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A Poetic Picnic
Poetry read aloud — in kitchens, in parks, in early mornings.
with Alice Saga
A quiet podcast about the poems that hold us together. Each episode is a reading — sometimes with music, sometimes with morning birds, always with love.
The poets gathered here are the ones Alice returns to: Mary Oliver above all, and Louise Glück, Emily Dickinson, Derek Walcott, Karin Boye, John O'Donohue, William Blake, Joy Harjo. Alongside them, her own memoirs and reflections — small, true things.
The podcast ran from August 2021 to early 2024. This is its archive.
61 episodes · 2021–2024
All Episodes
readingmemoircollabreflection
2024
The Angel— William Blake
readingFebruary 27, 2024
Untitled
readingFebruary 26, 2024
Hymn to Beauty— Charles Baudelaire
readingJanuary 20, 2024
May Sarton— May Sarton
readingJanuary 13, 2024
Emily Dickinson & Derek Walcott— Dickinson & Walcott
readingJanuary 7, 2024
2023
Long Black Branches— Mary Oliver
readingDecember 30, 2023
A Calling of Angelic Joy
reflectionSeptember 23, 2023
Ja Visst Gör Det Ont— Karin BoyeIn Swedish
readingSeptember 15, 2023
You Can't Have It All— Barbara Ras
readingSeptember 7, 2023
Till en Sfinx— Karin BoyeIn Swedish
readingAugust 3, 2023
For Suffering— John O'Donohue
readingJanuary 14, 2023
Welcome to 2023
reflection
2022
The Summer Day— Mary Oliver
readingJuly 24, 2022
Stand Firm in That Which You Are
reflectionMay 24, 2022
Daisies— Kathleen Jamie
readingFebruary 17, 2022
Untitled
readingFebruary 17, 2022
Alice and JasonWith Jason
collabFebruary 10, 2022
A Rose with Timothy Galley— Timothy Galley
collabFebruary 10, 2022
Are You There God
reflectionFebruary 6, 2022
Messenger— Mary Oliver
readingJanuary 12, 2022
2021
A Tiny Memoir of 2021
memoirDecember 30, 2021
The Eagle Poem— Joy Harjo
readingDecember 19, 2021
I Dwell in Possibility— Emily Dickinson
readingNovember 11, 2021
I Died for Beauty— Emily Dickinson
readingOctober 16, 2021
Fringed Gentian— William Cullen Bryant
readingOctober 7, 2021
Love After Love— Derek Walcott
readingSeptember 23, 2021
When Death Comes— Mary Oliver
readingSeptember 15, 2021
September 11, 2001 — A Tiny Memoir
memoirSeptember 11, 2021
O Me! O Life!— Walt Whitman
readingSeptember 8, 2021
Mornings with VioletteA love letter to Epping
memoirSeptember 3, 2021
Why I Wake Early— Mary Oliver
readingAugust 26, 2021
Episode 1The beginning
reflectionAugust 20, 2021
Archive — undated
Wild Geese— Mary Oliver
reading
The Journey— Mary Oliver
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The Summer Day— Mary Oliver
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When Death Comes— Mary Oliver
reading
A Dream of Trees— Mary Oliver
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A God-Tale— Mary Oliver
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Just to Be Alive— Mary Oliver
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Swan— Mary Oliver
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The Other Kingdoms— Mary Oliver
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The Wild Iris— Louise Glück
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The Red Poppy— Louise Glück
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Witchgrass— Louise Glück
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Bloom— Emily Dickinson
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Eternity— William Blake
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Fairy Song— John Keats
reading
A Birthday— Christina Rossetti
reading
Beauty— Charles Baudelaire
reading
A Poem— Ayisha Siddiqa
reading
For a New Beginning— John O'Donohue
reading
Death Is Nothing at All— Henry Scott Holland
reading
De Oföddas Kör / Wir Ungeborenen— Selma Lagerlöf / Rainer Maria RilkeSwedish & German
reading
Gabriellas Sång & To Begin with the Sweet Grass
reading
How to Open Your Heart— Jeff Foster
reading
If I Had My Life to Live Over— Nadine Stair
reading
The Trees
reading
Divine Awakening
reflection
The Vulnerability of Vanity
reflection
The Work Happening in the Background
reflection
Embracing a Sober Life — An Update
reflection
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver