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Pelé's Poetry Podcast

Pelé's Poetry Podcast

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

    Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 7 – The A E Housman Shropshire Lad one
    Apr 30 2026

    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 […]

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

    Pele’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 6 – The Wuthering Heights one
    Feb 23 2026

    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 […]

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    30 mins
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