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Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Frank Skinner's poetry podcast. I never talk to you that much about my general style of poetry reading.

And what I mean is one of my great pleasures, I mean my deep, deep pleasures in life,

is to grab hold of a fat poetry anthology

with lots of different poets, different poems, and just wade, just wallow, just marinate in it.

It's a bit like when MTV was first invented, RIP, when MTV was first invented, I would think,

oh, I'll just watch one more video. And, oh, okay, I'll watch this one. Oh, I like this one. And pretty soon it was

4 a.m. That's how I am with the poetry anthology nowadays.

Just one more page, one more poem.

And so I just wanted to celebrate anthologies in general today.

But specifically, I just received a century of poetry in the New Yorker 1925 to 2025 edited by Kevin Young

the poet the New Yorker you must know is an American magazine and it regularly prints poetry and it's been doing it for a hundred years.

And this big, fat, beautiful book is absolutely loaded with it.

So I turned to page 714.

It's done in sections.

But one of the things that it's not always great in an

anthology is if it's just chronological, because chronology can have a sort of wearing

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