Episode 234 - Novels in Verse

It's episode 234 and time for us to talk about Novels in Verse! We discuss rhyme, meter, interiority, whether any of us understand poetry and more!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!)

• Listen to Episode 233 - Battle of the Books 2026

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears
• Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• The Call-out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick
• Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
• Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated by Eliot Weinberger
• We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
• Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen
• Beowulf
• Project Hail Mary (film)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Aniara (film)
• Aniara: A Revue of Man in Time and Space by Harry Martinson
  • There are two different English translations!

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