Some other beginning’s end.
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Ep 299. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 2
Paradise Lost: Books VII-XII.
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Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton with Professor John Rogers
Men and their Boring Arguments by Wendy Cope
An excerpt from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Pajama Quotient by Linda Gregerson
Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence
Ep 290. Australian Gothic
Some marginalia and a margin butterfly!
SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy?
Gender is the extent we go to in order to be loved by D. Perez-McVie
Ep 292. The silly season
The University of Melbourne endowment is approx. AU$1.287 billion
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
Songs & clips from this and last episode
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Ep 298. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 1
Paradise Lost: Books I-VI.
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Ep 234. Not reading My Life
Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton
Ep 265. The Internet is for poems
SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy?
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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
The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Awards
BigCi (the place with the magnetic walls)
Matthew reads Bad Boys for Life on Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism
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Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics
Against the myth of the garret.
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Love Streams (1984)
A Plague of Poets by C. D. Wright
The legendary La Mama Theatre
My Tongue Is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest
Selections from Keats’ letters
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott
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 Collected Poems edited and introduced by Toby Davidson
More resources on the Webb centenary: more publications and live readings to come!
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
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
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
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
Limerence by Steven Leyva
Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin
My poems in New Verse Review
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Ep 293. Global overshare
Is the cake a metaphor?
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Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker
The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)
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Ep 292. The silly season
The road not taken looks real good now.
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D. Perez-McVie’s Gender Is The Extent We Go To In Order To Be Loved
Siân Vate’s feels right
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
Voss by Patrick White
Wake in Fright (1971)
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland by Ross Gibson
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
TA RA RA by Urusula Robinson-Shaw
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Ep 291. Bathroom seashells
Poets as adults.
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The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair by Lauren Michele Jackson
How America Embraced Gender War by Jia Tolentino
Poetry Unbound’s post Art and coalition
Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots and his post on Wendell Berry’s 1993 I
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Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon
Trashy yoga doco Breath of Fire
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