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Paradise Lost: Books VII-XII. Show notes Paradise Lost by John Milton Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton with Professor John Rogers Justin Clemens George Mouratidis Men and their Boring Arguments by Wendy Cope Elijah Blumov An excerpt from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Pajama Quotient by Linda Gregerson Jonathan Farmer Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence … Continue reading "Ep 299. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 2"

Paradise Lost: Books I-VI. Show notes Paradise Lost by John Milton Ep 234. Not reading My Life Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton Justin Clemens Ep 265. The Internet is for poems Northrop Frye SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy? Epode II by Horace That Spotify playlist Pyrrhics Spondees Songs & clips from this … Continue reading "Ep 298. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 1"

People like poems about bees. Show notes Interviews with Kent McCarter (Cordite), Jess Wilkinson (Rabbit), Kate Middleton (Island), Toby Fitch (Overland), Terri-ann White (Upswell), and Sarah Holland-Batt (the laureateship) Trello David Allen Jubilat Seizure David Brooks Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry edited by Bonny Cassidy & Jess Wilkinson Michael Farrell Flash Cove The Helen Anne Bell … Continue reading "Ep 297. Everything I know about publishing poetry"

Against the myth of the garret. Show notes Love Streams (1984) A Plague of Poets by C. D. Wright Ep 294. The American Ecstatic Christian Wiman SLEERICKETS Ep 180: AMA 2025 The legendary La Mama Theatre My Tongue Is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Bass Strait Vincent Buckley Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest Selections from … Continue reading "Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics"

Your favourite poet’s favourite poet. Show notes Francis Webb Francis Webb Collected Poems edited and introduced by Toby Davidson More resources on the Webb centenary: more publications and live readings to come! Judith Wright Les Murray Gwen Harwood Callum Park Hospital for the Insane The Bulletin Douglas Stewart Angus & Robertson Norman Lindsay A Drum … Continue reading "Ep 295. The Webb Moment"

“I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions.” Show notes SLEERICKETS Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss praise song by Nate Marshall (link to Marshall’s reading at the top) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman Anaphora Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats by Kaveh Akbar Poetry … Continue reading "Ep 294. The American Ecstatic"

Is the cake a metaphor? Show notes Episode playlist Ep 257. on love songs Ep 219. on The Mountain Goats Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) The Beatles: Get Back Made of Cocaine Vauxhall and I Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

The road not taken looks real good now. Show notes Send us your AMA questions! sleerickets[at]gmail.com Christmas beetles Flippys D. Perez-McVie’s Gender Is The Extent We Go To In Order To Be Loved Slow Loris chapbooks Rabbit Poetry Siân Vate’s feels right Ep 288. on Shikishi Isabella G. Mead A Room of One’s Own: On … Continue reading "Ep 292. The silly season"

Poets as adults. Show notes Francis Webb The Saturday Paper The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair by Lauren Michele Jackson How America Embraced Gender War by Jia Tolentino Ep 254. with Antonia Pont Mr Bookman visits Seinfeld Substack Atticus Poetry Unbound’s post Art and coalition On Being Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots and his post on Wendell … Continue reading "Ep 291. Bathroom seashells"

“I am on an aggrieved island…” Show notes Voss by Patrick White Britannica’s definition of the Gothic novel Penguin’s definition of American Gothic literature Gerry Turcotte’s definition of the Australian Gothic Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side by Emma Doolan The paper chase by Hal … Continue reading "Ep 290. Australian Gothic"

The pirate’s life for me. Show notes Starter episodes! (Let me know if I forgot one you think I should include.) WFH (a rat bastard poem) by Harry Reid Women Don’t Have Shadows Not Telling by Alison J Barton Ep 231. with Alison J Barton The Younger Australian Poets edited by Robert Gray & Geoffrey … Continue reading "Ep 289. Alpha Sandpit"

Pass the butter. Show notes Antonia! Princess Shikishi Emperor Go-Shirakawa The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite & Geoffrey Bownas String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi translated by Hiroaki Sato Japanese Death Poems edited by Yoel Hoffmann Tanka Basho The Tales of Genji    Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

Giving the kids their boring magic. Show notes Jonathan Farmer Matthew Buckley Smith Church Going by Philip Larkin Why Poetry is Making a Comeback in Schools on Mindshift/KQED Ode to Kool-Aid by Marcus Jackson In Praise of Okra by January Gill O’Neil Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth Bishop Shane McCrae Gabrielle Calvocoressi … Continue reading "Ep 287. Live Poets Society"

Storytime: I was a teenage Maxx fan. Show notes Once again, the crimson rosella The Maxx Old Gregg Eat Carpet Ep 267. On nemeses The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers Anatomy of a Fall (2023) monologue Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

Tending the thousand flowers. Show notes Martin Duwell Australian Poetry Review Jacket interview: Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher Martin’s review of David Brooks’ New and Selected William Logan Dipped in Vitriol edited by Nicholas Parsons No Turn Unstoned edited by Diana Rigg Patrick White James Jiang Vincent Buckley A. D. (Alec) Hope James … Continue reading "Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity"

“No quitting.” Show notes Louise Carter Ester Perel Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8 Lou’s poems Marrickville and Windows Lou’s book Golden Repair Helen Garner AWARD School Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies UTS Sappho Books Lyn Hejinian Ali Cobby Eckermann pi o Ivor Indyk Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark … Continue reading "Ep 284. Louise Carter and the Gilded Door"

Or, More Lasting Than Monsters. Show notes Ep 265. The Internet is for poems Matthew Buckley Smith The Silver Swan by Gwen Harwood New Verse Review Search Engine: What Do Trigger Warnings Actually Do? Ep 222. with Elijah on Harwood My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Octavia Butler To Marylin Manson by Matthew Buckley Smith Phoenix Rising … Continue reading "Ep 283. Tool time"

On tour in Oz! Show notes Rae Armantrout Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis Michael Farrell In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound Georgic by Kate Liley Lionel Fogarty Go Figure by Rae Armantrout Rae’s poems The Way and Travelling through the Yard Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford Pam … Continue reading "Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time"

“I seem to be a little bit less burdened by myself.” Show notes The Poetry Detective Ern Malley David Brooks’ books include Walking to Point Clear, The Sons of Clovis, The Balcony, Animal Dreams, and The other side of daylight Ep 106 with David Maud Rilke’s Duino Elegies The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell … Continue reading "Ep 281. David Brooks returns"