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!

Links, Articles, and Things

• Metre (poetry)
• Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry
• Concrete poetry
• Iambic pentameter
• We should be excited that spoken word is reinventing literature
• Selena
• Tejano music
• Epistolary novel
• List of countries by tertiary education attainment
• Stacey Kade (S. A. Barnes)
• Tommy Pico

17 Novels in Verse by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• The Fragments That Remain by MacKenzie Angeconeb
• Eureka by Victoria Chang
• The Last One by Fatima Daas, translated by Lara Vergnaud
• The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
• Syncopation by Whitney French
• King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin
• Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
• Dreaming of You by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• Here Comes the Dogs by Omar Musa
• The Perfect Nine: the Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
• Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with artwork by Jason Griffin
• Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
• Death's Country by R. M. Romero
• Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

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Join us again on  Tuesday, August 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Celebrity Memoirs as suggested by Kjs4658

Then on August 18th, we'll be giving our summer media update.