Author: PoetrySays

‘…& said quietly, ‘Sir, sir’ / & heroin let him leave the room.’

With thanks to Ken, Lou, Alan, Ben, Aidan, K, Cameron, Liam, Matthew & Eleanor.

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• 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 the LRB podcast: Flaubert at Two Hundred
• Keats’ Endymion
• Louise Carter
• Alan Wearne
• Ben Michell’s skateboard shop
• Gig Ryan
• Death, an Ode
• A. E. Housman
• Kent St
• Matthew Buckley Smith makes the podcast SLEERICKETS
• Forbes’ Collected Poems
• Aubade by Philip Larkin
• Apophasis
• Negative capability
• James Wright
• Michael Dransfield
• Aidan Coleman
• Pam Brown
• Liam Ferney
• Famously non-drug guy K
• Cameron Clark
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• ground zero by Michael Dransfield
• Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Erik Jensen
• Eleanor’s 2022 Sealey Challenge videos!
• My mate Stu wrote the outro. Thanks, Stu.

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‘it’s fun to take speed / & stay up all night…’

With thanks to Eleanor, Lou & Liam.

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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”
• Eleanor (7:34)
• Jericho Brown
• The Gifts of John Forbes by Kath Kenny
• Post It by Gig Ryan
• Forbes’ Collected Poems
• Louise Carter
• Luke Davies
• Maze Bright by Jaya Savige
• Liam Ferney
• HEAT
• Golden Bowl Books
• The Oxford book of modern Australian verse edited by Peter Porter
• Readings
• Fix by Michael Dransfield
• Candy by Luke Davies
• My interview with Tracy Ryan
• Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
• sick leave
• Gareth Morgan’s Dear Eileen,
• Harry Reid
• Celebrity Googlebox Australia
• Rrose Selavy (dammit, it’s rose c’est la vie)

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Email: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
This podcast but backwards and in heels: SLEERICKETS

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“I don’t believe rules are absolute.”

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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: Rails by Bing and Ruth

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Email: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
This podcast in a convex mirror: SLEERICKETS

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Contains adult themes.

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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 by Sean Bonney
• The ordinary poem
• Room for More by Sanjena Sathian
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• The Rise of Fictionality by Catherine Gallagher
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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Email: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
Evil twin podcast: SLEERICKETS

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The black swan of trespass is coming for us all.

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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
• Kahlil Gibran
• Tank Girl
• A Shropshire Lad 12: When I watch the living meet
• Matthew’s podcast is SLEERICKETS. It’s fun.

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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 Powell
• Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days by Ben Okri
• Disturbing Vanity Fair article Free Radicals by James Pogue
• Curtis Yarvin, poet
• Yarvin’s poems Christmas Poem and The Desert
• The Passage Prize
• Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams

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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 Behind The Dolphin by Thomas Mallon
• One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
• Music: Have Here by Archipelago

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“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
• Ariana Reines
• Forever Mag
• Gareth’s review of Lucy Van’s The Open
• Gareth’s review of Petra White’s Cities
• Tim Wright’s Suns
• Toby Fitch’s Moons
• Nangs

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“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.)
• To My Brother by Siegfried Sassoon
• Reaching for the Moon
• Set Fire to the Stars
• And death shall have no dominion by Dylan Thomas
• SLEERICKETS Ep 27 in which MBS & I say insightful things about the movie Paterson
• How Fame Fed on Edna St Vincent Millay by Maggie Doherty
• A step away from them by Frank O’Hara
• What if Gwen Harwood but it’s Marriage Story crossed with Acute Misfortune
• Ep 92. with Adam Ford
• Adam’s books The Third Fruit is a Bird & others

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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 interview with Nicholas for Southerly Poets in Cars
• Ep 133. with Justin Clemens
• Nicholas’ Queensland Poetry Festival panels and his interview on 3CR
• Ben Okri’s Guardian article Artists must confront the climate crisis
• Maggie Nelson’s book Women, the New York School and Other True Abstractions
• Martin Johnston’s The Typewriter Considered as a Bee-Trap
• Laurie Duggan’s Mangroves
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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