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Friday arvo in the park. Show notes A Walk in Kensington Gardens by Dorothy Porter Silent co-producer K Elizabeth Morgan House Antonia Pont Dorothy Porter’s The Bee Hut Ep 179. Solace & Trash Cary Tennis: All the practice you get makes you better David Ireland Brendan Casey & the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy Bruce Beaver (“your Manly lines”) Ram Dass Outro: The Mo...

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” Show notes The Monthly’s culture issue Strength to strength by Alison Croggan The ideal reader by Gerald Murnane Australians all, let us read verse by Sarah Holland-Batt Les Murray Les Murray in conversation at UTS Kenneth Slessor Ep 42. with Alan Wearne Burton Raffel Horace’s Ode I, 1 Slessor’s poems A...

Gatekeepers, puff pieces, labour and care. Show notes If I Had a Gun by Gig Ryan Felicity Plunkett’s books Vanishing Point & A Kinder Sea Ep. 196 with James Jiang University of Queensland Press David Malouf Nathan Shepherdson The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr Exactly As I Am by Rae White Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter Stuart Barnes Beatrice Deloitte Davis Jessica Wilkinson Poetry on the Move & QPF...

A completely normal, acceptable human emotion. Show notes Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence Poems That Make Grown Women Cry The Poetry Pharmacy Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Jennifer Compton SLEERICKETS Ep 7: My love is like a red, red grawlix To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire by Steve Scafidi Canto IX from Dante’s Inferno Ep 195. with Harry Reid Eleanor Jack...

‘There’s something fraught about even the most informal encounters…’ Show notes James Jiang’s article in the ABR : Blurb Praise and Hot Takes Gareth Morgan’s review of Petra White’s Cities Ben Etherington’s article The Poet Tasters Ep 148. with Loki Liddle The inimitable Martin Duwell Ep 78. with Lisa Gorton Fostered alike by beauty and by fear (Word...

What is a ratbag? Show notes Harry Reid’s full-length collection Leave Me Alone & chapbook the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend sick leave , co-directed by Harry, Gareth Morgan & Ursula Robinson-Shaw Matthew’s intro Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen Blakwork by Alison Whittaker Melody Paloma Bella Li RATBAG editorial by Duncan Hose John Forbes & my month with F...

Shock: I was (and am) a teacher’s pet. Show notes Recorded on the 10-year anniversary of ModPo , which is taught by Al Filreis & his team. Delmore Schwartz Kenneth Koch: ‘I Like Writing’ by Bill Zavatsky A Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead by Kenneth Koch Pogo Also if you want to watch over two hours of Trapdoor you can do that here . Email: poetrysayspo...

Eleanor & I get all judgey. Show notes Eleanor’s Forward Prize reviews Scattered Snows to the North by Carl Phillips I’m Shouting I LOVED YOUR DAD at my Brother’s Cat by Cecelia Knapp Pollen by Clare Pollard Dog on a British Airways Airbus 319-100 by Louisa Campbell Up Late by Nick Laird Evelyn Araluen’s Stella Prize acceptance speech Jacques Roubaud Outro: DJ Kal – What Hand Feeds...

“The space I felt between me and the world I was always filling with journalism. Poetry utterly collapsed that space.” Show notes Erik Jensen Acute Misfortune (Black Inc. 2014) and the film I said the sea was folded (Black Inc. 2021) On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen (Black Inc. 2017) The Saturday Paper Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Balcony by David Brooks How to End a Story: Diaries...

‘…& said quietly, ‘Sir, sir’ / & heroin let him leave the room.’ With thanks to Ken, Lou, Alan, Ben, Aidan, K, Cameron, Liam, Matthew & Eleanor. Speed, a Pastoral by John Forbes Ken Bolton The Poetry of John Forbes by Ken Bolton That interview with David Brooks John Keats Ode to a Nightingale Gustave Flaubert Thinking of Madame Bovary by Jane Kenyon Julian Barnes on t...

‘it’s fun to take speed / & stay up all night…’ With thanks to Eleanor, Lou & Liam. Show notes the sealey challenge Red Room’s Poetry Month John Forbes Speed, a Pastoral Carlton Gardens Poetry Foundation’s definition of the pastoral Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella “A land of sweeping plains...

“I don’t believe rules are absolute.” Show notes Tracy Ryan’s books include Scar Revision , Rose Interior & The Argument Judith Wright Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich Prisoner Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella Jennifer Strauss Barn Owl by Gwen Harwood Self Publishing by Ouyang Yu The Rose Interior by Rainer Maria Rilke Intro/outro:&...

Contains adult themes . Show notes Ursula Robinson-Shaw’s chapbooks Noonday and YEARN MALLEY sick leave Dissociating the Novel (review of New Animal by Ella Baxter ) Where Do We Go From Nowhere? (review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle) Fleabag Nanette Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts On Heteropessimism by Asa Seresin Mike Crumplar The Garret podcast Melody Paloma Our Death...

The black swan of trespass is coming for us all. Show notes Missy Elliott’s Under Construction Peak oil The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Margot Robbie in The Big Short Decoder Ring: The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen on Instapoets Ep 134. Justin Clemens on Amanda Gorman and many other things Bronwyn Lea’s article Poetry bestsellers and other oxymorons...

Is poetry ever propaganda? Show notes “And I have always felt sorry for people who didn’t grow up next to an ocean, who couldn’t find a similar kind of privacy, the privacy of this interval.” — Lucy Van , The Open Ep 181. Midwinter Day Joshua Mehigan Matthew makes the podcast Sleerickets (it’s very good) Ep 183. Poets on film Before Night Falls Ep. 182. with Nicholas...

Or, When Robert met Lizzy. (With yet more thanks to K.) Show notes Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton Randall Jarrell At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop Turning Pain Into Art by Meghan O’Rourke Marriage, Betrayal and the Letters Be...

“We live in such a strange world. It’s weird to create monuments to it.” Gareth Morgan’s books Dear Eileen and When a Punk Becomes a Spunk sick leave Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy Dan Tout’s article Neither Nationalists nor Universalists: Rex Ingamells and the Jindyworobaks Obscurity in Poetry — A Spectrum by Geoff Page The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington...

“You must be a poet. You talk funny.” When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon Master of Crying Terence Davies The Veleta (which I only do when pressed) The rogerebert.com review of Benediction SMH review: Terence Davies calls Benediction his best movie. I beg to differ (I did not mention this earlier. This is what happens when you make fun of other people’s editing....

On tour in Australia from Finland, Nicholas Powell walks me through his new book, Trap Landscape . Joan Fleming’s launch Reagan Sova’s book trailer Ep 42. with Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford SLEERICKETS Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos My appearance on The Imposter Syndrome Club podcast Rae Armantrout’s poem Our Days Archives Fine Books Ep 155. with Luke Beesley and Luke’s intervi...

Recorded on Tuesday June 21, 2022. ( More on that .) Show notes Bernadette Mayer Midwinter Day Mayer, Al & the gang talking about 19th century high school poetry Mayer’s writing experiments Commonplace Episode 15: Bernadette Mayer Ted Berrigan Alice Notley Exceptionally entertaining poetry podcast SLEERICKETS now has cool t-shirts (and a secret show )

No really. Why do we live here? Show notes Lucy’s collection The Open Gareth Morgan’s review Shitheads: well are we doing this? Lucy’s interview for the NGV’s Triennial Voices Bella Li George Mouratidis Ocean Vuong Ep 174. Eleanor vs. The Ocean Vuong Phenomenon Figures , Lucy’s project with Laila Sakini The Third Thing by Donald Hall Nick Kyrgios Wangi Falls Answered...

Leave poetry alone! Show notes John Berryman Dream Song 14 & Berryman’s reading in Dublin in 1967 Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring Poetry Unbound The Slowdown The Poetry Society Windows by Louise Carter Ep 122. Antonia Pont: Pessimism is very imprecise Olio by Tyehimba Jess Dream Song 36 & Berryman’s reading (less drunk?)

Kate Middleton returns to talk about her role as Island’s poetry editor. Plus, some unsolicited advice. Show notes Iowa Writers’ Workshop Fiona Wright The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize Toby Fitch Owen Barfield Linda Gregerson Journals! Meanjin , Overland , Rabbit , Australian Book Review SLEERICKETS Ep. 14: M*****F***** of the Arts Robert Lowell on seals (honestly v. cool animals) Music: L...

90210. Dickens. Buffy. Henry James. Show notes Kate Middleton’s books Fire Season , Ephemeral Waters & Passage A poem from Television Luke Perry ‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles by Van Badham Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow’s podcast Call Your Girlfriend Scott Speedman Sarah Manguso Poets on Teaching by Joshua Marie Wilkinson Hoa Nguyen Teaching...

Autumn Royal on writing poems in Roxby Downs, sessional teaching from a hot desk, appearing suss at art galleries, reality eclipsing her first book, and “grittiness”. Show notes Snake Story by Dorothy Porter Autumn’s collection She Woke & Rose Bernadette Mayer’s The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty Lacan on Death Lindsay Tuggle’s Calenture Auden’s I...