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Sebastian Michael

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“He’s a trombonist. And that alone should tell me everything I need to know.”

Encounters
Whist

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November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Sebastian Michael

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With all the Sonnets done, here comes the Coda Edition of #Sonnetcast on A Lover's Complaint:

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A Lover's Complaint by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Following an established tradition at the time, William Shakespeare furnishes his collection of 154 Sonnets with a poetic Complaint that acts as a coda to the series. Where he departs from common prac...

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November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Sebastian Michael

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The collection of sonnets is now complete: Listen to "Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God, Lying Once Asleep" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived on Spotify for Creators

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Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God, Lying Once Asleep

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November 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM

Sebastian Michael

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“The prism of your childhood paints the world in colours that but slowly fade…”

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{Loss}

#boys #london #childhood #dream #EDENbyFREI

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October 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM

Sebastian Michael

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“…and there were all these saggy old men with drooping bits everywhere.”

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{Thoughts That Can’t Be Unthunk}

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October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Sebastian Michael

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“I am fairly much one with the sofa right now.”

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Entreatment [2]

#London #Soho #Auden #sofa #EDENbyFREI

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October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Sebastian Michael

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“…I personally tend to think of sex not much more than as a particularly emphatic way of saying hello.”

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Entreatment [1]

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October 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Sebastian Michael

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“…that's all just Shoreditch on a Sunday in June.”

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Indiscretion [2]

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September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM

Sebastian Michael

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“and down came a young man who looked not unlike how you'd imagine Harry Potter, aged 23, minus the scar.”

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Indiscretion [1]

#London #Shoreditch #latex #art #EDENbyFREI

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September 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

After establishing in the previous two sonnets that he is possessed of a 'fever' that makes him 'mad' and that distorts his vision, William Shakespeare uses Sonnet 149 to further describe the effect t...

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September 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 147: My Love Is as a Fever, Longing Still" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 147: My Love Is as a Fever, Longing Still by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

In Sonnet 147, William Shakespeare brings together two themes that have agitated him before: firstly the at the time fairly commonplace notion of love – and, more to the point, desire – as a disease t...

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September 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

#Shakespeare #poetry #sonnets #Sonnet146 #life #death #body #soul #mind #LiteraturePosts #podcast #SONNETCAST

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Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

With his solemn, near pious, Sonnet 146, William Shakespeare for the first and only time speaks directly to his soul and entreats it to look after itself; to stop expending its energy on the pursuit o...

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August 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived for a radically different perspective on this often dismissed poem.

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Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Sonnet 145 stands out in the collection for several reasons. Some factual, some conjectural, some somewhere in-between. Most obviously and beyond interpretation evident is the fact that it is the only...

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August 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

With his exceptionally explicit and startlingly revelatory Sonnet 144 William Shakespeare addresses head on the fact that his mistress and his lover are certainly friends, and that he suspects – rathe...

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August 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 143: Lo! As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 143: Lo! As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

With his uncharacteristically lighthearted Sonnet 143, William Shakespeare plants a picture in our minds of the poet as a crying toddler placed on the ground while his mother is running after a waywar...

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August 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Special Guest: Professor Phyllis Rackin — Shakespeare and Women" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

#Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #women #poetry #podcast #LiteraturePosts #history #language #English

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Special Guest: Professor Phyllis Rackin — Shakespeare and Women by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

In this special episode, Phyllis Rackin, Professor Emerita of English from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and former president of the Shakespeare Association of America talks to Sebast...

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July 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 140: Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 140: Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press

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July 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 139: O Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 139: O Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

With Sonnet 139, William Shakespeare finds himself quite comfortably in the domain of the classical Petrarchan sonnet, invoking the themes and poetic tropes that other sonneteers of the period, most n...

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July 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

With Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare takes a step back and reflects on how both he and his mistress in their relationship with each other are effectively living a lie which they both actively conspire ...

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June 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM

Sebastian Michael

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Listen to "Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool Love, What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes" by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived.

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Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool Love, What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes by SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

In Sonnet 137, William Shakespeare draws together two of the themes established by the 'Dark Lady Sonnets' thus far: his mistress's unconventional beauty and her sexual freedom. Following the near-obs...

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June 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM