Author: PoetrySays
Ep 35. Corey Wakeling: Having fun with the ANZAC
Two larrikins asking what you’re into, Merlions toasting at your table, a pig showing off – Australia is pretty hilarious when you think about it…
I’m so grateful to Corey Wakeling for walking me through the fantastic Michael Farrell poem ‘An Australian Comedy’ in this episode, which you can find in his 2015 collection Cocky’s Joy.
We also talk about another Farrell collection, Break Me Ouch, along with what it’s like to move away from your poetic community after finding your place, and Corey’s upcoming visit to Oz.
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Ep 34. Poetry basics: Got rhythm?
When my friend asked me to explain how rhythm works in poetry I thought I’d have no trouble…until I opened my poetry encyclopedia.
Show notes
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
- Looking at rhythm and meter in poetry – Poetry for Dummies
- The Violence of Work – Geoff Goodfellow
- Observation – Dorothy Parker
- Mending Wall – Robert Frost
- Another definition of blank verse
- Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield – Luke Davies
- Sonnet 18
- Having it Out with Melancholy – Jane Kenyon
And if you’re keen, a little more on those fascinating names for feet and metre.
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Ep 33. Jessica Wilkinson on poetic biography
How do you tell a life story through a poem? For Jessica Wilkinson, poetry can go much further than straightforward biography. In this interview she talks about discovering Susan Howe, working with (not against) a self-confessed short attention span, and founding the fantastic Rabbit poetry journal.
Show notes
- Beyond Facts and Accuracies in Axon
- Marionette and Suite for Percy Grainger (Vagabond Press)
- George Balanchine
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Ep 32. Cid Corman’s poetry of blank spaces
Cid Corman isn’t afraid to ask unanswerable questions or to leave most of a page blank. In today’s episode he’s asking the question straight up: ‘Is this a poem?’
Show notes
- Join us for SlowPo 2017
- Recordings of Cid’s reading group at CC’s in Kyoto
- It isn’t / what you think…
- It always / comes down and / back to this…
- Nothing / Doing from New Directions (2000)
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Ep 31. Robin Wallace-Crabbe: ‘Art can be a lot of fun’
Robin Wallace-Crabbe describes himself as ‘a dear little old man’ but I’m sure you won’t be fooled by that for long. Welcome back to Poetry Says for 2017 and welcome to the world of Hartmann Wallis, poet and white lightning enthusiast.
Show notes
- Who said what, exactly by Hartmann Wallis (Finlay Lloyd, 2016) and Peter Keneally’s review
- Story of Australia’s People review: Geoffrey Blainey’s conservative populism by Clare Wright
- Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
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Ep 30. A restless Christmas
In my final episode before taking a Christmas break I invite you to be part of the show in 2017 and to check out this close reading of Charles Bernstein’s In a Restless World Like This is, recorded with the wonderful Eleanor Smagarinsky.
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