Category: Voice Over
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A Voice Like This Rhythm and Rhyme
Not every poem has to be serious. Sometimes, it’s enough for the words to rattle, bounce, and carry us along for the ride. In this episode of A Voice Like This, I start with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Windy Nights — a short, stormy gallop through the dark. Then we turn to Edward Lear’s The Jumblies,…
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A Voice Like This The Shape Of Love
Podcast: A Voice Like This Hosted by Phil Rowe In this episode, Phil explores two very different – but equally powerful – expressions of love in poetry. From Shakespeare’s immortalised summer’s day to Carol Ann Duffy’s brutally honest onion, we discover how love can be idealised, subverted, celebrated… and sliced open. These poems remind us…
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A Voice Like This Coming Up – The Shape Of Love
Two poems, two very different takes on what love looks and feels like. From Shakespeare’s immortal “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” to Carol Ann Duffy’s onion-wrapped metaphor in Valentine, this episode unwraps the poetic layers of romance, tenderness, and truth. Whether you’re a lover, a cynic, or somewhere in between, this one’s…
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A Voice Like This Where We Go When We Go
In this episode, Phil Rowe explores two quiet yet profound reflections on death — and what it means to those left behind. We begin with Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson, a poem that invites us to consider death not as something to fear, but as a calm and curious companion.…
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A Voice Like This What We Leave Behind
In this episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe reads three powerful reflections on transience, legacy, and loss. Together, they explore the question: What truly endures when all else fades? “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Whether it’s a season,…
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A Voice Like This Coming Up – What We Leave Behind
Sometimes, it’s not the moment itself—but what follows—that lingers the longest. In the next episode of A Voice Like This, we reflect on change, memory, and the quiet traces we leave in the world around us. Three short but stirring poems guide us through the ache of farewell, the transience of pride, and the defiance…
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A Voice Like This The House You Carry
Episode 9 – The House You Carry Two poems exploring the quiet refuge we carry within. Featuring: Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare – a listener request The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats A reminder that love, stillness, and self-worth can be found not in far-off places, but deep within us. New episodes every…
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A Voice Like This The Weight and the Way
In this episode, Phil Rowe brings together two powerful poems that speak to the burden and beauty of being human. One poem is beloved. The other, more quietly known. One, fierce with instruction. The other, still with truth. Together, they offer a reflection on how we carry ourselves through the world — and what we…
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A Voice Like This Names in the Margins
In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others. First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of. Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft…
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A Voice Like This Coming Up – Names In The Margins
In this quietly resonant episode of A Voice Like This, Phil Rowe brings together two poems that speak to the art of paying attention — to ourselves, and to others. First, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love offers a tender invitation to reconnect with the self we’ve lost sight of. Then, Dylan Thomas’s In My Craft…
