Close Talking

Connor and Jack close out National Poetry Month 2021 with a series of episodes exploring the history and enduring popularity of one of poetry's iconic forms: the sonnet. In episode five they travel forward hundreds of years and explore sonnets that go beyond the bounds of love to describe war, internment, and much more. Poems featured include "The Road to Corbie" by American war poet John Allan Wyath and "Barracks Home" by Toyo Suyemoto. The Road to Corbie By: John Allan Wyath Our staff car flies and trails a long-spun haze over the looping road and the surge and fall of the heaving plains ~~ quick dusty tree trunks throw their flickering bars of shadow in our eyes. A wood ~~ men leading horses out to graze ~~ a misty bridge, and past the lumbering crawl of crowded lorries ~~ low hills all aglow with tufts of trees against the evening skies and long blond hill slopes catching level rays along their quilted flanks ~~ and under all, the deep earth breathing like a thing asleep. And there, Corbie ~~ her brittl