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, … Continue reading "Ep 251. The Poet Eaters"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 250. A preference for abandon"

(And at Christmas you tell the truth.) You’re the best, John! Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister 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 … Continue reading "Ep 248. You"

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.comSister 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, … Continue reading "Ep 246. Desperate reassessment"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 245. Joel Deane: Making art in Sparta"

“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 … Continue reading "Ep 244. Tradition and the Individual Snakebite"

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! … Continue reading "Ep 243. Pigs in the ocean"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 242. Joshua Mehigan: Otherness people"