Poetry Says

“Please, even against the odds, think about this as a long-term prospect.” Upswell Gleebooks Elizabeth Jolley Terri-ann on The Garret The immortal Collected Works Admissions edited by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury & Mohammad Awad Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell Overland (or can I?) Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Ruthless weeding and pruning:  SLEERICKETS

Show me your pasodoble! Show notes None other than Matt Wall Look at all those chickens Elijah’s show Versecraft The Case for Metre and Rhyme:  Part 1  &  Part 2 Bernadette slams old-school tools Friend of the show Liam Ferney Dropping Leaflets by Jena Osman Tinx explains why we’re dating all wrong Important meme 4 Anna Robert Bly SLEERICKETS Ep 110: Both Sides Event...

Plus, the poetry workshop comes to Berghain. Peter Bakowski The Gleaners and I (2000) Anne Sexton Robert Frost Schopenhauer sez: “One should use common words to say uncommon things” Billy Collins Charles Bukowski Fitzroy St Kilda Pellegrini’s Geoff Dyer Brendan Ryan Phillip Hodgins Geoff Page Dorothy Porter Australia Council for the Arts come at me Ep 187. Peak poetry Anthem for a Doomed Youth by...

I love you, Leigh Sales . Show notes Elijah’s podcast Versecraft Gwen Harwood Harwood’s poem Prize-Giving   The Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy The Case for Metre and Rhyme: Part 1 & Part 2 Intro/outro: 7:30 report closing theme Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com More Elijah, more arguing: SLEERICKETS

“Anarchists have to write their own history.” Show notes The WAYWARD FORWARD exhibition Collective Effort Press Π.O.’s books include 24 Hours , Fitzroy: the biography & Heide Sandy Caldow Peter Murphy Victoria Perin Jas Duke   Thalia Fitzrot 925   The Third World Bookshop The Source and Whole Earth Bookstore Readings Robert Rooney Nicholas Zurbrugg   Off the Re...

Convalescence correspondence. Show notes Causeway (2022) Ep 215. The collapsing building Ep 219. This is scripture Liam Ferney’s article ‘I wrote this one and I know it ain’t great’: The Disruptive Poetry of Songwriting Lucinda Williams’ article on Frank Stanford Ep 42. Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford Sarah Holland-Batt’s books Aria & The Jaguar Ep 203. with Sarah Holland-Batt...

Matthew Buckley Smith returns to talk about The Mountain Goats . Show notes Playlist for this episode The Last Waltz (1978) New Yorker interview: John Darnielle Wants to Tell You a Story Wolf in White Van Universal Harvester Matthew’s show SLEERICKETS

It’s just like the Oscars! Maggie Ball’s books include her new collection Bobish Puncher & Wattmann The Compulsive Reader ModPo I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein Green Light by Kenneth Fearing Anupama Pilbrow Moon Wrasse by Willo Drummond Ep 198. with Felicity Plunkett Like To The Lark by Stuart Barnes The Montreal International Poetry Prize The Newc...

I’ve got 500 in twenties… Show notes The Swimmer by John Cheever The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lange City Middle by The National Voss by Patrick White Gerard Manley Hopkins To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall by John Keats I Thought You Were a Poet by Joshua Mehigan If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein As opera , with drums and remixed (and with...

“What is the thing that is blocking the person from engaging with the work itself?” Show notes Mindy Gill’s article Till ‘real voices’ wake us, and we drown: The mire of identity politics Sarah Holland-Batt That conversation about Audre Lorde is on SLEERICKETS The Sweatshop anthology Racism and Mindy’s review Jaya Savige The Boat by Nam Le My review of Writing to the Wire i...

I heart Canberra. For anyone who ever hung out at Impact without ever buying anything, caught the 333 to Civic instead of going to school, met a friend at the Goon Bag, kissed someone in the Woden bus interchange, drove up Mount Ainslie on a Saturday night, rode a shopping trolley down the Dickson stormwater drain, or had their best party ever in someone’s mum’s kitchen. Thank you Mira...

“I just persisted.” Show notes Stephen Edgar Where the Trees Were Lost in the Foreground Stephen’s new and selected The Strangest Place won the 2021 PM’s literary award for poetry Joshua Mehigan 18 Poems by Dylan Thomas Once again, A. D. Hope Gwen Harwood Clive James Phillip Hodgins Anthony Hecht Quadrant (wow.) Stephen’s poems Man on the Moon and Mind out of Matter M...

“Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey…” Show notes Look at all these straightforward interviews you could listen to! In Our Time, John Donne SLEERICKETS The one about fury The Close Readings podcast Just the romance section of Mills & Boon Various Sappho 130s Holy Sonnet 14 by Donne I’m very into you: Corr...

A different take on the Aussie renaissance. Paul Kane’s book Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity Judith Wright Gwen Harwood Paul is awarded the Order of Australia A. D. Hope   Les Murray John Kinsella Ali Alizadeh interviews Paul Kane Phillip Hodgins Martin Duwell reviews Paul Kane’s A Slant of Light Richard Howard Elizabeth Bishop Mark Strand Vincent Buckley A Passing B...

Emails! Fame, errors, legacy, glamour. Once again, The Lyre in the Pawnshop by Fay Zwicky Jan Zwicky You Must Believe in Spring by Bill Evans Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux Ken Bolton Ep 209. Funny ha ha Robert Adamson’s poems for Joanne Kyger The New American Poetry edited by Donald Allen (imagine if it was edited by Donald Hall though!) Essential Gossip: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and...

Come on, boffins! …show notes?! The Barron Field Experience  is Justin Clemens , Adam Bartlett & Bryan Cooke Plato loves the drama Justin Clemens’ new book A Foul Wind Michel de Certeau   John Forbes , one-liner queen Francis Bacon’s idea of The Great Instauration Poetry readings Forms of rot The State Perpetual reform   Tech bros The new Tesla has wipers   My previou...

“And who are you here with tonight?” Show notes SLEERICKETS Horace chat Judith Lucy vs Men Close Readings Live: The Waste Land The Jindyworobaks A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur News of the Sun by Rex Ingamells Yarra Cottage Books in Warrandyte A D Hope The Malley Hoax Terra Australis by James McAuley In The Park by Gwen Harwood Municipal Gum by Oodgeroo Noon...

Wagging with the Westralians. Show notes Lucy Dougan’s books Monster Field , The Guardians & White Clay Giramondo Publishing Andrea Arnold Wasp (2003) Fish Tank (2009) American Honey (2016) Wuthering Heights (2011) Spawn (1997) Barbara Pym Fay Zwicky Crawling Across Tram Tracks: Extracts from Volumes 5 & 6 of Fay Zwicky’s Journal ‘I Am a Chthonic Poet’: Fay Zwicky and the Writing under the...

Hang on, I’m telling a story. To recap: I like Philip’s poems All hail Queen Joan Do not sign up for Letterboxd under any circumstances Yes I watched Showgirls (1995) You Don’t Nomi (2019) is pretty good Jan Zwicky’s Lyric Philosophy sounds like a smart book I’ve never read any Robert Bly I mispronounced Tomas Tranströmer (I also said “similar” when I mean...

Rabbit, where’d you put the keys, girl? Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com A Primer of English Versification by James McAuley Joshua Mehigan The White Lotus theme song Mascara Literary Review To the Bramble and the Briar: Poems by Steve Scafidi Ep 197. on Fury The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt Jan Zwicky The Lyre in the Pawnshop by Fay Zwicky Derek DelGaudio’s In &am...

“It seemed like such a far-fetched notion that I could make something of myself as an artist…” Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com Good poetry podcasts Versecraft and Close Readings (and SLEERICKETS , of course) Sweatshop Literacy Movement Another Australia edited by Winnie Dunn (Affirm Press, 2022) L-FRESH the Lion Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar Does...

“I’m young and strong and nothing can touch me!” Show notes Berryman by W. S. Merwin Ep 202. Who makes the poem? What Pragmatism Means by William James Matt interviews Matthew Freckles on the Face of California  by Halsey Trash, Art and the Movies by Pauline Kael The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) Dark Victory (1939) The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling The lyre i...

Skepticism, change, and poems from Long Bay Gaol. Show notes Sarah Holland-Batt’s collections The Jaguar , The Hazards & Aria Fishing for Lightning Michael Massey Robinson My episode about poet laureates Australians all, let us read verse  by Sarah Holland-Batt Les Murray Floral Tribute by Simon Armitage Black Inc.s’ Best Australian Poems The Royal Commission into Aged Care Qu...

And who really pulled the trigger on JFK? Hey, come see me at Lit Balm this weekend (5pm Saturday US East Coast time/9am Sunday Australian East Coast time). K Post Malone Migos Al Filreis Joshua Mehigan Sociological institutionalism Toscanini Whiplash Aidan Coleman in my ep on John Forbes Bean Spasms by Ted Berrigan Billy Collins The Malley hoax Freckles on the Face of California by Halsey, who wo...

I need to go water my plant now. Starter episodes: Tracy Ryan , Antonia Pont , Peak Poetry , Thuy On Sister podcast SLEERICKETS Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino Googlecholia by Michael Farrell Vincent Buckley Brunswick Secondhand Books I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadija Queen Walter Mosley My conversation with James Jiang French Exit (2020) Peter St...