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Hosted by Elijah Perseus Blumov · arts · EN-US
Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.
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Signup to Generate a PitchVersecraft is hosted by Elijah Perseus Blumov. The show has published 129 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include ""Epistemology of Poetry" by Robert Conquest" (13 September 2026, 18 minutes), ""The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss" (1 September 2026, 19 minutes), and ""Identity" by Elizabeth Jennings" (1 August 2026, 19 minutes).
Versecraft publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 129 episodes.
Booking probability for Versecraft is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Versecraft requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Versecraft's contact route on record: verified email.
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Elijah Perseus Blumov hosts Versecraft, an arts podcast with 129 episodes published.
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Episode #10
Read this essay and poem on Substack! Topics discussed include: -Poets as actual legislators -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -"The Great Terror" by Robert Conquest -The Movement redux -"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel...
Episode #9
Read this essay on Substack! Order my new chapbook here! Topics discussed in this episode include: -Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians -The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion -The musical caesura...
Episode #7
Mea culpa: Sorry for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures. Read this essay on Substack! -Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy...
Episode #6
Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack! Poems discussed: "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "In the Desert" by Herman Melville ( my Melville essay ) "Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith "Cold-Blooded...
Episode #5
Read this essay at The Sonneteer! Sonnet types discussed: The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC...
Episode #4
-Read this essay on Substack! -What is meter? -10 Reasons to write in meter -Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic) -Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach...
Episode #3
Read this essay on Substack! Topics discussed: -Disco Demolition Night -Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" -See Matthew's great episode on the above -Alice's essay, "On Fear" -My essay, "The Iron Lyre" -The...
Episode #2
-Read the poems on my Substack! -If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it -Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom -Al Ma’arri -Afzaladdin -Moses Ibn Ezra -Sehnsucht -Ibn Iyad -Manjik -Dick Davis...
Episode #1
Read this essay (and view the poems) on Substack! Topics discussed include: The Monumentalist Manifesto The Iron Lyre Bright Soft Things (Crashaw Essay) The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse trans. Christopher...
Episode #10
Read this episode on Substack! Text of the poem here. Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine! Topics discussed include: -Some po-biz kvetching -Morri Creech! -The telos...
Episode #9
Read this episode on Substack and subscribe! Text of poem Topics discussed include: -Plato's "Ion" -The Muses and Schizophrenia -Poets must be weirdos -The normies are the willing slaves of the mad -Lewis's trilemma...
Episode #8
Read this episode (and the poem) on Substack! Topics discussed include: -Going to Oaxaca! -"Poetry and Music" and "Rhyme's Reason" by John Hollander - My Nemerov episode - My Donaghy episode -Jacques Lacan and the...
Episode #7
Read this essay on Substack! Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo." Topics mentioned: -Poetry careerism in the 21st century - "The Iron Lyre" -The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet - Heaney's bog...
Episode #6
Read this essay and support the show on Substack! Topics discussed in this episode include: R.S. Thomas's poems: -Mediations -Kneeling -Via Negativa -The Absence -Revision - Ernest Hilbert -Alexander Fayne's essay on...
Episode #5
Read this episode in essay form here! Topics discussed in this episode include: -The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis , Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer - My Interview with Dick Davis -The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers...
Episode #4
Read the poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include: -Transcending the smallness of one's time - The Flaming Terrapin -The Voorslag Affair -Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face...
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Read the episode on Substack here Poems discussed in this episode: "Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee" by Emily Bronte "Cargoes" by John Masefield "From Stone to Steel" by E.J. Pratt "The Hill" by Rupert Brooke "When the...
Versecraft
-Read the poem... by pre-ordering Forester’s new collection here! - Or here, on Substack! -The Versecraft Substack -My annus mirabilis -Forester McClatchey! -Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -Renovating the sonnet-house...
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Text of the poem here. Read the transcript of this episode here! Topics discussed in this episode include: -My new website! -My Substack -The meaning and history of New Formalism -“Can Poetry Matter?” by Dana Gioia -The...
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Topics discussed in this episode: -Read this show on substack! - My new website!! - My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses -My new post at Literary Matters - My French translation episode on Heredia - My...
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