Music as poetry, with poet Tom Weber

Ahead of World Poetry Day on March 21, Sarah talks to award-winning poet (and regular RTL Today contributor) Tom Weber about music as poetry, songwriters we consider to be poets, and songs that are actually poems set to music. Featuring a passionate defense of Carla Bruni's album 'No Promises', cringey tales of our teenage years, and mutual fangirling over Sylvia Plath.

Songs as poems:
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Could You Be Loved
Grand Corps Malade – L'heure des poètes
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Caro Emerald – I Know that He's Mine

Songwriters who are poets:
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Stromae - Tous les mêmes
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Gregory Porter - Consequence of Love
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company

Songs that inspire(d) us:
Julie Robert (Yllogique) & Camille Giraudeau (Araignée du Soir) - Hey Judy
Counting Crows - Round Here

Actual poems set to music:
Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers - I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain (Emily Dickinson)
Georges Brassens – La marine (Paul Fort)
Carla Bruni - Those Dancing Days Are Gone (W.B. Yeats)

Final thoughts - hip hop and poetry:
Childish Gambino - Sweatpants

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