Poetry Says

Ep 297. Everything I know about publishing poetry

People like poems about bees.

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Interviews with Kent McCarter (Cordite), Jess Wilkinson (Rabbit), Kate Middleton (Island), Toby Fitch (Overland), Terri-ann White (Upswell), and Sarah Holland-Batt (the laureateship)

Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry edited by Bonny Cassidy & Jess Wilkinson

Michael Farrell

Flash Cove

The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Awards

Varuna

Bundanon

BigCi (the place with the magnetic walls)

Matthew Buckley Smith

Elijah Blumov

New Verse Review

Matthew reads Bad Boys for Life on Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism

Louise Carter

Jonathan Farmer

Chill Subs

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Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics

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 Keats’ letters

Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott

Yvor Winters

Elijah’s interview with Timothy Steele

To Yvor Winters, 1955 by Thom Gunn

On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks

The Wild One (1953)

On the Move by Thom Gunn

Insomniac City by Bill Hayes

Lament by Thom Gunn

Suzemebachi no thank you

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Ep 295. The Webb Moment

Your favourite poet’s favourite poet.

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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

A Death at Winson Green by Francis Webb

Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell

Damaged Men: The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart by Michael Ackland

Five Days Old (published here in The Bulletin)

Toby’s ABR tribute essay The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb

Toby’s book Christian Mysticism in Australian Poetry

Terri-ann White

Toby discusses Webb on the To The Lighthouse podcast

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Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

“I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions.”

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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 Magazine December 2024 & January/February 2025

Rabbit 39: Mutiny & 40: Extinction

Overland

Tess Ritchie

A Girl and Her Fireplace by Megan Denton

A Convolution of Astral Forces by Erika Meitner

Filling Station by Elizabeth Bishop

The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley

Christopher Brennan

Limerence by Steven Leyva

Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin

My poems in New Verse Review

Tar River Poetry

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Ep 293. Global overshare

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

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Ep 292. The silly season

The road not taken looks real good now.

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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 Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation by Leanne Ogasawara

A Quiet Sorcery by Ovidian

i carry your heart with me i carry it in by e e cummings

Ep 290. Australian Gothic

Adam Ford

Charles Sturt

Voss by Patrick White

Alone Australia

Wake in Fright (1971)

Seven Versions of an Australian Badland by Ross Gibson

Twin Peaks

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Bob Katter

Metropole by Ken Bolton

Ep 181. on Midwinter Day

Ep 284. with Louise Carter

HEAT

TA RA RA by Urusula Robinson-Shaw

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Ep 291. Bathroom seashells

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 Berry’s 1993 I

Evan Williams

SLEERICKETS Ep 13: Against Hope

Randell Jarrell’s 90 North

Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon

Trashy yoga doco Breath of Fire

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Ep 290. Australian Gothic

“I am on an aggrieved island…”

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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 Porter

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Candy: A novel of love and addiction by Luke Davies

Waltzing Matilda

Sweet William by Ern Malley

The Glass Canoe, A Woman of the Future & The Chantic Bird by David Ireland

Rosemary Creswell reviews A Woman of the Future

Helen Garner’s Three Acres More or Less is collected in True Stories

The laughing kookaburra

Nick Cave’s Revised Rules for Men in The Atlantic

Last Stop Larrimah (2023)

Acute Misfortune by Erik Jensen

Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor

The Port Arthur massacre

Wolf Creek (2005)

Ivan Milat

Chopper on 60 minutes

Chopper (2000)

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Ep 289. Alpha Sandpit

The pirate’s life for me.

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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 Lehmann

Being Neighbours by Christine Churches

Jonathan Farmer’s review of Promises of Gold

Ep 285. with Martin Duwell

Ep 284. with Louise Carter

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Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence

Pass the butter.

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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

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