Poetry Says

…ended kinda medical. Show notes Isi Unikowski Music and Mystery: Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career by Christian Wiman The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews Ep 273. Submit Versecraft: The Case for Poetic Patronage Search Engine: Genesis (on cryptocurrency) The Infant Vine by Isabella G. Mead Gravidity and Parity by Eleanor Jackson Do … Continue reading "Ep 280. It started recreational"

“…You shiver on a tram.” Episode(s) playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Part 1 of this episode Wilsons Promontory Crimson rosella A Woman’s Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets edited by Jenny Digby The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets edited by Susan Hampton and Kate Llewellyn The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women’s Poetry Jonathan Farmer … Continue reading "Ep 279. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt. 2"

John Tranter vs. Tennessee Williams cage match. Show notes Ep 277. with George Mouratidis SLEERICKETS secret show John Tranter Tranter’s collection Crying in Early Infancy Ted Berrigan’s Sonnets The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter The two Tranter sonnets I talk about here Robert Adamson Robert Duncan Essential Gossip: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and … Continue reading "Ep 278. A good start"

On not having to deal with arseholes or put up with bullshit. George Mouratidis is published by Soul Bay Press Kalliope X Ep 273. Submit Ep 196. with James Jiang Meanjin Cordite Liminal Magazine Sticky Institute Thomastown Carlton North Brunswick John Waters CommSec  Vale Red Wheelbarrow Books The Wheeler Centre Allen Ginsberg William Carlos Williams … Continue reading "Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines"

“You big ugly…” Show notes Episode playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Venus Bay Surf diatom blooms (that brown stuff) Świdnica My Country by Dorothea Mackellar Countdown Peter Brock Molly Meldrum Slim Dusty How to End a Story by Helen Garner Murray Bail Peter Allen That Qantas ad The White … Continue reading "Ep 276. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt. 1"

Shout out to Penola! One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Mary Gilmore John Shaw Neilson The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley Harold Stewart Christopher Brennan Ep 244. on Charles Harpur Love’s Coming by John Shaw Neilson The Hour of Parting by John Shaw … Continue reading "Ep 275. The blue smoke of the mind"

“So many dead mutants with grudges…” flight animals by Bronwyn Lea Hyperbole by Belinda Rule Apollo Bay by William Fox That secret show episode Stu Joshua Mehigan’s essay I thought you were a poet Strangers in Paradise Gig Ryan Eileen Myles Alice Notley James Schuyler The Female Homer by Jeremy Downes Donna Haraway The Pioneer … Continue reading "274. Affinities and attentions"

Y O U R L O S S Fully half my brain is Spaced The Grinder Chill Subs Rabbit Jessica Wilkinson Bonny Cassidy The Empty Show Michael Farrell Elijah Blumov Joshua Mehigan Matthew Buckley Smith Ryan Wilson white nonsense To my artist friends The Dorothy Porter episodes Pt 1 & 2 The Bear Cold Turkey … Continue reading "Ep 273. Submit."

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. ‘Bombala Boss’: Harry Reid in Conversation with Michael Farrell The Melbourne School of Literature on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter D. Perez McVie Elese Dowden Lucy Van James Jiang Joshua Mehigan Psychoanalysis, an Elegy by Jack Spicer The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer Autumn Royal … Continue reading "Ep 272. Eva Birch: What’s the tea?"

There’s something wrong with your priest. The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry Our Horace episode on SLEERICKETS Getting Horace Across by J. Kates Horace iv.i ‘To Venus’ The Essential Horace translated by Burton Raffel Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy The Balcony by David Brooks Fully Booked The Penguin Book of Chinese … Continue reading "Ep 271. Love again"

The poetry bus looks fun, but… Show notes Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer The Fish and At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Finding a Long Gray Hair by Jane Kenyon Alan Shapiro Jonathan’s review of Colm Tóibín’s book On Elizabeth Bishop Departing Afghanistan by William … Continue reading "Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”"

On not being up to the task. An ode to the end of poetry by Stan Grant Erik Jensen Stan Grant leaves Q+A Tracy K. Smith The Slowdown K & I track Nam Le’s poem Abbotsford I 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do … Continue reading "Ep 269. Another ending"

O’Hara, Berrigan, Forbes, and other animals. Show notes The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes: Prick’d by Charm by Duncan Hose Ted Berrigan Ron Padgett Jorge Luis Borges Walt Whitman Berrigan’s 10 things I do every day To the bobbydazzlers by John Forbes Berrigan’s Sonnets The Personal … Continue reading "Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk"

“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…” Show notes Chocolate nemesis The Tour by pi o Getting Shirty by Lucy Van Geoff Page reviews The Tour The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer Anne Sexton Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review by Emily Temple James Dickey The Black … Continue reading "Ep 267. Writing for revenge"

Cats don’t know things, but you do! Show notes Television by Kate Middleton Isabella G. Mead Venus Without Furs by Gabrielle Everall Joshua Mehigan What is a poetry magazine for? by Victoria Moul Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business Ep 259. It means what it says David makes Ratbag Poetics Notes on “Camp” by Susan … Continue reading "Ep 266. Poetry camp"

Poetry ≠ therapy? Show notes There’s a lot of swearing in this episode. It also gets quite dark. The Friendless podcast guy What happened when I went for therapy — at a poetry retreat by Ian Belcher Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore by Kyle Chakra Kiefer Sutherland Twitch The Possible … Continue reading "Ep 265. The Internet is for poems"

The rest is still unwritten… Show notes Anyone But You (2023) The Hills Kyle & Morgan Kevin Kelly Carl Sagan Stewart Brand R. Buckminster Fuller The Geodesic dome Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance Business and Poetry by Dana Gioia Bucky’s poetry books Intuition, No More Secondhand God, And It Came To Pass—Not To Stay … Continue reading "Ep 264. A poet of the future"

“There’s a damp melancholy / in Tang poetry…” Show notes Poetry as therapy. Thoughts? Email me. Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov (on Harwood’s ‘Prize-Giving’) Elijah covers ‘At Mornington’ on Versecraft 300 Tang Poems translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman & David Lunde Li Bai Du Fu In Our Time: Tang Era Poetry … Continue reading "Ep 263. Water-dragon blues"

“We are our own.” Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Ratbag Poetics on Spotify My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Gwen Harwood Woman to Man by Judith Wright James McAuley Eliza Cook Vincent Buckley The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award FUCK ALL EDITORS/SO LONG BULLETIN Gig Ryan A. D. Hope … Continue reading "Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business"

Today’s best worker takes gardening leave. Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Asynchrony by Josephine Rowe Ep 260. with Dom Symes Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work by Louis Klee A Hunger by Petra White Ep 84. with Petra White  Ep 221. with pi o and Collective Effort The Instrument by Les Murray 925  Off the … Continue reading "Ep 261. Weird funemployment"