Category: Voice Over

Poems featured: Music, When Soft Voices Die – Percy Bysshe Shelley Requiem – Robert Louis Stevenson This episode brings together two quiet reflections on what remains after we go. Shelley’s Music, When Soft Voices Die is a brief and delicate meditation — a few lines that linger like perfume in a room just left. Then…

This Monday on A Voice Like This, two poems that speak quietly about what we leave behind. One lingers like a memory… the other accepts its end with calm resolve. Shelley and Stevenson. Two voices. One final breath. Listen Monday, wherever you get your podcasts.

🎙️ A Voice Like This – Episode 3: Stars and Shadows Poets featured: John Keats and W. B. Yeats In this episode, we hear from two poets separated by time — but connected by something quieter. Stillness, memory, longing. Keats reaches toward the stars with Bright Star, his voice full of yearning for something that…

Coming Monday on A Voice Like This, I’ve paired two poems that sit quietly in the space between love and time. One looks up — full of longing and stillness. The other looks back — with tenderness and something left unsaid. Keats and Yeats. Two voices, speaking across the years. Listen Monday, wherever you get…

Poems featured: A Dream Within a Dream – Edgar Allan Poe I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth In this episode, we move from shadow to sunlight — pairing two iconic poems that look at time, memory, and how the world shifts around us. We begin with Poe’s A Dream Within a Dream,…

In this episode, we move from shadow to sunlight — pairing two iconic poems that look at time, memory, and how the world shifts around us. We begin with Poe’s A Dream Within a Dream, a haunting piece about illusion and loss — and then return to earth with Wordsworth’s beloved I Wandered Lonely as…

Welcome to the first episode of A Voice Like This — a podcast where I read poetry aloud, not to explain it, but to let it breathe. In this opening episode, I begin with a pairing that moves from gentleness to something far more fierce: the quiet resilience of Emily Dickinson, followed by the fiery…

Coming on Monday 7th July, a brand new podcast ‘A Voice Like This’ Sometimes, the right words — spoken aloud — can land in a way the page alone never quite manages. I’m Phil Rowe, and this is A Voice Like This — a podcast for people who still believe that good poetry is meant…