's rendition.
Listen to Thomas read "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London." You can read the text of the poem here.
Read Dylan Thomas's "The Girl's Story"
Watch a short (30 min) Dylan Thomas documentary here.
Read Dylan Thomas's poems "Once Below a Time" and "Where Once the Waters of Your Face"
Read Thomas James's poem "Dragging the Lake" and his poem "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"
Read another pair of Thomas James poems: "Reasons" and "Waking Up"
Check out this FABULOUS Lucie Brock-Broido's essay on Thomas James: "The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius"