Author: PoetrySays

Clutching my pearls over Instapoetry with Rachael Nielsen.

(Write to me! poetrysayspod@gmail.com)

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• Rabbit issue 24
• Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf
• Lora Mathis
• Instagram Poetry for Every Day
• Segovia Amil
• Katy Waldman: “…there has to be a better way to lift up people with problems than to declare that problems are beautiful. Who cares if problems are beautiful? They’re problems!”
• Halsey’s I Would Leave Me If I Could
• Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
• Todd in the Shadows: TRAINWRECKORDS on Katy Perry’s Witness
• Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
• Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World by Carl Denis
• Kate Baer
• Outro: Something Just Like Midnight City (The Chainsmokers ft. Coldplay vs. M83) by Logan

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Please give the academics more wine.

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• T.S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness (2019)
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes by Dan Chiasson
• High Windows by Philip Larkin
• No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief. by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• I always put my pussy… by Eileen Myles
• Rilke’s Duino Elegies
• Moonrise by David Davies

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Extremely reasonable and talented human being Thabani Tshuma talks me off various ledges.

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• The Melba Speigeltent
• The Melbourne Spoken Word Prize
• Thabani’s poems Put It In Writing and No Strings
• La Mama Theatre
• The Thin Red Lines poetry event series
• Roger Selazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
• Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment
• Ross Gay’s The Books of Delights
• Connecting Worlds with Words

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K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I.

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• Nam on Wikipedia
• An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS
• Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
• Salvatore the seal

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“To wake up and be like the weather to be no longer the broken hearted servants of mad kings.”

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• Robert Montgomery
• The Great Resignation/Hidden Resignation
• Ep 147. with Dan Hogan
• Letters to a Young Poet & Rilke’s writing advice
• Carl Skoggard’s translation of Archaic Torso of Apollo
• The Grass Library & Ep 106. with David Brooks
• The Open by Lucy Van
• Outro: 28 Ghosts IV by Nine Inch Nails

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“Who on earth would sing, if song were merely an effortless warbling until kingdom come?”

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• Vagabond’s new work campaign
• Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
• Everything you need to know about Rachel Hollis
• Ep 158 with Matthew Buckley Smith
• Sleerickets Ep 39
• Envy by Contrapoints
• The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy
• Envy of Other People’s Poems by Robert Haas
• Aria by Sarah Holland-Batt
• Growing a Bear by Hannah Gamble
• Suns by Tim Wright
• Moons by Toby Fitch
• praise song by Nate Marshall
• Sonnet for the good meat by Ursula Robinson-Shaw
• Stasis Shuffle by Pam Brown
• The Poetry of Death by Donald Hall
• Gwen Harwood

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And what is the fastest fish?

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• Archives Fine Books
• My interview with Shastra Deo
• Helen Allan
• John Blight
• Two absolute icons

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Just before New Year’s I got to meet up with Shastra Deo in Brisbane. She spoke about expectation, regret, her award-winning collection The Agonist, how that book continues to follow her, and the weird, frustrating tension between poetry and the industry around it.

Show notes

• Shastra’s interview with Terri Ann Quan Sing for Hello Poet
• Eileen Chong
• Evelyn Araluen’s Dream Sequence piece As We Know It
• Shastra’s poem गुम; or, Lexical Gaps
• Shastra’s interview with Elena Gomez for Liminal & my interview with Elena
• Mindy Gill
• Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today & my interview with editor Alison Whittaker
• The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
• Plath’s bee poems
• Shastra’s poem I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
• Jill Jones
• Liam Ferney 
• Justin Clemens
• Bronwyn Lea
• Sharon Olds’ poem I Go Back to May 1937
• Felicity Plunkett’s book Vanishing Point
• Tegan Webb
• Rory Green
• Zenobia Frost’s poem Meditation on the Body
• Wilfred Owen’s Duce Et Decorum Est
• Rae White’s Twine poem How to Haunt

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Matthew Buckley Smith is a poet who makes a podcast called SLEERICKETS.

You’re welcome.

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• SLEERICKETS Ep 33: Pudding Day
• More starter episodes: Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts: (includes discussion of Ben Lerner’s The Lights), Ep 24: Musée des NSFW Arts (includes discussion of Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn) & Ep 13: Against Hope (my favourite).
• Shane McCrae
• Frederick Seidel
• William Logan
• Christopher Childers
• Justin Clemens
• Ryan Wilson & Matthew’s essay about his friendship with Ryan
• Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist
• Joshua Mehigan
• Terrance Hayes
• Anseo by Paul Muldoon
• Kevin Young
• Joshua Beckman
• Katy Lederer
• Jonathan Farmer, his journal At Length & Matthew’s dramatic monologues published there, including ‘Ankou’
• Austin Allen’s article Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse

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Turns out I just really like pop music.

p.s. Since recording this I’ve learned that A. E. Housman rushed out his Last Poems hoping straight boy crush Moses Jackson would read it. Girl, same.

Show notes

• No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
• Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
• Mibu Tadamine
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• The In Our Time ep on Fitzgerald’s bitter motivations for translating said Rubaiyat
• Anne Sexton’s For My Lover, Returning to His Wife (still no clue what an ‘aggie’ is)
• Ouyang Yu’s Self Publishing
• Morgan Parker’s Now More Than Ever, When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed Next to Me and Falls Asleep & Magical Negro
• Chats with Justin Clemens & Laurie Duggan
• Laurie’s The Epigrams of Martial
• pov ur anne sexton

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