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
SLEERICKETS Ep 13: Against Hope
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
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
Nick Cave’s Revised Rules for Men in The Atlantic
Last Stop Larrimah (2023)
Acute Misfortune by Erik Jensen
Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
Wolf Creek (2005)
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
Not Telling by 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
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Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence
Pass the butter.
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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
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Ep 287. Live Poets Society
Giving the kids their boring magic.
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Church Going by Philip Larkin
Why Poetry is Making a Comeback in Schools on Mindshift/KQED
Ode to Kool-Aid by Marcus Jackson
In Praise of Okra by January Gill O’Neil
Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke
The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop
The Orange by Wendy Cope
Molly’s Game (2017)
Ep 128. Oscar-worthy poems (on how movies portray poetry teachers)
the dead poets society hangover cure project
Spring and Fall (not “Margaret”) by Gerard Manley Hopkins (not Donne)
Margaret (2011)
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Ep 286. The wrong crowd
Storytime: I was a teenage Maxx fan.
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Once again, the crimson rosella
Ep 267. On nemeses
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) monologue
Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat
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Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity
Tending the thousand flowers.
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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
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.”
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Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8
Lou’s poems Marrickville and Windows
Lou’s book Golden Repair
Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark
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