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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 Ep 290. ...

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 episode Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister show:  SLEE...

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 B...

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 Keats’ letters Thom Gunn Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Yvor Win...

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 for Ben Boyd Rosemary Dobson Robe...

“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 Magazine December 2024 & January/February 2025 Rabbit 39: Mut...

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.com Sister 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 Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation by Leanne Ogasawara A Qui...

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 Berry’s 1993 I Evan Williams SLEERICKETS...

“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 Porter Priscilla, Queen of the...

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 Lehmann Fully Booked Angry Penguins The Jindyworobaks Max Harris The Ern Malley hoax...

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.com Sister 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 The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop The Orange...

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.com Sister 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 McAuley Australian Literar...

“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 Summer by Martin Harrison Email me: poetrysaysp...

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 (2022) Tool Bill Hicks Amy (201...

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 Brown Versed by Rae Armantrout Rae interviewed in BOMB by Ben Lerner A...

“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 Ezra Pound’s Cantos The Penguin Book of Chinese Poetr...

…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 You Have Anything Less Domestic? by Emilie Collye...

“…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 Twen...

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 U.S.-Australian Poeti...

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 Lionel Trilling George’s article  Does Mental I...

“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 Australia policy 1962 Four Corners vox pop on the White A...