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Convalescence correspondence. Show notes Causeway (2022) Ep 215. The collapsing building Ep 219. This is scripture Liam Ferney’s article ‘I wrote this one and I know it ain’t great’: The Disruptive Poetry of Songwriting Lucinda Williams’ article on Frank Stanford Ep 42. Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford Sarah Holland-Batt’s books Aria & The Jaguar Ep … Continue reading "Ep 220. Mostly horizontal"

Matthew Buckley Smith returns to talk about The Mountain Goats. Show notes Playlist for this episode The Last Waltz (1978) Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden New Yorker interview: John Darnielle Wants to Tell You a Story Wolf in White Van Universal Harvester Matthew’s show SLEERICKETS

It’s just like the Oscars! Maggie Ball’s books include her new collection BobishPuncher & WattmannThe Compulsive ReaderModPoI Love Poetry by Michael FarrellTender Buttons by Gertrude SteinGreen Light by Kenneth FearingAnupama PilbrowMoon Wrasse by Willo DrummondEp 198. with Felicity PlunkettLike To The Lark by Stuart BarnesThe Montreal International Poetry PrizeThe Newcastle Poetry PrizeHunter Writers CentreJill JonesTW … Continue reading "Ep 218. Maggie Ball on poetry competitions"

I’ve got 500 in twenties… Show notes The Swimmer by John Cheever The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lange City Middle by The National Voss by Patrick White Gerard Manley Hopkins To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall by John Keats I Thought You Were a Poet by Joshua Mehigan If … Continue reading "Ep 217. To know is not to cure"

“What is the thing that is blocking the person from engaging with the work itself?” Show notes Mindy Gill’s article Till ‘real voices’ wake us, and we drown: The mire of identity politics Sarah Holland-Batt That conversation about Audre Lorde is on SLEERICKETS The Sweatshop anthology Racism and Mindy’s review Jaya Savige The Boat by … Continue reading "Ep 216. Mindy Gill: Seeing multiplicities"

I heart Canberra. For anyone who ever hung out at Impact without ever buying anything, caught the 333 to Civic instead of going to school, met a friend at the Goon Bag, kissed someone in the Woden bus interchange, drove up Mount Ainslie on a Saturday night, rode a shopping trolley down the Dickson stormwater … Continue reading "Ep 215. The collapsing building"

“I just persisted.” Show notes Stephen Edgar Where the Trees Were Lost in the Foreground Stephen’s new and selected The Strangest Place won the 2021 PM’s literary award for poetry Joshua Mehigan 18 Poems by Dylan Thomas Once again, A. D. Hope Gwen Harwood Clive James Phillip Hodgins Anthony Hecht Quadrant (wow.) Stephen’s poems Man … Continue reading "Ep 214. Stephen Edgar, man on the moon"

“Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey…” Show notes Look at all these straightforward interviews you could listen to! In Our Time, John Donne SLEERICKETS The one about fury The Close Readings podcast Just the romance section of Mills & Boon Various Sappho 130s Holy Sonnet 14 by Donne … Continue reading "Ep 213. Hot and bothered"

A different take on the Aussie renaissance. Paul Kane’s book Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity Judith Wright Gwen Harwood Paul is awarded the Order of Australia A. D. Hope  Les Murray John Kinsella Ali Alizadeh interviews Paul Kane Phillip Hodgins Martin Duwell reviews Paul Kane’s A Slant of Light Richard Howard Elizabeth Bishop Mark Strand … Continue reading "Ep 212. Paul Kane: The view from the volcano"

Emails! Fame, errors, legacy, glamour. Once again, The Lyre in the Pawnshop by Fay Zwicky Jan Zwicky You Must Believe in Spring by Bill Evans Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux Ken Bolton Ep 209. Funny ha ha Robert Adamson’s poems for Joanne Kyger The New American Poetry edited by Donald Allen (imagine if it was edited … Continue reading "Ep 211. The gaps I mean"

Come on, boffins! …show notes?! The Barron Field Experience is Justin Clemens, Adam Bartlett & Bryan Cooke Plato loves the drama Justin Clemens’ new book A Foul Wind Michel de Certeau  John Forbes, one-liner queen Francis Bacon’s idea of The Great Instauration Poetry readings Forms of rot The State Perpetual reform  Tech bros The new Tesla … Continue reading "Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat"

“And who are you here with tonight?” Show notes SLEERICKETS Horace chatJudith Lucy vs MenClose Readings Live: The Waste LandThe JindyworobaksA Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles HarpurNews of the Sun by Rex IngamellsYarra Cottage Books in WarrandyteA D HopeThe Malley HoaxTerra Australis by James McAuleyIn The Park by Gwen HarwoodMunicipal Gum by … Continue reading "Ep 209. Funny ha ha"

Wagging with the Westralians. Show notes Lucy Dougan’s books Monster Field, The Guardians & White ClayGiramondo Publishing Andrea ArnoldWasp (2003)Fish Tank (2009)American Honey (2016)Wuthering Heights (2011)Spawn (1997)Barbara PymFay ZwickyCrawling Across Tram Tracks: Extracts from Volumes 5 & 6 of Fay Zwicky’s Journal‘I Am a Chthonic Poet’: Fay Zwicky and the Writing under the Writing by … Continue reading "Ep 208. Lucy Dougan: Hedge school"

Hang on, I’m telling a story. To recap: I like Philip’s poems All hail Queen Joan Do not sign up for Letterboxd under any circumstances Yes I watched Showgirls (1995) You Don’t Nomi (2019) is pretty good Jan Zwicky’s Lyric Philosophy sounds like a smart book I’ve never read any Robert Bly I mispronounced Tomas … Continue reading "Ep 207. Ask Me Anything"

Rabbit, where’d you put the keys, girl? Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com A Primer of English Versification by James McAuley Joshua Mehigan The White Lotus theme song Mascara Literary Review To the Bramble and the Briar: Poems by Steve Scafidi Ep 197. on Fury The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt Jan Zwicky The Lyre in … Continue reading "Ep 206. Small magic"

“It seemed like such a far-fetched notion that I could make something of myself as an artist…” Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Good poetry podcasts Versecraft and Close Readings (and SLEERICKETS, of course) Sweatshop Literacy Movement Another Australia edited by Winnie Dunn (Affirm Press, 2022) L-FRESH the Lion Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad The Mother … Continue reading "Ep 205. Winnie Dunn: The realities of Australia"

“I’m young and strong and nothing can touch me!” Show notes Berryman by W. S. Merwin Ep 202. Who makes the poem? What Pragmatism Means by William James Matt interviews Matthew Freckles on the Face of California by Halsey Trash, Art and the Movies by Pauline Kael The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) Dark … Continue reading "Ep 204. Being bad"

Skepticism, change, and poems from Long Bay Gaol. Show notes Sarah Holland-Batt’s collections The Jaguar, The Hazards & Aria Fishing for Lightning Michael Massey Robinson My episode about poet laureates Australians all, let us read verse by Sarah Holland-Batt Les Murray Floral Tribute by Simon Armitage Black Inc.s’ Best Australian Poems The Royal Commission into Aged … Continue reading "Ep 203. Sarah Holland-Batt: The poems themselves"

And who really pulled the trigger on JFK? Hey, come see me at Lit Balm this weekend (5pm Saturday US East Coast time/9am Sunday Australian East Coast time). K Post Malone Migos Al Filreis Joshua Mehigan Sociological institutionalism Toscanini Whiplash Aidan Coleman in my ep on John Forbes Bean Spasms by Ted Berrigan Billy Collins … Continue reading "Ep 202. Who makes the poem?"

I need to go water my plant now. Starter episodes: Tracy Ryan, Antonia Pont, Peak Poetry, Thuy On Sister podcast SLEERICKETS Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino Googlecholia by Michael Farrell Vincent Buckley Brunswick Secondhand Books I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadija Queen Walter … Continue reading "Ep 201. Haunted house of poetry"