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Paradise Lost: Books VII-XII. Show notes Paradise Lost by John Milton Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton with Professor John Rogers Justin Clemens George Mouratidis Men and their Boring Arguments by Wendy Cope Elijah Blumov An excerpt from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Pajama Quotient by Linda Gregerson Jonathan Farmer Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence … Continue reading "Ep 299. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 2"

Paradise Lost: Books I-VI. Show notes Paradise Lost by John Milton Ep 234. Not reading My Life Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton Justin Clemens Ep 265. The Internet is for poems Northrop Frye SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy? Epode II by Horace That Spotify playlist Pyrrhics Spondees Songs & clips from this … Continue reading "Ep 298. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 1"

People like poems about bees. Show notes Interviews with Kent McCarter (Cordite), Jess Wilkinson (Rabbit), Kate Middleton (Island), Toby Fitch (Overland), Terri-ann White (Upswell), and Sarah Holland-Batt (the laureateship) Trello David Allen Jubilat Seizure David Brooks Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry edited by Bonny Cassidy & Jess Wilkinson Michael Farrell Flash Cove The Helen Anne Bell … Continue reading "Ep 297. Everything I know about publishing poetry"

Against the myth of the garret. Show notes Love Streams (1984) A Plague of Poets by C. D. Wright Ep 294. The American Ecstatic Christian Wiman SLEERICKETS Ep 180: AMA 2025 The legendary La Mama Theatre My Tongue Is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Bass Strait Vincent Buckley Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest Selections from … Continue reading "Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics"

Your favourite poet's favourite poet. Show notes Francis Webb Francis Webb Collected Poems edited and introduced by Toby Davidson More resources on the Webb centenary: more publications and live readings to come! Judith Wright Les Murray Gwen Harwood Callum Park Hospital for the Insane The Bulletin Douglas Stewart Angus & Robertson Norman Lindsay A Drum … Continue reading "Ep 295. The Webb Moment"

“I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions.” Show notes SLEERICKETS Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss praise song by Nate Marshall (link to Marshall's reading at the top) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman Anaphora Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats by Kaveh Akbar Poetry … Continue reading "Ep 294. The American Ecstatic"

Is the cake a metaphor? Show notes Episode playlist Ep 257. on love songs Ep 219. on The Mountain Goats Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) The Beatles: Get Back Made of Cocaine Vauxhall and I Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

The road not taken looks real good now. Show notes Send us your AMA questions! sleerickets[at]gmail.com Christmas beetles Flippys D. Perez-McVie's Gender Is The Extent We Go To In Order To Be Loved Slow Loris chapbooks Rabbit Poetry Siân Vate's feels right Ep 288. on Shikishi Isabella G. Mead A Room of One's Own: On … Continue reading "Ep 292. The silly season"

Poets as adults. Show notes Francis Webb The Saturday Paper The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair by Lauren Michele Jackson How America Embraced Gender War by Jia Tolentino Ep 254. with Antonia Pont Mr Bookman visits Seinfeld Substack Atticus Poetry Unbound's post Art and coalition On Being Devin Kelly's Ordinary Plots and his post on Wendell … Continue reading "Ep 291. Bathroom seashells"

“I am on an aggrieved island…” Show notes Voss by Patrick White Britannica's definition of the Gothic novel Penguin's definition of American Gothic literature Gerry Turcotte's definition of the Australian Gothic Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side by Emma Doolan The paper chase by Hal … Continue reading "Ep 290. Australian Gothic"

The pirate's life for me. Show notes Starter episodes! (Let me know if I forgot one you think I should include.) WFH (a rat bastard poem) by Harry Reid Women Don't Have Shadows Not Telling by Alison J Barton Ep 231. with Alison J Barton The Younger Australian Poets edited by Robert Gray & Geoffrey … Continue reading "Ep 289. Alpha Sandpit"

Pass the butter. Show notes Antonia! Princess Shikishi Emperor Go-Shirakawa The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite & Geoffrey Bownas String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi translated by Hiroaki Sato Japanese Death Poems edited by Yoel Hoffmann Tanka Basho The Tales of Genji    Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

Giving the kids their boring magic. Show notes Jonathan Farmer Matthew Buckley Smith Church Going by Philip Larkin Why Poetry is Making a Comeback in Schools on Mindshift/KQED Ode to Kool-Aid by Marcus Jackson In Praise of Okra by January Gill O'Neil Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth Bishop Shane McCrae Gabrielle Calvocoressi … Continue reading "Ep 287. Live Poets Society"

Storytime: I was a teenage Maxx fan. Show notes Once again, the crimson rosella The Maxx Old Gregg Eat Carpet Ep 267. On nemeses The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron's notes on crazymakers Anatomy of a Fall (2023) monologue Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS

Tending the thousand flowers. Show notes Martin Duwell Australian Poetry Review Jacket interview: Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher Martin's review of David Brooks' New and Selected William Logan Dipped in Vitriol edited by Nicholas Parsons No Turn Unstoned edited by Diana Rigg Patrick White James Jiang Vincent Buckley A. D. (Alec) Hope James … Continue reading "Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity"

“No quitting.” Show notes Louise Carter Ester Perel Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8 Lou's poems Marrickville and Windows Lou's book Golden Repair Helen Garner AWARD School Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies UTS Sappho Books Lyn Hejinian Ali Cobby Eckermann pi o Ivor Indyk Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark … Continue reading "Ep 284. Louise Carter and the Gilded Door"

Or, More Lasting Than Monsters. Show notes Ep 265. The Internet is for poems Matthew Buckley Smith The Silver Swan by Gwen Harwood New Verse Review Search Engine: What Do Trigger Warnings Actually Do? Ep 222. with Elijah on Harwood My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Octavia Butler To Marylin Manson by Matthew Buckley Smith Phoenix Rising … Continue reading "Ep 283. Tool time"

On tour in Oz! Show notes Rae Armantrout Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis Michael Farrell In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound Georgic by Kate Liley Lionel Fogarty Go Figure by Rae Armantrout Rae's poems The Way and Travelling through the Yard Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford Pam … Continue reading "Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time"

“I seem to be a little bit less burdened by myself.” Show notes The Poetry Detective Ern Malley David Brooks' books include Walking to Point Clear, The Sons of Clovis, The Balcony, Animal Dreams, and The other side of daylight Ep 106 with David Maud Rilke's Duino Elegies The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell … Continue reading "Ep 281. David Brooks returns"

…ended kinda medical. Show notes Isi Unikowski Music and Mystery: Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career by Christian Wiman The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews Ep 273. Submit Versecraft: The Case for Poetic Patronage Search Engine: Genesis (on cryptocurrency) The Infant Vine by Isabella G. Mead Gravidity and Parity by Eleanor Jackson Do … Continue reading "Ep 280. It started recreational"

“…You shiver on a tram.” Episode(s) playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Part 1 of this episode Wilsons Promontory Crimson rosella A Woman's Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets edited by Jenny Digby The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets edited by Susan Hampton and Kate Llewellyn The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry Jonathan Farmer … Continue reading "Ep 279. Ania Walwicz's Australia pt. 2"

John Tranter vs. Tennessee Williams cage match. Show notes Ep 277. with George Mouratidis SLEERICKETS secret show John Tranter Tranter's collection Crying in Early Infancy Ted Berrigan's Sonnets The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter The two Tranter sonnets I talk about here Robert Adamson Robert Duncan Essential Gossip: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and … Continue reading "Ep 278. A good start"

On not having to deal with arseholes or put up with bullshit. George Mouratidis is published by Soul Bay Press Kalliope X Ep 273. Submit Ep 196. with James Jiang Meanjin Cordite Liminal Magazine Sticky Institute Thomastown Carlton North Brunswick John Waters CommSec  Vale Red Wheelbarrow Books The Wheeler Centre Allen Ginsberg William Carlos Williams … Continue reading "Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines"

“You big ugly…” Show notes Episode playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Venus Bay Surf diatom blooms (that brown stuff) Świdnica My Country by Dorothea Mackellar Countdown Peter Brock Molly Meldrum Slim Dusty How to End a Story by Helen Garner Murray Bail Peter Allen That Qantas ad The White … Continue reading "Ep 276. Ania Walwicz's Australia pt. 1"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 275. The blue smoke of the mind"

“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 … Continue reading "274. Affinities and attentions"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 273. Submit."

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 … Continue reading "Ep 272. Eva Birch: What's the tea?"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 271. Love again"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don't think I love poetry.”"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 269. Another ending"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk"

“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 … Continue reading "Ep 267. Writing for revenge"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 266. Poetry camp"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 265. The Internet is for poems"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 264. A poet of the future"

“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 Poetry … Continue reading "Ep 263. Water-dragon blues"

“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 … Continue reading "Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 261. Weird funemployment"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 260. Dom Symes: Trojan Horse of emotion"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 259. It means what it says"

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. Antarctica Yellow Notebook: Diaries … Continue reading "Ep 258. Grace Yee: I did not anticipate this"

“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 … Continue reading "Ep 257. Heartbreak Voltron"

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.comSister 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 … Continue reading "Ep 255. Loose Unit"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 254. Antonia Pont: Good for nothing"

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 … Continue reading "Ep 253. Stake night"

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.comSister 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, … 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"