Author: PoetrySays

What is a ratbag?

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Show notes

Harry Reid’s full-length collection Leave Me Alone & chapbook the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend
sick leave, co-directed by Harry, Gareth Morgan & Ursula Robinson-Shaw
Matthew’s intro
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
Melody Paloma
Bella Li
RATBAG editorial by Duncan Hose
John Forbes & my month with Forbes Pt 1 & Pt 2
Liam Ferney
Michael Farrell
Gig Ryan
Tim Wright’s Suns
Melinda Bufton
Ella O’Keefe
Hardie Grant
Penguin Random House
The Wheeler Centre
Cobargo
“TOIL” = Time Off In Lieu
Intro/Outro: Work While You’re Sleeping by Mount Carmel

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Shock: I was (and am) a teacher’s pet.

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Show notes

Recorded on the 10-year anniversary of ModPo, which is taught by Al Filreis & his team.
Delmore Schwartz
Kenneth Koch: ‘I Like Writing’ by Bill Zavatsky
A Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead by Kenneth Koch
Pogo
Also if you want to watch over two hours of Trapdoor you can do that here.

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Email: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
After party podcast: SLEERICKETS

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Eleanor & I get all judgey.

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Show notes

Eleanor’s Forward Prize reviews
Scattered Snows to the North by Carl Phillips
I’m Shouting I LOVED YOUR DAD at my Brother’s Cat by Cecelia Knapp
Pollen by Clare Pollard
Dog on a British Airways Airbus 319-100 by Louisa Campbell
Up Late by Nick Laird
Evelyn Araluen’s Stella Prize acceptance speech
Jacques Roubaud
Outro: DJ Kal – What Hand Feeds You? (Taylor Swift vs. Nine Inch Nails)

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It’s a poetry podcast, except fun: SLEERICKETS

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“The space I felt between me and the world I was always filling with journalism. Poetry utterly collapsed that space.”

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Show notes

• Erik Jensen
• Acute Misfortune (Black Inc. 2014) and the film
• I said the sea was folded (Black Inc. 2021)
• On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen (Black Inc. 2017)
• The Saturday Paper
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Balcony by David Brooks
• How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
• Come to me my melancholy baby by Kate Jennings
• Jane Hirshfield
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• While Standing in Line For Death and The Book of Frank by CAConrad
• The Argonauts and Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• Byron Writer’s Festival
• Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
• John Nixon
• “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”— William Carlos Williams
• Al Filreis and PoemTalk
• Krissy Kneen

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Penguin to my Batman: SLEERICKETS

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‘…& said quietly, ‘Sir, sir’ / & heroin let him leave the room.’

With thanks to Ken, Lou, Alan, Ben, Aidan, K, Cameron, Liam, Matthew & Eleanor.

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• Speed, a Pastoral by John Forbes
• Ken Bolton
• The Poetry of John Forbes by Ken Bolton
• That interview with David Brooks
• John Keats
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Gustave Flaubert
• Thinking of Madame Bovary by Jane Kenyon
• Julian Barnes on the LRB podcast: Flaubert at Two Hundred
• Keats’ Endymion
• Louise Carter
• Alan Wearne
• Ben Michell’s skateboard shop
• Gig Ryan
• Death, an Ode
• A. E. Housman
• Kent St
• Matthew Buckley Smith makes the podcast SLEERICKETS
• Forbes’ Collected Poems
• Aubade by Philip Larkin
• Apophasis
• Negative capability
• James Wright
• Michael Dransfield
• Aidan Coleman
• Pam Brown
• Liam Ferney
• Famously non-drug guy K
• Cameron Clark
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• ground zero by Michael Dransfield
• Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Erik Jensen
• Eleanor’s 2022 Sealey Challenge videos!
• My mate Stu wrote the outro. Thanks, Stu.

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‘it’s fun to take speed / & stay up all night…’

With thanks to Eleanor, Lou & Liam.

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Show notes

• the sealey challenge
• Red Room’s Poetry Month
• John Forbes
• Speed, a Pastoral
• Carlton Gardens
• Poetry Foundation’s definition of the pastoral
• Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear
• Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella
• “A land of sweeping plains”
• Eleanor (7:34)
• Jericho Brown
• The Gifts of John Forbes by Kath Kenny
• Post It by Gig Ryan
• Forbes’ Collected Poems
• Louise Carter
• Luke Davies
• Maze Bright by Jaya Savige
• Liam Ferney
• HEAT
• Golden Bowl Books
• The Oxford book of modern Australian verse edited by Peter Porter
• Readings
• Fix by Michael Dransfield
• Candy by Luke Davies
• My interview with Tracy Ryan
• Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
• sick leave
• Gareth Morgan’s Dear Eileen,
• Harry Reid
• Celebrity Googlebox Australia
• Rrose Selavy (dammit, it’s rose c’est la vie)

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This podcast but backwards and in heels: SLEERICKETS

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“I don’t believe rules are absolute.”

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Show notes

• Tracy Ryan’s books include Scar Revision, Rose Interior & The Argument
• Judith Wright
• Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
• Prisoner
• Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella
• Jennifer Strauss
• Barn Owl by Gwen Harwood
• Self Publishing by Ouyang Yu
• The Rose Interior by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Intro/outro: Rails by Bing and Ruth

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This podcast in a convex mirror: SLEERICKETS

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Contains adult themes.

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Show notes

• Ursula Robinson-Shaw’s chapbooks Noonday and YEARN MALLEY
• sick leave
• Dissociating the Novel (review of New Animal by Ella Baxter)
• Where Do We Go From Nowhere? (review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle)
• Fleabag
• Nanette
• Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
• On Heteropessimism by Asa Seresin
• Mike Crumplar
• The Garret podcast
• Melody Paloma
• Our Death by Sean Bonney
• The ordinary poem
• Room for More by Sanjena Sathian
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• The Rise of Fictionality by Catherine Gallagher
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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The black swan of trespass is coming for us all.

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Show notes

• Missy Elliott’s Under Construction
• Peak oil
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Margot Robbie in The Big Short
• Decoder Ring: The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers
• Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen on Instapoets
• Ep 134. Justin Clemens on Amanda Gorman and many other things
• Bronwyn Lea’s article Poetry bestsellers and other oxymorons
• Kahlil Gibran
• Tank Girl
• A Shropshire Lad 12: When I watch the living meet
• Matthew’s podcast is SLEERICKETS. It’s fun.

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Is poetry ever propaganda?

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• “And I have always felt sorry for people who didn’t grow up next to an ocean, who couldn’t find a similar kind of privacy, the privacy of this interval.” — Lucy Van, The Open
• Ep 181. Midwinter Day
• Joshua Mehigan
• Matthew makes the podcast Sleerickets (it’s very good)
• Ep 183. Poets on film
• Before Night Falls
• Ep. 182. with Nicholas Powell
• Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days by Ben Okri
• Disturbing Vanity Fair article Free Radicals by James Pogue
• Curtis Yarvin, poet
• Yarvin’s poems Christmas Poem and The Desert
• The Passage Prize
• Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams

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