By John Shaw Neilson
Shall we assault the pain?
It is the time to part:
Let us of Love again
Eat the impatient heart.
There is a gulf behind
Dull voice and fallen lip,
The blue smoke of the mind,
The gray light on the ship.
Parting is of the cold
That stills the loving breath,
Dimly we taste the old
The pitiless meal of Death.
“So many dead mutants with grudges…”
flight animals by Bronwyn Lea
Hyperbole by Belinda Rule
Apollo Bay by William Fox
Joshua Mehigan’s essay I thought you were a poet
The Female Homer by Jeremy Downes
The Pioneer by Frederick McCubbin (he lives, she dies)
The Bridge in-curve by Grace Cossington-Smith
The Bar by John Brack
Moonrise by David Davies
The Battle for Attention by Nathan Heller
Search Engine: Is there a sane way to use the internet?
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
Graves by Hayden Carruth
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
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Y O U R L O S S
Fully half my brain is Spaced
The Dorothy Porter episodes Pt 1 & 2
Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan (it’s not “my” it’s “our” in his)
Happiness by Jane Kenyon
I have no idea why I was so weird about Pretty Woman. Perfect film.
You are loved and missed, Bella.
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Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.
‘Bombala Boss’: Harry Reid in Conversation with Michael Farrell
The Melbourne School of Literature on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
Psychoanalysis, an Elegy by Jack Spicer
The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought to contain them by George Mouratidis
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There’s something wrong with your priest.
The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry
Our Horace episode on SLEERICKETS
Getting Horace Across by J. Kates
The Essential Horace translated by Burton Raffel
Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
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The poetry bus looks fun, but…
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Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship
That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer
The Fish and At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop
Finding a Long Gray Hair by Jane Kenyon
Jonathan’s review of Colm Tóibín’s book On Elizabeth Bishop
Departing Afghanistan by William H. McRaven
Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
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On not being up to the task.
An ode to the end of poetry by Stan Grant
K & I track Nam Le’s poem Abbotsford I
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do by Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest podcast Object of Sound
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
Ikiru (1952)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
The Australian Dream (2019)
Philippa Hawker’s review of Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma
Nox by Anne Carson
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O’Hara, Berrigan, Forbes, and other animals.
Show notes
The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes: Prick’d by Charm by Duncan Hose
Berrigan’s 10 things I do every day
To the bobbydazzlers by John Forbes
Berrigan’s Sonnets
The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley
Berrigan reads Whitman in Black
O’Hara reads Having a Coke with You
Auden’s Letter to Lord Byron
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“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…”
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The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review by Emily Temple
The Black Art by Anne Sexton
Town Bloody Hall (1979)
What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself by Jen Corrigan
Enemies by Wendell Berry
Alain de Botton’s meltdown and apologies
SLEERICKETS Ep 149: Owls in the Desert & Ep 143: The Problems of Three Little People
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Cats don’t know things, but you do!
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Venus Without Furs by Gabrielle Everall
What is a poetry magazine for? by Victoria Moul
Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business
Ep 259. It means what it says
David makes Ratbag Poetics
Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
Crazy Woman and Other Poems by Anne Elder
Ep 265. The Internet is for poems
That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer
The quote about the void is from the Steve Martin documentary, which I liked a lot.
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