Hello.
That's very kind of you to say you are influenced by Sleerickets, I will pass your kind words and your podcast onto Matthew and the other co-hosts.
I wouldn't worry too much about audio quality (though certainly improving it should not be discouraged) as you may know from the show, my audio quality is often underwhelming to say the least, and as Alice says to me, people won't care about your quality (unless its unintelligible) if you are saying interesting things. I will listen to your podcast and private message you if you like with any thoughts -- but just from looking at the titles I appreciate your diverse taste, from Herbert to Stevens (there's certainly a tradition there, but also a variety of voice, image-making and style). What I always advocate for is to recognize that "formal" (I find that term personally a little false, all good poetry is formal, free verse is as much a form as metrical poetry) to recognize that metrical poetry isn't just the conversational, or the manner of the seventeenth-century, its modernist and Victorian and Romantic, its omnipresent. I hope you embrace that variety--and from the episode titles at least, you seem to be doing that.
I'll be back once I've listened to you but I wish you well and very good luck and success for now with the podcast. Certainly there is an appetite for this type of thing, I think.
Excitedly,
Cameron
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