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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is Episode 9 of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "Because" by James McAuley.
You can read today’s poem here
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the eighth episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's episode is a different format, because the typical format - reading a poem twice straight through, and then offering some thoughts - couldn't work for a 500-line poem like "Michael", William Wordsworth's great pastoral.
Because of that, this is a much longer episode, so whether you enjoy it in full, or you dip in multiple times, I do hope you enjoy it.
And as always, if you do, please do tell one person about Poems for the Speed of Life.
You can read today’s poem here
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For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the seventh episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "Weakness" by Alden Nowlan.
You can read today’s poem here
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For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the sixth episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "On my First Son" by Ben Jonson.
You can read today’s poem here
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For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the fourth episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee.
You can read today’s poem here
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For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the fourth episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "My Father's Hats" by Mark Irwin
You can read today’s poem here
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For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
***
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Welcome to this episode of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner, poetry advocate and poet.
This is the third episode of this series of the show on the theme of "Fatherhood”.
Today's poem is "Father's Song" by Gregory Orr.
You can read today’s poem here
***
For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
***
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This is the second episode of this series on Fatherhood.
Today's poem is a song lyric: "The Living Years" by Mike Rutherford, of Mike and the Mechanics.
For full show notes please visit the podcast page on Substack.
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All the poems in this series will be about fathers or by fathers.
They will have something vital to show us about the experience, either of fatherhood itself, or of being a son or daughter of a father.
One of the poems was written in 1603, another in 1800, but most will be from the last 50 years or so. There will be a poem by a star of social media, there will be a poem that is actually a song lyric, and I also — and this is a first for me — will be including one of my own poems in this series, a poem I wrote last year about and for my daughter.
This series will be for men who would like to be able to emulate their own fathers, and also for men who want to become the father they never had.
But it won’t just be for men. Around 60% of the listeners to this podcast over the past 18 months have been women, and all the episodes in this series will be for women too. Because men need women and women need men. We need each other to sustain life, and we need each other to enjoy to the full the life we sustain. At our best, we each bring something different and essential.
So there can be doubt that there are lots of women out there who would like their men — their husbands or partners or the men they would like to meet, the men who are the fathers of their children now or might be in the future — to fully embody the role of father, in all its complexities and challenges and glories.
We all need fathers and father figures in our lives, and maybe now more than ever, with so much immaturity, short-term thinking and lack of leadership in the world. This series of poems will try to bring some of that inspiration and wisdom straight to you.
So thank you for being here. Please enjoy this series of Poems for the Speed of Life, starting on Saturday, June 8th, and if you do, please share one episode with someone who might benefit from hearing it.
See you then.
***
For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
***
If you’re on social media, you can follow on Instagram here and Facebook here.
You can subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
To leave the show a review:
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Welcome to another series of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner helping organisations build digital empires, poetry advocate, poet and podcaster.
This is the first episode of this series on Fatherhood.
Today's poem is "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden.
For full show notes please visit the podcast page on Substack.
All the poems in this series will be about fathers or by fathers.
They will have something vital to show us about the experience, either of fatherhood itself, or of being a son or daughter of a father.
One of the poems was written in 1603, another in 1800, but most will be from the last 50 years or so. There will be a poem by a star of social media, there will be a poem that is actually a song lyric, and I also — and this is a first for me — will be including one of my own poems in this series, a poem I wrote last year about and for my daughter.
This series will be for men who would like to be able to emulate their own fathers, and also for men who want to become the father they never had.
But it won’t just be for men. Around 60% of the listeners to this podcast over the past 18 months have been women, and all the episodes in this series will be for women too. Because men need women and women need men. We need each other to sustain life, and we need each other to enjoy to the full the life we sustain. At our best, we each bring something different and essential.
So there can be doubt that there are lots of women out there who would like their men — their husbands or partners or the men they would like to meet, the men who are the fathers of their children now or might be in the future — to fully embody the role of father, in all its complexities and challenges and glories.
We all need fathers and father figures in our lives, and maybe now more than ever, with so much immaturity, short-term thinking and lack of leadership in the world. This series of poems will try to bring some of that inspiration and wisdom straight to you.
So thank you for being here. Please enjoy this series of Poems for the Speed of Life, starting on Saturday, June 8th, and if you do, please share one episode with someone who might benefit from hearing it.
See you then.
***
For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
***
If you’re on social media, you can follow on Instagram here and Facebook here.
You can subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
To leave the show a review:
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Welcome to another series of Poems for the Speed of Life with Shane Breslin, writer, business owner helping organisations build digital empires, poetry advocate, poet and podcaster.
The next series of Poems for the Speed of Life will begin on Saturday, June 8th, 2024.
The theme for the new series is Fatherhood.
Shane is a father of two school-age children and he sees it as the biggest responsibility in his life and the thing he grapples with as much as anything. Fatherhood never stays the same. It’s continually evolving. You’ve just learned how to be a good father to your 10-year-old boy and suddenly he’s 12 and starting puberty and you’re starting to learn all over again.
All the poems in this series will be about fathers or by fathers.
They will have something vital to show us about the experience, either of fatherhood itself, or of being a son or daughter of a father.
One of the poems was written in 1603, another in 1800, but most will be from the last 50 years or so. There will be a poem by a star of social media, there will be a poem that is actually a song lyric, and I also — and this is a first for me — will be including one of my own poems in this series, a poem I wrote last year about and for my daughter.
This series will be for men who would like to be able to emulate their own fathers, and also for men who want to become the father they never had.
But it won’t just be for men. Around 60% of the listeners to this podcast over the past 18 months have been women, and all the episodes in this series will be for women too. Because men need women and women need men. We need each other to sustain life, and we need each other to enjoy to the full the life we sustain. At our best, we each bring something different and essential.
So there can be doubt that there are lots of women out there who would like their men — their husbands or partners or the men they would like to meet, the men who are the fathers of their children now or might be in the future — to fully embody the role of father, in all its complexities and challenges and glories.
We all need fathers and father figures in our lives, and maybe now more than ever, with so much immaturity, short-term thinking and lack of leadership in the world. This series of poems will try to bring some of that inspiration and wisdom straight to you.
So thank you for being here. Please enjoy this series of Poems for the Speed of Life, starting on Saturday, June 8th, and if you do, please share one episode with someone who might benefit from hearing it.
See you then.
***
For a detailed outline of the mission and purpose behind this podcast, please check out Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", and Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", in your podcast player.
***
If you’re on social media, you can follow on Instagram here and Facebook here.
You can subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
To leave the show a review:
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Today’s poem is “Begin” by Brendan Kennelly, the much-loved Irish poet who died in 2021 at the age of 85.
It is a poem about the beauty in the awareness of the ordinary precious world around us, and also about the foreverness, the sense of the eternal that comes through all endings and finality and loss.
For full show notes for this episode, visit the episode page on Substack.
Thank you for joining me for this series.
Join me over on Substack to keep in touch with the show as we move forward.
You can read "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly here
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Today's poem is "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove, the former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner.
You can read the full show notes and join the community over on Substack here.
You can read the poem here.
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Today's episode brings you three of the Cantos from "In Memoriam AHH" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written over 16 years and published in 1850.
You can read the full show notes and join the community over on Substack here.
The full text of the poem is available here.
You can find these three Cantos by scrolling down the page to the Roman numerals XXII (22), V (5) and VII (7).
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Today’s poem is "The birthday of the world" by Marge Piercy, an American writer, poet and activist who has published more than 20 collections of poetry spanning more than 50 years.
This is Episode 9 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
You can read today's poem here
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Today’s poem is "The Fisherman", by WB Yeats, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who died in 1939.
This is Episode 8 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
You can read today's poem here
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Today’s poem is "This is not the end" by Tanner Olson, an American poet based in Tennessee.
This is Episode 7 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
You can read today's poem here
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Today’s poem is "Dawn at St Patrick's" by Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who died in 2020 at the age of 78.
This is Episode 6 of this series called "Beginnings", which started with "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith in Episode 201.
You can read the poem here
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This is the fifth episode of this series of "Beginnings" from Poems for the Speed of Life.
Today's poem is "Beginning" by Lia Purpura.
Lia Purpura is an American poet, writer and educator who has published four collections of poems, King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, The Brighter the Veil and the collection from which today's poem is taken It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful.
You can read the poem here
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Shane Breslin, Irish creative entrepreneur and the founder of Poems for the Speed of Life, is accepting bookings to speak at events around the world starting in summer 2024.
To express an interest in bringing Shane to speak at your event, please fill out your details here.
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Finally, if this is your first time here, we encourage you to go back to listen two earlier episodes for more context on this project.
In Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", you will hear of the new direction for this podcast as we moved into 2024.
One of the key pieces of that is a new series-based approach, and this series, "Beginnings", starting in February 2024, is the first of those.
And in Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", you will hear more about the mission of this podcast.
***
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This is an episode of a special series of Poems for the Speed of Life titled "Beginnings".
Today's poem is "For a New Beginning" by John O'Donohue.
John O’Donohue was a great Irish spiritual leader, teacher, theologian and philosopher who continues to find new audiences all over the world more than 15 years after his passing at just 54 years of age.
Three earlier John O’Donohue poems have featured on this podcast. You can find "Beannacht" in Episode 17, "On the Death of the Beloved" in Episode 95 and "A Christmas Blessing" in Episode 199.
You can find those episodes by searching the archives of this show in your podcast player.
You can read the poem here
***Join the Community!
If you join the community you will be supporting this podcast and you will also be able to take part in the discussion on every episode.
Join us on Substack here
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Organizing an event?
Shane Breslin, Irish creative entrepreneur and the founder of Poems for the Speed of Life, is accepting bookings to speak at events around the world starting in summer 2024.
To express an interest in bringing Shane to speak at your event, please fill out your details here.
***
Finally, if this is your first time here, we encourage you to go back to listen two earlier episodes for more context on this project.
In Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", you will hear of the new direction for this podcast as we moved into 2024.
One of the key pieces of that is a new series-based approach, and this series, "Beginnings", starting in February 2024, is the first of those.
And in Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", you will hear more about the mission of this podcast.
***
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This is the third episode in this series, "Beginnings", on Poems for the Speed of Life.
Today's poem is "Center of the Universe" by Hannah Emerson.
Hannah Emerson is a nonspeaking autistic poet from Lafayette, New York whose work has been featured in The Paris Review, Poetry magazine, and the Poetry Society of America.
Hannah Emerson writes a regular Substack called "The Kissing Nothing We Become", which has the subtitle "I'm kissing you today helping you kiss your day yes yes"
Read Hannah Emerson on Substack here
And read the poem "Center of the Universe" on The Marginalian here
***Join the Community!
If you join the community you will be supporting this podcast and you will also be able to take part in the discussion on every episode.
Join us on Substack here
***
Organizing an event?
Shane Breslin, Irish creative entrepreneur and the founder of Poems for the Speed of Life, is accepting bookings to speak at events around the world starting in summer 2024.
To express an interest in bringing Shane to speak at your event, please fill out your details here.
***
Finally, if this is your first time here, we encourage you to go back to listen two earlier episodes for more context on this project.
In Episode 200, "A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life", you will hear of the new direction for this podcast as we moved into 2024.
One of the key pieces of that is a new series-based approach, and this series, "Beginnings", starting in February 2024, is the first of those.
And in Episode 100, "Why Poems for the Speed of Life?", you will hear more about the mission of this podcast.
***
Subscribe to or follow the show for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
To leave the show a review:
On Spotify. Open the Spotify app (iOS or Android), find the show and tap to rate five-stars. On Apple. Open your Apple Podcasts app, find the show and leave a rating and review. On Podchaser. Open the Podchaser website, find the show and tap to rate five-stars. - Visa fler
