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John Masefield
Season 6 · Episode 8

John Masefield

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

March 29, 202339m 28s

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Show Notes

This week, we look at a John Masefield poem from 1911, in which a naked drunk runs through a town at midnight, threatening firefighters with their own hose-nozzles. The poems referenced are ‘Sea-Fever’, ‘The Everlasting Mercy’, ‘Dauber’ and ‘Partridges’.

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