PoetrySays – Poetry Says

Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

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

Show notes

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?

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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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Ep 287. Live Poets Society

Giving the kids their boring magic.

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Jonathan Farmer

Matthew Buckley Smith

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Bishop

Shane McCrae

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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.

Show notes

Once again, the crimson rosella

The Maxx

Old Gregg

Eat Carpet

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.

Show notes

Martin Duwell

Australian Poetry Review

Jacket interview: Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher

Martin’s review of David Brooks’ New and Selected

William Logan

Dipped in Vitriol edited by Nicholas Parsons

No Turn Unstoned edited by Diana Rigg

Australian Literary Studies Journal

Antipodes

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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