In this episode we read satirical poems by Hillary Bellock, mocking the trend of over the top violent lessons in 19th century children's books.
Henry King; Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies.
Matilda; Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death.
Lord Lundy; Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career.
George;Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions.
You can read these and more poems here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27424/27424-h/27424-h.htm
Music: Run Amok by Kevin MacLeod
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In this episode we read two collections of poetry. The first, by Vasiliki Petroudi, examines folklore and literature through a new lens. The second, by Birgit Itse, takes life observations and spins them into funny ditties!
In this episode we read a beautifully tragic tale of pain and endurance by Shannon Frost Greenstein.
Shannonis the author of “Pray for Us Sinners,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a chapbook from Bullsh*t Lit.
Follow Shannon at shannonfrostgreenstein.com or on Twitter at @ShannonFrostGre. Insta: @zarathustra_speaks
We're ringing in the New Year with a celebration of all of our goofs and gaffs! We hope that you enjoy looking back at our silliest moments with us!
Thank you so much to the authors and actors who worked with us, to the whole Yorick Team and, of course, our lovely listeners!
We look forward to bringing you more creative chaos in 2024!
In our festive episode we read a story by Chief Jester Rosie Beech.
We follow Eunice into the forest to play a strange game with stranger team mates. You have to keep your wits about you when you encounter living folklore!
This piece was originally published in Crab Apple Literary Magazine.
In this episode we read three wonderful stories!
The Academy of Avian Excellence by Elynor Kamil (Content warning: animal cruelty)
Homecoming by Fenja Hill
Elsa’s Pig by Zusana Storrier
Includes music by Kevin Macleod (Evening Melodrama)
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In this episode we speak to author Dr Nancy Glass. She has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, in The Journal of Narrative Visions, and won the 2022 Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest in General Nonfiction. She retired from clinical practice after forty years as Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in 2022.
Content warning: Infant death
In this episode we read a profound and thoughtful piece by Nancy L. Glass. It follows a doctors experience of providing hospice care and all the little moments that are so important for both the family and the doctor.
In this episode we hear a darkly comic story by Philip Whiteland about everything that could possibly go wrong at a funeral home!
In this episode we are reading two wonderful collections of poems. The first set are by Brandon Shane and the second by RG Evans. They take us through war torn landscapes, intimately sad and funny moments and ask us to think about what makes us who we are.
Happy Halloween everyone!
In honour of the holiday the Yorick team are here to share some of their own ghost stories. We discuss phantom bakers that refuse to end their shift, a parcel from the ghostal service and the ghosts from fiction that made us the writers we are today!
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