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Poetry and the Turning World: Food

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Jul 5, 202683:29Society & Culture

The most popular modern food poem is probably William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’, in which the speaker confesses to eating the plums his wife was saving for breakfast. Food has often been a means for poetry...

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Poetry and the Turning World: Food is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. The most popular modern food poem is probably William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’, in which the speaker confesses to eating the plu...

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Published Jul 5, 2026, 83:29 long, audio available.

Poetry and the Turning World: Food

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