Poetry Says

Shout out to Penola! One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Mary Gilmore John Shaw Neilson The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley Harold Stewart Christopher Brennan Ep 244. on Charles Harpur Love’s Coming by John Shaw Neilson The Hour of Parting by John Shaw Neilson Voss by Patrick White (Laura is her name) Email me:...

“So many dead mutants with grudges…” flight animals by Bronwyn Lea Hyperbole by Belinda Rule Apollo Bay by William Fox That secret show episode Stu Joshua Mehigan’s essay I thought you were a poet Strangers in Paradise Gig Ryan Eileen Myles Alice Notley James Schuyler The Female Homer by Jeremy Downes Donna Haraway The Pioneer by Frederick McCubbin (he lives, she dies) The...

Y O U R L O S S Fully half my brain is Spaced The Grinder Chill Subs Rabbit Jessica Wilkinson Bonny Cassidy The Empty Show Michael Farrell Elijah Blumov Joshua Mehigan Matthew Buckley Smith Ryan Wilson white nonsense To my artist friends The Dorothy Porter episodes Pt 1 & 2 The Bear Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan (it’s not “my” it’s “our” in his) Happiness by...

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. ‘Bombala Boss’: Harry Reid in Conversation with Michael Farrell The Melbourne School of Literature on Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter D. Perez McVie Elese Dowden Lucy Van James Jiang Joshua Mehigan Psychoanalysis, an Elegy by Jack Spicer The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer Autumn Royal Yale’s Milton lectures Landspeed Recor...

There’s something wrong with your priest. The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry Our Horace episode on SLEERICKETS Getting Horace Across by J. Kates Horace iv.i ‘To Venus’ The Essential Horace translated by Burton Raffel Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy The Balcony by David Brooks Fully Booked The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister sh...

The poetry bus looks fun, but… Show notes Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer The Fish and At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Finding a Long Gray Hair by Jane Kenyon Alan Shapiro Jonathan’s review of Colm Tóibín’s book On Elizabeth Bishop Departing Afghanistan by William H. McRaven James McAuley Ep...

On not being up to the task. An ode to the end of poetry by Stan Grant Erik Jensen Stan Grant leaves Q+A Tracy K. Smith The Slowdown K & I track Nam Le’s poem Abbotsford I 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do by Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest podcast Object of Sound Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss Ikiru (1952) Brid...

O’Hara, Berrigan, Forbes, and other animals. Show notes The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes: Prick’d by Charm by Duncan Hose Ted Berrigan Ron Padgett Jorge Luis Borges Walt Whitman Berrigan’s 10 things I do every day To the bobbydazzlers by John Forbes Berrigan’s Sonnets The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McA...

“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…” Show notes Chocolate nemesis The Tour by pi o Getting Shirty by Lucy Van Geoff Page reviews The Tour The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer Anne Sexton Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review by Emily Temple James Dickey The Black Ar...

Cats don’t know things, but you do! Show notes Television by Kate Middleton Isabella G. Mead Venus Without Furs by Gabrielle Everall Joshua Mehigan What is a poetry magazine for? by Victoria Moul Ep 262.  Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business Ep 259.  It means what it says David makes Ratbag Poetics Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag Phillip Hodgins Crazy Woman and Other Po...

Poetry ≠ therapy? Show notes There’s a lot of swearing in this episode. It also gets quite dark. The Friendless podcast guy What happened when I went for therapy — at a poetry retreat by Ian Belcher Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore by Kyle Chakra Kiefer Sutherland Twitch The Possible Dream (Buying Jeans Online) by Melinda Bufton Slacklining Arthur...

The rest is still unwritten… Show notes Anyone But You (2023) The Hills Kyle & Morgan Kevin Kelly Carl Sagan Stewart Brand R. Buckminster Fuller The Geodesic dome Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance Business and Poetry by Dana Gioia Bucky’s poetry books Intuition , No More Secondhand God , And It Came To Pass—Not To Stay New Directions’ Black Mountain Poems Operating Man...

“There’s a damp melancholy / in Tang poetry…” Show notes Poetry as therapy. Thoughts? Email me. Ep 262. with  Ann-Marie Priest Ep 222.  Grilling Elijah Blumov (on Harwood’s ‘Prize-Giving’) Elijah covers ‘At Mornington’ on Versecraft 300 Tang Poems translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman & David Lunde Li Bai Du Fu In Our Time: Tang Era...

“We are our own.” Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Ratbag Poetics on Spotify My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Gwen Harwood Woman to Man by Judith Wright James McAuley Eliza Cook Vincent Buckley The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award FUCK ALL EDITORS/SO LONG BULLETIN Gig Ryan A. D. Hope Vivian Smith Norman Talbot Blessed City: The Letters of Gwen Harwoo...

Today’s best worker takes gardening leave. Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Asynchrony by Josephine Rowe Ep 260. with  Dom Symes Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work by Louis Klee A Hunger by Petra White Ep 84. with  Petra White   Ep 221. with  pi o and Collective Effort The Instrument by Les Murray 925   Off the Record Jas Duke   Harry Reid Ursula Robinson-Sha...

Stop rock climbing, interrogate your life. Show notes Dom Symes’ book I Saw the Best Memes of My Generation Ken Bolton Thom Gunn Mick Jagger and David Bowie ‘were lovers’ La Mama Poetica Ep 209.  Funny ha ha On The Beach: A Bicentennial Poem by John Forbes If I Had a Gun by Gig Ryan pi o Ania Walwicz The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Ocean Vuong Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen Totem...

Sha-la-la-la, la-la-la, la. Show notes Sharks’ Teeth by Kay Ryan Ratbag Poetics Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Past Present Future with David Runciman Desperately Seeking Susan by Terry Castle Against Interpretation If Not, Winter (Carson’s Sappho) Fagles’ Aeneid Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock Letterboxd Richard Brody In America The Bear True Detective: Night Coun...

Questioning the promised land. Show notes Chinese Fish by Grace Yee The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Grace’s interview with Liminal Magazine Nadia Niaz Ep 118.  Alison Whittaker   Ep 216.  Mindy Gill Ep 221.  pi o and Collective Effort Jess Wilkinson’s maironette: a biography of miss marion davies Ep 251.  The Poet Eaters (on reviews) Ep 256. ...

“The movie with Jason Alexander.” Show notes Ep 215.  The collapsing building Ep 235.  Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 1 Here’s a playlist of all the songs Love Again by Philip Larkin Love Poem by John Forbes is in his Collected Poems While We Were Arguing by Jane Kenyon Confined Love by John Donne Balkan by David Brooks is in The Balcony When Desire’s Gone by Dorothy...

My tribute to The Big Chill. Show notes Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday by Rachel Zucker In The Park by Gwen Harwood Jane Kenyon The Black Art by Anne Sexton Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister show:  SLEERICKETS

Dear Penguin Random House… Show notes Avenue Bookstore Faber & Faber’s “liberty” poetry diary , normal poetry diary & journal Feud: Capote vs. The Swans Answered Prayers by Truman Capote As You Know, Bob Uncertainty Principle at Dawn by Catherine Barnett Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Nightmare Magazine Uncanny Magazine Adam Ford John Mateer Ep 228. with  Ken Bolto...

Productivity & wellness tips for poets! Show notes Antonia Pont The article we discuss isn’t published (yet), but I’m sure we can slip you a copy if you’d like… Antonia’s essays The anatomy of a trigger , The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy and Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination Ep 122. Pessimism is very imprecise Antonia’s collection You Will Not Know...

Now, it’s all up to the judges. Show notes Love poem dedications coming up on Ratbag Poetics ! My interview with Matthew about his beautiful book Midlife Ep 251. The Poet Eaters Adam of Chewton Ep 252. with Geoff Page The Compulsive Reader Me fail? I fly! SLEERICKETS Ep 14: Motherfucker of the Arts on Ben Lerner’s The Lights Hunter Publishers Small Publishers and the Emerging Network o...

Vale Alex Phemister. Show notes Geoff Page’s latest books 101 Poems (2011-2021) and Penultima Ep 251. The Poet Eaters The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington Obscurity in Poetry: A Spectrum Ep 215. The collapsing building Ep 212. Paul Kane Smiths Alternative Geoff’s reviews in ABR C.P. Cavafy Bundah Forever! Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister show:  SLEERICKETS

Look at this ‘graph. Show notes My interview with Aaron Irwin The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington milk and honey by Rupi Kaur Kate Baer Peter Craven Martin Duwell’s Australian Poetry Review Ep 196.  James Jiang: A certain claustrophobia The journals: Cordite , Australian Book Review , Rochford Street Review , Mascara , Southerly , Rabbit , Sydney Review of Books , Quadrant , foam:e, Me...