Starter episodes

A rough guide to the Poetry Says extended universe.

Names you know
Conversations with people you’ve heard of.

Ep 282. Rae Armantrout

Ep 239. Eileen Myles

Ep 228. Ken Bolton

Ep 203. Sarah Holland-Batt

Ep 175. Pam Brown

Ep 170. Kent MacCarter

Ep 145. John Kinsella

Ep 120. Ellen van Neerven

Ep 118. Alison Whittaker

Ep 115. Michael Farrell

Ep 106. David Brooks

Ep 78. Lisa Gorton

Ep 42. Alan Wearne

Friends of the show
Sisters, brothers, silent co-producers.

Ep 284. Louise Carter and the gilded door.

Ep 230. Matt Wall is sick of being angry.

Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov: Alice attempts Leigh Sales, lands at Graham Norton.

Ep 219. This is scripture: Matthew Buckley Smith on The Mountain Goats.

Ep 152. Nonsense and crying: K & I exchange late-lockdown voice notes.

One poem for a month
Recording a little every day on a single poem.

Ep 279. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt 2

Ep 276. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt 1

Ep 237. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 2

Ep 235. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 1

Ep 191. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 2

Ep 190. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 1

Alice works through something
Slightly too personal episodes.

Ep 265. Antarctica

Ep 215. The collapsing building

Ep 154. The big sleep

Decent early eps
From before I got a better mic.

Ep 134. Justin Clemens on almost everything.

Ep 128. Oscar-worthy poems: on how movies treat the teaching of poetry.

Ep 122. Antonia Pont on the imprecision of pessimism.

Ep 92. Adam Ford invites two crazy people into his home.

Ep 88. Joel Deane on writing and not writing.

Ep 69. Ern Malley’s birthday bash. Nice.

Ep 51. Toby Fitch on editing Overland.

Ep 35. Corey Wakeling on Michael Farrell.