Poetry Says

Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity

Tending the thousand flowers.

Show notes

Australian Poetry Review

Jacket interview: Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher

Martin’s review of David Brooks’ New and Selected

Dipped in Vitriol edited by Nicholas Parsons

No Turn Unstoned edited by Diana Rigg

Vincent Buckley

A. D. (Alec) Hope

Australian Literary Studies Journal

A Possible Contemporary Poetry: Interviews with thirteen poets from The New Australian Poetry by Martin Duwell

John Tranter’s The New Australian Poetry

Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry 1945-1960

Letters to Live Poets (I) by Bruce Beaver

Poetry Australia edited by Grace Perry

Martin’s review of The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945

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Ep 284. Louise Carter and the Gilded Door

“No quitting.”

Show notes

Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8

Lou’s poems Marrickville and Windows

Lou’s book Golden Repair

Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies

Ali Cobby Eckermann

Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark

Summer by Martin Harrison

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Ep 283. Tool time

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

To Marylin Manson by Matthew Buckley Smith

Phoenix Rising (2022)

Amy (2015)

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers

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Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time

On tour in Oz!

Show notes

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis

Michael Farrell

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

Georgic by Kate Liley

Go Figure by Rae Armantrout

Rae’s poems The Way and Travelling through the Yard

Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Rae interviewed in BOMB by Ben Lerner

Language poetry

Rae’s Poetry Foundation profile

Kelly Writers House

Anselm Berrigan

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Ep 281. David Brooks returns

“I seem to be a little bit less burdened by myself.”

Show notes

The Poetry Detective

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

Rilke’s Duino Elegies

The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

Ezra Pound’s Cantos

The Penguin Book of Chinese Poetry

The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets

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Ep 280. It started recreational

…ended kinda medical.

Show notes

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 You Have Anything Less Domestic? by Emilie Collyer

Eps 276 & 279 on Ania Walwicz

Jonathan Farmer

Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines

Izzy Roberts-Orr

Ep 278. A good start (on John Tranter)

Search Engine: Does anyone actually like their job?

The Hold Steady (w/ bonus John Berryman content)

In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (2022)

The Trouble with Friends by Weike Wang

The Uneasy Friendship of Poets by Matthew Buckley Smith

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Ep 279. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt. 2

“…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

Nice Work If You Can Get It by Robert Dessaix

My conversations with Mindy Gill, Shastra Deo, pi o, and Winnie Dunn

Andy Carruthers

Katherine FitzHywel

Matthew Buckley Smith

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Ep 278. A good start

John Tranter vs. Tennessee Williams cage match.

Show notes

Ep 277. with George Mouratidis

SLEERICKETS secret show

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

Essential Gossip: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics by Brendan Casey

The Catastrophe of Success by Tennessee Williams

The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing

Jacket Magazine

Intricacies of aliveness: A personal tribute to John Tranter (1943-2023) by Kate Lilley

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Two Tranter sonnets

69.

Delineate the landscape where you
grew up. That’s an acceptable start.
But in the droll town where I was born
no one every used the word ‘landscape’,
nor the concept, nor the word ‘nor,’ ever.
I’m being honest, that’s
a good start, eh? Grow up,
who gives a fuck about a ‘good start’,

I went to college like a privilege
and learnt to wield a metaphor in each hand
and got a kiss on the arse for being good.
Who made a million? The Student Prince?
Who made a profit from a lasting work of art?
Who was improved by the perfect landscape?

13.

FAMOUS POET JETS HOME TO USE!
How lucky to live in America, where
supermarkets stock up heavily on writers!
Thinking of the famous poets floating home
to that luxurious and splendid place
inhabited by living legends like an old movie
you blush with a sudden flush of Romanticism
and your false teeth chatter and shake loose!

How it spoils the magic! In America no writers
have false teeth, they are too beautiful!
Imagine meeting Duncan in your laundromat –
in America in happens all the time – you say
Hi, Robert! – and your teeth fall out!
And you can’t write a poem about that!

Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines

On not having to deal with arseholes or put up with bullshit.

George Mouratidis is published by Soul Bay Press

Ep 196. with James Jiang

Liminal Magazine

Sticky Institute

Vale Red Wheelbarrow Books

The Wheeler Centre

William Carlos Williams

Lionel Trilling

George’s article Does Mental Illness Beget Great Poetry?

William S. Burroughs

Kenneth Rexroth

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

City Lights Bookstore

Diane Di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters & Loba

Kate Middleton’s Television

Izzy Roberts-Orr

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