Just before New Year’s I got to meet up with Shastra Deo in Brisbane. She spoke about expectation, regret, her award-winning collection The Agonist, how that book continues to follow her, and the weird, frustrating tension between poetry and the industry around it.
Show notes
- Shastra’s interview with Terri Ann Quan Sing for Hello Poet
- Eileen Chong
- Evelyn Araluen’s Dream Sequence piece As We Know It
- Shastra’s poem गुम; or, Lexical Gaps
- Shastra’s interview with Elena Gomez for Liminal & my interview with Elena
- Mindy Gill
- Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today & my interview with editor Alison Whittaker
- The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
- Plath’s bee poems
- Shastra’s poem I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
- Jill Jones
- Liam Ferney
- Justin Clemens
- Bronwyn Lea
- Sharon Olds’ poem I Go Back to May 1937
- Felicity Plunkett’s book Vanishing Point
- Tegan Webb
- Rory Green
- Zenobia Frost’s poem Meditation on the Body
- Wilfred Owen’s Duce Et Decorum Est
- Rae White’s Twine poem How to Haunt
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