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Podcast: WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives
Episode: World Ocean Radio 1/1/25: At the Fishhouses
Description: Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week on World Ocean Radio we share our yearly reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem At the Fishhouses. In its richly-detailed mastery, it distills Bishop’s seaside meditations, evokes the clarity of meaning contained in personal encounters at the shore and with the ocean, and holds the reader and the listener in the space that lies between land and sea, a site of transience, mystery, and the sublime. At the Fishhouses is a clear favorite for the New Year. We hope it is for you, too, whether you are revisiting a...