Loughborough academics discuss pets in new episode of poetry podcast
Dr Oliver Tearle, a lecturer in English at Loughborough, discusses poets and poems dealing with the theme of poets and their pets in ‘For secondly’, the newest instalment in the second series of ‘School of Poetry’.
Tearle, is joined by fellow English lecturer Dr Barbara Cooke and Dr Kerry Featherstone, a lecturer in Creative Writing as they look at Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno and Thomas Hardy’s A Popular Personage.
The podcast aims to entertain as well as educate and, in this episode, they discuss how pets can help with mental health, the film adaptation of CATS that is causing quite the stir and the bear Lord Byron kept as a pet during his time at Cambridge University.
Tearle, Cooke and Featherstone also enjoy reading poems from two Loughborough alumni, Nat Moores and Shruti Chauhan.
Moores is the recent winner of the Overton Poetry Prize and the academics read the final poem in her collection, entitled Single Girl Lies Hidden, which focuses on the #MeToo movement.
Chauhan’s poem ‘62p’ draws upon the poet’s time working at Beaumont Leys library, finding unusual in the mundane.
Dr Barbara Cooke’s research focuses on twentieth-century autobiography and life writing. She is also the co-executive editor of the complete works of Evelyn Waugh.
Dr Kerry Featherstone specialises in contemporary travel writing, with a particular focus on Afghanistan.
Listen to the episode below or download from the iTunes store here. Previous episodes from the series can also be found online.
Notes for editors
Press release reference number: 19/122
Loughborough University is equipped with a live in-house broadcast unit via the Globelynx network. To arrange an interview with one of our experts please contact the press office on 01509 223491. Bookings can be made online via www.globelynx.com
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the 2019 QS World University Rankings, University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2019 and top in the country for its student experience in the 2018 THE Student Experience Survey.
Loughborough is in the top 10 of every national league table, being ranked 4th in the Guardian University League Table 2020, 5th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 and 8th in The UK Complete University Guide 2020.
Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
The Loughborough University London campus is based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities. It is home to influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators who provide students with the highest quality of teaching and the very latest in modern thinking.
Loughborough staff, students and alumni make a real difference. They challenge convention, think creatively and find solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today and in the future.
Dr Oliver Tearle, a lecturer in English at Loughborough, discusses poets and poems dealing with the theme of poets and their pets in ‘For secondly’, the newest instalment in the second series of ‘School of Poetry’.
Tearle, is joined by fellow English lecturer Dr Barbara Cooke and Dr Kerry Featherstone, a lecturer in Creative Writing as they look at Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno and Thomas Hardy’s A Popular Personage.
The podcast aims to entertain as well as educate and, in this episode, they discuss how pets can help with mental health, the film adaptation of CATS that is causing quite the stir and the bear Lord Byron kept as a pet during his time at Cambridge University.
Tearle, Cooke and Featherstone also enjoy reading poems from two Loughborough alumni, Nat Moores and Shruti Chauhan.
Moores is the recent winner of the Overton Poetry Prize and the academics read the final poem in her collection, entitled Single Girl Lies Hidden, which focuses on the #MeToo movement.
Chauhan’s poem ‘62p’ draws upon the poet’s time working at Beaumont Leys library, finding unusual in the mundane.
Dr Barbara Cooke’s research focuses on twentieth-century autobiography and life writing. She is also the co-executive editor of the complete works of Evelyn Waugh.
Dr Kerry Featherstone specialises in contemporary travel writing, with a particular focus on Afghanistan.
Listen to the episode below or download from the iTunes store here. Previous episodes from the series can also be found online.
Notes for editors
Press release reference number: 19/122
Loughborough University is equipped with a live in-house broadcast unit via the Globelynx network. To arrange an interview with one of our experts please contact the press office on 01509 223491. Bookings can be made online via www.globelynx.com
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the 2019 QS World University Rankings, University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2019 and top in the country for its student experience in the 2018 THE Student Experience Survey.
Loughborough is in the top 10 of every national league table, being ranked 4th in the Guardian University League Table 2020, 5th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 and 8th in The UK Complete University Guide 2020.
Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
The Loughborough University London campus is based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities. It is home to influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators who provide students with the highest quality of teaching and the very latest in modern thinking.
Loughborough staff, students and alumni make a real difference. They challenge convention, think creatively and find solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today and in the future.
