Poetry Says

A completely normal, acceptable human emotion.

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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 Jackson’s Gravidity and Parity
Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today edited by Alison Whittaker
The Fury of Abandonment by Anne Sexton
Just Like You Imagined by Nine Inch Nails
Music/samples: 31 Ghosts IV by Nine Inch Nails

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‘There’s something fraught about even the most informal encounters…’

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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 (Wordsworth)
Art historian Charles Harrison
The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival, 1974-1984
by Fay Zwicky
Go to Archives Fine Books before James buys all the good stuff
Ep 194. on teachers
The Barron Field Experience (with Justin, Adam & Brian.)
Writing Australian Unsettlement by Michael Farrell
Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie letter
Eve-Song by Dame Mary Gilmore
Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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What is a ratbag?

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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 Forbes Pt 1 & Pt 2
Liam Ferney
Michael Farrell
Gig Ryan
Tim Wright’s Suns
Melinda Bufton
Ella O’Keefe
Hardie Grant
Penguin Random House
The Wheeler Centre
Cobargo
“TOIL” = Time Off In Lieu
Intro/Outro: Work While You’re Sleeping by Mount Carmel

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Shock: I was (and am) a teacher’s pet.

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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.

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Eleanor & I get all judgey.

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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 You? (Taylor Swift vs. Nine Inch Nails)

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“The space I felt between me and the world I was always filling with journalism. Poetry utterly collapsed that space.”

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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: 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
• Come to me my melancholy baby by Kate Jennings
• Jane Hirshfield
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• While Standing in Line For Death and The Book of Frank by CAConrad
• The Argonauts and Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• Byron Writer’s Festival
• Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
• John Nixon
• “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”— William Carlos Williams
• Al Filreis and PoemTalk
• Krissy Kneen

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‘…& 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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“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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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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