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Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Wislawa Szymborska

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Avalon

Arts

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Frank and the poet, Wislawa Szymborska, discover how many people actually like poetry. The poems referenced are ‘Plato, or Why’ and ‘Some Like Poetry’ by Wislawa Szymborska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0

Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's poetry podcast.

1:02.9

Some of my regular listeners may recall that on a previous episode, I talked about a Polish poet called Tadeus de Brofsky.

1:15.8

And I talked then about translation and the problems of reading poetry in translation.

1:23.4

Today I'd like to look at the work of another Polish poet called Vyashava Zimburska

1:32.1

and she was born in 1923 and died in 2012 at the age of 88.

1:39.8

She's something of a legend in Polish poetry, I think it's fair to say. And she actually won

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