Poetry Says

My sign is vital, my hands are cold. Show notes I have a new mic setup and can hear I need to use my pop screen. I will. I’m so over you, LRB podcast The Best of Australian Poems 2023 Eat Carpet David Sims’ Letterboxd reviews SLEERICKETS Ep 1: That Poetry Voice Louise Glück reading The Wild Iris T.S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Ezra Pound reading Hugh Selwyn Mauberly Ro...

(And at Christmas you tell the truth.) You’re the best, John! Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister show:  SLEERICKETS

Staring at the sky, spinning in a circle. Ep. 246. on Spotify Wrapped etc. Grant Theft Auto IV Dorothy Porter John Forbes The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Didion’s quote about writing as a hostile act Ep. 157 pov u r the hot ex Versed by Rae Armantrout Glass and God by Anne Carson I’ll Come When Thou Art Saddest by Emily Bronte Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com S...

Alice gets really angry at a flower. Show notes The fucking flower An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray The Sydney Push The Barron Field Experience: On Fascism (the unfuckable bodies edition) Barron Field x Poetry Says Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Sister show:  SLEERICKETS

Three parts lunatic, one part yahoo, and one part potentially human. Show notes Spotify Wrapped Greek Tragedy by The Wombats Australian Poetry Now edited by Thomas Shapcott St Helens Books Sun Books and their impressive catalogue Barjai looks pretty cool Poets from this anthology I’ve talked about/to/around: Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Max Harris , Les Murray , Vicki Viidikas , John Tranter , Rob...

Alice is very angry at Bill Harwood. Show notes Joel Deane’s recent books Judas Boys and Year of the Wasp The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize Ken Babstock Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson C. K. Williams Helen Garner’s Yellow Notebook The Nicholas Building Kintsugi by Isi Unikowski Ep 244. on Harpur The Pioneer by Frederick McCubbin Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin Send me your silly poetry ques...

“The chances of death are very small.” Show notes Ep. 200 Anti-insights The Monkey’s Mask is available at Gertrude and Alice A primer of English versification by James McAuley My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Eliz...

Inbox Zero. Show notes James Schuyler This Dark Apartment Ken Bolton & Peter Bakowski’s recent books Nearly Lunch , The Elsewhere Variations , On Luck Street & Waldo’s Game Vale David Ferry Matthew & I talk Horace The Epistles of Horace Grandfather advised me by Lorine Niedecker The Poetry Foundation’s Ars Poetica Send me Christmas episode questions! poetrysayspod[at]...

TV party tonight! Show notes Joshua Mehigan Brooklyn Poets Josh’s poems Cold Turkey & The Cement Plant The Optimist (2004) & Accepting the Disaster (2014) Josh’s essay I Thought You Were A Poet Triolets Ep 217. To know is not to cure (on obsession) Ep 222. with Elijah The SLEERICKETS Substack Johnny Tremain Josh’s essay on his friendship with Edgar Bowers , Introduction t...

Solving the mystery of The Poetry Gods. Show notes The Poetry Gods Hosts Jon Sands , Aziza Barnes & José Olivarez Buy U A Drank by T-Pain Urban Word NYC Terrance Hayes Mahogany L. Browne Poetry Off the Shelf SupaDupaFresh Emotional Historians Willie Perdomo Paul Tran Tim Seibles AWP Jeanann Verlee Patricia Smith Cave Canem Kundiman praise song by Nate Marshall You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Gi...

“…the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.” Show notes Top three Brooklyn bookshops: Unnameable Books , Troubled Sleep , Freebird Books Reverse Cowgirl & Raving by McKenzie Wark Whitman in Black by Ted Berrigan R. A. Villanueva A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr Death, an Ode by John Forbes This Dark Apa...

“Make shit up. And that includes your life.” Show notes Pam Brown I must be living twice: new and selected poems 1975 -2014 by Eileen Myles Thomas Wyatt Measure for Measure Bernadette Mayer Alice Notley The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey Judy Grahn Jonathan Swift The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo Gareth Morgan’s wonderful chapbook Dear Eileen, SLEERICKETS Ep 125: Th...

Yeesh. Show notes Sorry, Neighbourhood Books Hello to the guy at Brunswick Second Hand Books Ep 187. Peak poetry Noel & Russell dubbed themselves The Goth Detectives… Meet Me In The Bathroom (2022) LA 92 (2017) The episode on Canberra Cringe by ContraPoints Europe Endless by John Forbes (towards the end of this great article) The episodes on John Forbes What a cool guy Brian introduces h...

“…you can’t sweeten me and I can’t comfort you.” Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss by Dorothy Porter Thank you (in order of appearance): Stu , Matthew , Shona (& Leela), Andrea , Felicity , Bec , Zara , Ethan , Anna, Liam , and Lou . Dorothy Porter books referenced: The Bee Hut , Crete , The Monkey’s Mask , Akhenaten Matthew’s poem Another Achilles

The biscuits were actually pretty good in the end. Time Machines by Caroline Williamson Sonic Poetry Festival sick leave Compass Pizza John Olsen Paul Klee Frank O’Hara Ken Bolton Pam Brown Gerry Burrowes Michael Farrell Newcastle Poetry Prize Gareth Morgan Harry Reid Adelstrop by Edward Thomas Matt , Matthew , Elijah Philip Larkin Judith Rodriguez Tom Shapcott Marilyn Hacker Jennifer Compton Epis...

“We were never married, Dido.” Joshua Mehigan Last year’s Forbes eps: part 1 & part 2 Dorothy Porter Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton The Aeneid   Lou = Louise Carter Christopher Brennan Award The Monkey’s Mask The Bee Hut Love Poems The Concise Oxford Companion to Classic...

Declaring literary bankruptcy. Lyn Hejinian’s My Life Jess Wilkinson Bonny Cassidy Language poetry Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet ModPo video on My Life Dr. Elese Dowden Ground Provisions by Tonika Sealy Thomson Stefano Harney Matthew’s excellent interview with Shane McRae The Brick interview with Percival Everett Mythology by Edith Hamilton True Stories by Helen Garner Time Capsule by David Ireland...

The Last Days of Foxtrot. Elijah’s episode on Hart Crane Upcoming courses at the Melbourne School of Literature Come to the launch of Golden Repair! Ep 229. Vintage gossip My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest The Literature of Australia edited by Geoffrey Dutton Evan Jones Norman Lindsay Vision, A Literary Quarterly Hugh McRae Francis Webb Judith Wright Rosemary Dobson V...

Sorry if it’s complicated. Truncated show notes Bundle O’ Books Making Your Own Days by Kenneth Koch My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest Cain Named the Animal by Shane McRae

A casual chat about psychoanalysis, feminism & The Voice. Alison J Barton Lacan Freud Justin Clemens You Will Not Know In Advance What You’ll Feel by Antonia Pont Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (‘The Voice’) Williamstown Literary Festival Ep 96. with Jeanine Leane Ep 70. with Claire Gaskin Ep 188. with Urs...

I made one cut in the intro because a pause was too long i’m so sorry Show notes The I Hate Matt Wall Poetry Podcast Matt’s interview with me The Blood Rag & The Bloodshed Review Matt’s episode about poets not promoting their work Matt’s episode about AI Matt’s books & chapbooks The Poetic Anarchy workshop Monsters in the Mouth by Bunny Wilde My interview with Paul Kane B...

Messrs Poetry on what is excellent, bad, fatal, useless, tame, “fluxive” & the best. Show notes Ep 228. with Ken Bolton The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter A Possible Contemporary Poetry: Interviews with thirteen poets from The New Australian Poetry by Martin Duwell New Poetry edited by Robert Adamson (I’m reading from Vol. 23 No. 3, 1975) The New American Poetry...

“Head first into the beautiful accident.” Ken Bolton Ken’s poem Beginning at Basheer’s Coffee Shop The Australian Experimental Art Foundation Imprints Booksellers John Tranter Ern Malley Robert Adamson Laurie Duggan Pam Brown John Forbes Dazed in the Ladies Lounge by John Tranter Ode to Col Joye , Tranter’s cheeky poem for Ken Coalcliff John Jenkins Jacket magazine Al...

Hindley Street via Scotland. Show notes Goodwood Books Alison Flett’s latest book Where We Are Alison’s poems Adelaide, I Dream You and Insects Friendly Street Poets Jill Jones Ken Bolton Little Windows No Wave Dominic Symes The Undying by Anne Boyer Island Judith Beveridge Rachael Mead Adam Ford’s Dance to the Anticlinal Fold tour La Mama Poetica July The Suburban Review’s...

Fake laughter in the rooftop bar. Fresh Air by Kenneth Koch With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman Brunswick Street Bookstore Silent co-producer K Ken Bolton John Forbes: Australia’s Wunderkind introduced by Aidan Coleman Brian Brodeur’s review of Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Po...