Author: PoetrySays

Autumn Royal on writing poems in Roxby Downs, sessional teaching from a hot desk, appearing suss at art galleries, reality eclipsing her first book, and “grittiness”.

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• Snake Story by Dorothy Porter
• Autumn’s collection She Woke & Rose
• Bernadette Mayer’s The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty
• Lacan on Death
• Lindsay Tuggle’s Calenture
• Auden’s In Memory of W. B. Yeats
• Juliana Schiesari’s The Gendering of Melancholia
• Mascara Literary Review
• Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
• Anupama Pilbrow’s Body Poems and Autumn’s review of it in Overland
• Pam Brown’s Authentic Local
• April Bernard’s Anger
• Divisive tune Shake it off
• Robyn Coste Lewis
• Autumn’s poem [Regarding] The Pain of Others
• Outro: Gladie covers Plea from a cat named virtue by The Weakerthans

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Pam Brown is back to talk new work, readings, myths, prize culture & the NBN.

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• Stasis Shuffle
• Collected Works bookshop
• Ep 104. with Pam
• Sappho’s
• Ken Bolton
• Amelia Dale
• A.J. Carruthers
• Michael Farrell reads at Readings
• Laurie Duggan
• Pam’s review of Sydney Spleen by Toby Fitch
• The Jindyworobak Movement
• Let’s Get Lost by Pam, Ken & Laurie
• Maya Deren
• Click here for what we do which won the ALS Gold Medal
• Pam’s recent poem MOOT, the other t-shirt
• Intro/outro: Rails by Bing and Ruth

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Beware the Alley of Prosody.

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• Ep 150. Nerding out with Eleanor
• BookTube
• Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother
• Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
• Popular musician Beyoncé
• Emily Berry’s Unexhausted Time
• Exceptional song Love Again by Dua Lipa
• Thin Air by Linda Gregerson
• Outro: Happy Cat Disco – Delight In New Rules (Dua Lipa vs. Maethelvin)

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Following on from last week, David Latham from fund the arts shares some hair-curling statistics about arts funding as it stands in the lead-up to the federal election. If you want to know more about the campaign, you can find them on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

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• The Creativity in Crisis report
• Ben Eltham
• Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy
• The Strays by Emily Bitto
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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• Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter
• 2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry by Bonny Cassidy
• Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy
• Australia Council for the Arts
• The Stella Prize
• A message from the Australia Council CEO
• Can Australian literature survive another round of arts cuts (panel at Readings with Emily Bitto, Peter Rose & Clare Forster)

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In/significance in poetry.

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• I Was Minor by Olena Kalytiak Davis and her interview on the Commonplace podcast
• Poem by Weldon Kees
• The Disappearing Poet by Anthony Lane
• Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton – Lecture 3
• Milton’s Ad Patrem
• George Green’s Summer of ’72

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The managing editor of Cordite on acceptances, rejections, guest editors, money, book making and risk.

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• Cordite Books, which has published poets including Jeanine Leane, John Mukky Burke, Alison Flett, Kim Cheng Boey, Tony Birch, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Omar Sakr & Lucy Van
• They will oxidise before you even finish reading, Kent’s piece for Overland on poetry publishing in Australia circa 2017
• Some publishers of full length collections in Australia: Cordite Books, Puncher & Wattmann, Giramondo, Recent Work Press, Upswell, UQP, Vagabond
• “Jess” = Jessica Wilkinson of Rabbit Poetry
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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Hey Jane. Get me offa this crazy thing.

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• So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)
• Woman!
• Woman! (breakup)
• Harriet!
• Allen Ginsberg reads America
• Jack Kerouac reads American Haikus
• Episodes 150 & 101

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Cassandra Atherton is extremely patient with my prose poetry skepticism.

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• The Ordinary and the Unreal by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (Eliot: ‘Both verse and prose still conceal unexplored possibilities, but whatever one writes must be definitely and by inner necessity either one or the other.’)
• The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020)
• For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
• Jessica L. Wilkinson, Cassandra’s collaborator on Memory Book
• Robert Lukins in the Saturday Paper on Jane Campion’s Bright Star
• Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Let Us Be Midwives! by Sadako Kurihara
• Cassandra’s poem Bonds
• In So Many Words: Interviews with Writers, Scholars and Intellectuals (Arcadia, 2013)

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Drawing lines and immediately walking over them.

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• Scorsese on Marvel Movies
• Why do crickets chirp?
• Ep 163. with K
• Boys for Pele (1996)
• The Holiday (2006)
• Roderick on the Line (forever)
• Ep 118. with Alison Whittaker
• Alison’s review of Sarah Maddison
• SLEERICKETS Ep 45
• Loma AKA Christopher Soto’s poem All The Dead Boys Look Like Me
• Maggie Smith’s Good Bones
• Cid Corman’s it always comes down… (misquoted)
• Kerouac’s Bowery Blues
• David is wrong about The Castle

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