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No really. Why do we live here? Show notes Lucy’s collection The Open Gareth Morgan’s review Shitheads: well are we doing this? Lucy’s interview for the NGV’s Triennial Voices Bella Li George Mouratidis Ocean Vuong Ep 174. Eleanor vs. The Ocean Vuong Phenomenon Figures, Lucy’s project with Laila Sakini The Third Thing by Donald Hall … Continue reading "Ep 180. Lucy Van on privacy, prizes, truth, and tennis"

Leave poetry alone! Show notes John Berryman Dream Song 14 & Berryman’s reading in Dublin in 1967 Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring Poetry Unbound The Slowdown The Poetry Society Windows by Louise Carter Ep 122. Antonia Pont: Pessimism is very imprecise Olio by Tyehimba Jess Dream Song 36 & Berryman’s reading (less drunk?)

Kate Middleton returns to talk about her role as Island’s poetry editor. Plus, some unsolicited advice. Show notes Iowa Writers’ Workshop Fiona Wright The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize Toby Fitch Owen Barfield Linda Gregerson Journals! Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit, Australian Book Review SLEERICKETS Ep. 14: M*****F***** of the Arts Robert Lowell on seals (honestly v. cool … Continue reading "Ep 178. Why do poetry journals keep rejecting me?"

90210. Dickens. Buffy. Henry James. Show notes Kate Middleton’s books Fire Season, Ephemeral Waters & Passage A poem from Television Luke Perry ‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles by Van Badham Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow’s podcast Call Your Girlfriend Scott Speedman Sarah Manguso Poets on Teaching by Joshua Marie Wilkinson Hoa … Continue reading "Ep 177. Kate Middleton on the death of Luke Perry"

Autumn Royal on writing poems in Roxby Downs, sessional teaching from a hot desk, appearing suss at art galleries, reality eclipsing her first book, and “grittiness”. Show notes Snake Story by Dorothy Porter Autumn’s collection She Woke & Rose Bernadette Mayer’s The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty Lacan on Death Lindsay Tuggle’s Calenture … Continue reading "Ep 176. Autumn Royal on the inescapable"

Pam Brown is back to talk new work, readings, myths, prize culture & the NBN. Show notes Stasis Shuffle Collected Works bookshop Ep 104. with Pam Sappho’s Ken Bolton Amelia Dale A.J. Carruthers Michael Farrell reads at Readings Laurie Duggan Pam’s review of Sydney Spleen by Toby Fitch The Jindyworobak Movement Let’s Get Lost by … Continue reading "Ep 175. Pam Brown returns"

Beware the Alley of Prosody. Show notes Ep 150. Nerding out with Eleanor BookTube Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Popular musician Beyoncé Emily Berry’s Unexhausted Time Exceptional song Love Again by Dua Lipa Thin Air by Linda Gregerson Outro: Happy Cat Disco … Continue reading "Ep 174. Eleanor vs. the Ocean Vuong Phenomenon"

Following on from last week, David Latham from fund the arts shares some hair-curling statistics about arts funding as it stands in the lead-up to the federal election. If you want to know more about the campaign, you can find them on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook. Show notes The Creativity in Crisis report Ben Eltham … Continue reading "Ep 173. Follow the money"

Unfortunately, your application was not successful on this occasion. Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter 2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry by Bonny Cassidy Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy Australia Council for the Arts The Stella Prize A message from the Australia Council CEO Can Australian … Continue reading "Ep 172. The Wizards of OzCo"

In/significance in poetry. Show notes I Was Minor by Olena Kalytiak Davis and her interview on the Commonplace podcast Poem by Weldon Kees The Disappearing Poet by Anthony Lane Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton – Lecture 3 Milton’s Ad Patrem George Green’s Summer of ’72

The managing editor of Cordite on acceptances, rejections, guest editors, money, book making and risk. Show notes Cordite Books, which has published poets including Jeanine Leane, John Mukky Burke, Alison Flett, Kim Cheng Boey, Tony Birch, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Omar Sakr & Lucy Van They will oxidise before you even finish reading, Kent’s piece for … Continue reading "Ep 170. Kent MacCarter: The publisher’s Kuiper Belt"

Hey Jane. Get me offa this crazy thing. Show notes So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993) Woman! Woman! (breakup) Harriet! Allen Ginsberg reads America Jack Kerouac reads American Haikus Episodes 150 & 101

Cassandra Atherton is extremely patient with my prose poetry skepticism. Show notes The Ordinary and the Unreal by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (Eliot: ‘Both verse and prose still conceal unexplored possibilities, but whatever one writes must be definitely and by inner necessity either one or the other.’) The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne … Continue reading "Ep 168. Cassandra Atherton: On finding your people"

Drawing lines and immediately walking over them. Show notes Scorsese on Marvel Movies Why do crickets chirp? Ep 163. with K Boys for Pele (1996) The Holiday (2006) Roderick on the Line (forever) Ep 118. with Alison Whittaker Alison’s review of Sarah Maddison SLEERICKETS Ep 45 Loma AKA Christopher Soto’s poem All The Dead Boys … Continue reading "Ep 167. Just like Scorsese"

Clutching my pearls over Instapoetry with Rachael Nielsen. (Write to me! poetrysayspod@gmail.com) Show notes Rabbit issue 24 Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf Lora Mathis Instagram Poetry for Every Day Segovia Amil Katy Waldman: “…there has to be a better way to lift up people with problems than to declare that problems … Continue reading "Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen: “Quote unquote real poetry.”"

Please give the academics more wine. Show notes T.S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness (2019) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes by Dan Chiasson High Windows by Philip Larkin No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief. by Gerard Manley Hopkins I always put my pussy… … Continue reading "Ep 165. “This is why people hate poetry!”"

Extremely reasonable and talented human being Thabani Tshuma talks me off various ledges. Show notes The Melba Speigeltent The Melbourne Spoken Word Prize Thabani’s poems Put It In Writing and No Strings La Mama Theatre The Thin Red Lines poetry event series Roger Selazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth Wanda … Continue reading "Ep 164. Thabani Tshuma: “It’s just gonna work out.”"

K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I. Show notes Nam on Wikipedia An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman Salvatore the seal

“To wake up and be like the weather to be no longer the broken hearted servants of mad kings.” Show notes Robert Montgomery The Great Resignation/Hidden Resignation Ep 147. with Dan Hogan Letters to a Young Poet & Rilke’s writing advice Carl Skoggard’s translation of Archaic Torso of Apollo The Grass Library & Ep 106. … Continue reading "Ep 162. Rilke vs. Mondays"

“Who on earth would sing, if song were merely an effortless warbling until kingdom come?” Show notes Vagabond’s new work campaign Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Everything you need to know about Rachel Hollis Ep 158 with Matthew Buckley Smith Sleerickets Ep 39 Envy by Contrapoints The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy Envy of Other … Continue reading "Ep 161. A deadly sin"