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Friday arvo in the park. Show notes A Walk in Kensington Gardens by Dorothy Porter Silent co-producer K Elizabeth Morgan House Antonia Pont Dorothy Porter’s The Bee Hut Ep 179. Solace & Trash Cary Tennis: All the practice you get makes you better David Ireland Brendan Casey & the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy Bruce … Continue reading "Ep 200. Anti-insights"

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” Show notes The Monthly’s culture issue Strength to strength by Alison Croggan The ideal reader by Gerald Murnane Australians all, let us read verse by Sarah Holland-Batt Les Murray Les Murray in conversation at UTS Kenneth Slessor Ep 42. with Alan Wearne Burton Raffel Horace’s … Continue reading "Ep 199. Answered prayers"

Gatekeepers, puff pieces, labour and care. Show notes If I Had a Gun by Gig RyanFelicity Plunkett’s books Vanishing Point & A Kinder SeaEp. 196 with James JiangUniversity of Queensland PressDavid MaloufNathan ShepherdsonThe Lost Arabs by Omar SakrExactly As I Am by Rae WhiteEp 170. with Kent MacCarterStuart BarnesBeatrice Deloitte DavisJessica WilkinsonPoetry on the Move … Continue reading "Ep 198. Felicity Plunkett on the poetry editor’s invisible work"

A completely normal, acceptable human emotion. Show notes Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the InfluencePoems That Make Grown Women CryThe Poetry PharmacyDo not go gentle into that good night by Dylan ThomasJennifer ComptonSLEERICKETS Ep 7: My love is like a red, red grawlixTo Whoever Set My Truck on Fire by Steve ScafidiCanto IX from … Continue reading "Ep 197. Fury"

‘There’s something fraught about even the most informal encounters…’ Show notes James Jiang’s article in the ABR: Blurb Praise and Hot TakesGareth Morgan’s review of Petra White’s CitiesBen Etherington’s article The Poet TastersEp 148. with Loki LiddleThe inimitable Martin DuwellEp 78. with Lisa GortonFostered alike by beauty and by fear (Wordsworth)Art historian Charles HarrisonThe Lyre … Continue reading "Ep 196. James Jiang: A certain claustrophobia"

What is a ratbag? Show notes Harry Reid’s full-length collection Leave Me Alone & chapbook the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friendsick leave, co-directed by Harry, Gareth Morgan & Ursula Robinson-ShawMatthew’s introDropbear by Evelyn AraluenBlakwork by Alison WhittakerMelody PalomaBella LiRATBAG editorial by Duncan HoseJohn Forbes & my month with … Continue reading "Ep 195. Harry Reid: Poetry rocks"

Shock: I was (and am) a teacher’s pet. Show notes Recorded on the 10-year anniversary of ModPo, which is taught by Al Filreis & his team.Delmore SchwartzKenneth Koch: ‘I Like Writing’ by Bill ZavatskyA Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead by Kenneth KochPogoAlso if you want to watch over two hours … Continue reading "Ep 194. Learning to read"

Eleanor & I get all judgey. Show notes Eleanor’s Forward Prize reviewsScattered Snows to the North by Carl PhillipsI’m Shouting I LOVED YOUR DAD at my Brother’s Cat by Cecelia KnappPollen by Clare PollardDog on a British Airways Airbus 319-100 by Louisa CampbellUp Late by Nick LairdEvelyn Araluen’s Stella Prize acceptance speechJacques RoubaudOutro: DJ Kal … Continue reading "Ep 193. Prize fight"

“The space I felt between me and the world I was always filling with journalism. Poetry utterly collapsed that space.” Show notes Erik Jensen Acute Misfortune (Black Inc. 2014) and the film I said the sea was folded (Black Inc. 2021) On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen (Black Inc. 2017) The Saturday … Continue reading "Ep 192. Erik Jensen: Intimacy and trespass"

‘…& said quietly, ‘Sir, sir’ / & heroin let him leave the room.’ With thanks to Ken, Lou, Alan, Ben, Aidan, K, Cameron, Liam, Matthew & Eleanor. Speed, a Pastoral by John Forbes Ken Bolton The Poetry of John Forbes by Ken Bolton That interview with David Brooks John Keats Ode to a Nightingale Gustave … Continue reading "Ep 191. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 2"

‘it’s fun to take speed / & stay up all night…’ With thanks to Eleanor, Lou & Liam. Show notes the sealey challenge Red Room’s Poetry Month John Forbes Speed, a Pastoral Carlton Gardens Poetry Foundation’s definition of the pastoral Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella “A land of sweeping … Continue reading "Ep 190. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 1"

“I don’t believe rules are absolute.” Show notes Tracy Ryan’s books include Scar Revision, Rose Interior & The Argument Judith Wright Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich Prisoner Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella Jennifer Strauss Barn Owl by Gwen Harwood Self Publishing by Ouyang Yu The Rose Interior … Continue reading "Ep 189. Tracy Ryan: Infinite pie"

Contains adult themes. Show notes Ursula Robinson-Shaw’s chapbooks Noonday and YEARN MALLEY sick leave Dissociating the Novel (review of New Animal by Ella Baxter) Where Do We Go From Nowhere? (review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle) Fleabag Nanette Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts On Heteropessimism by Asa Seresin Mike Crumplar The Garret … Continue reading "Ep 188. Ursula Robinson-Shaw: Beast Mode"

The black swan of trespass is coming for us all. Show notes Missy Elliott’s Under Construction Peak oil The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Margot Robbie in The Big Short Decoder Ring: The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen on Instapoets Ep 134. Justin Clemens on Amanda Gorman and many … Continue reading "Ep 187. Peak poetry"

Is poetry ever propaganda? Show notes “And I have always felt sorry for people who didn’t grow up next to an ocean, who couldn’t find a similar kind of privacy, the privacy of this interval.” — Lucy Van, The Open Ep 181. Midwinter Day Joshua Mehigan Matthew makes the podcast Sleerickets (it’s very good) Ep … Continue reading "Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy"

Or, When Robert met Lizzy. (With yet more thanks to K.) Show notes Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton Randall Jarrell At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop Turning Pain Into Art by … Continue reading "Ep 185. Big sad poetry friendship"

“We live in such a strange world. It’s weird to create monuments to it.” Gareth Morgan’s books Dear Eileen and When a Punk Becomes a Spunk sick leave Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy Dan Tout’s article Neither Nationalists nor Universalists: Rex Ingamells and the Jindyworobaks Obscurity in Poetry — A Spectrum by Geoff Page The … Continue reading "Ep 184. Gareth Morgan: Vagabond"

“You must be a poet. You talk funny.” When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon Master of Crying Terence Davies The Veleta (which I only do when pressed) The rogerebert.com review of Benediction SMH review: Terence Davies calls Benediction his best movie. I beg to differ (I did not mention this earlier. … Continue reading "Ep 183. Poets on film (a tragedy)"

On tour in Australia from Finland, Nicholas Powell walks me through his new book, Trap Landscape. Joan Fleming’s launch Reagan Sova’s book trailer Ep 42. with Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford SLEERICKETS Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos My appearance on The Imposter Syndrome Club podcast Rae Armantrout’s poem Our Days Archives Fine Books Ep 155. … Continue reading "Ep 182. Nicholas Powell on taking cheeky seriously"

Recorded on Tuesday June 21, 2022. (More on that.) Show notes Bernadette Mayer Midwinter Day Mayer, Al & the gang talking about 19th century high school poetry Mayer’s writing experiments Commonplace Episode 15: Bernadette Mayer Ted Berrigan Alice Notley Exceptionally entertaining poetry podcast SLEERICKETS now has cool t-shirts (and a secret show)