Author: PoetrySays

“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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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

Fully Booked

Angry Penguins

The Jindyworobaks

Max Harris

The Ern Malley hoax

Vincent Buckley

Bruce Beaver

Francis Webb

Meliorism

Being Neighbours by Christine Churches

Charles Buckmaster

Mark O’Connor

Michael Dransfield

John Forbes

Jonathan Farmer’s review of Promises of Gold

Ep 285. with Martin Duwell

Ep 284. with Louise Carter

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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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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

R. A. Villanueva

Shel Silverstein

Button Poetry

Commonplace

Terrance Hayes

Molly’s Game (2017)

Greg Williamson

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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Storytime: I was a teenage Maxx fan.

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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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Tending the thousand flowers.

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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

Patrick White

James Jiang

Vincent Buckley

A. D. (Alec) Hope

James McAuley

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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“No quitting.”

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Louise Carter

Ester Perel

Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8

Lou’s poems Marrickville and Windows

Lou’s book Golden Repair

Helen Garner

AWARD School

Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies

UTS

Sappho Books

Lyn Hejinian

Ali Cobby Eckermann

pi o

Ivor Indyk

Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark

Summer by Martin Harrison

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Or, More Lasting Than Monsters.

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Ep 265. The Internet is for poems

Matthew Buckley Smith

The Silver Swan by Gwen Harwood

New Verse Review

Search Engine: What Do Trigger Warnings Actually Do?

Ep 222. with Elijah on Harwood

My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest

Octavia Butler

To Marylin Manson by Matthew Buckley Smith

Phoenix Rising (2022)

Tool

Bill Hicks

Amy (2015)

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers

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On tour in Oz!

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Rae Armantrout

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis

Michael Farrell

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

Georgic by Kate Liley

Lionel Fogarty

Go Figure by Rae Armantrout

Rae’s poems The Way and Travelling through the Yard

Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford

Pam Brown

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Rae interviewed in BOMB by Ben Lerner

A. D. Hope

Language poetry

Rae’s Poetry Foundation profile

Lyn Hejinian

Ron Silliman

Lydia Davis

Bob Perelman

Kelly Writers House

Ken Bolton

Bruce Andrews

Anselm Berrigan

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“I seem to be a little bit less burdened by myself.”

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The Poetry Detective

Ern Malley

David Brooks’ books include Walking to Point Clear, The Sons of Clovis, The Balcony, Animal Dreams, and The other side of daylight

Ep 106 with David

Maud

Rilke’s Duino Elegies

The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

Ezra Pound’s Cantos

The Penguin Book of Chinese Poetry

David Hinton

Edward Weston

The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets

Southerly

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