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.
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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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Poetry ≠ therapy?
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There’s a lot of swearing in this episode.
It also gets quite dark.
What happened when I went for therapy — at a poetry retreat by Ian Belcher
Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy
Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore by Kyle Chakra
The Possible Dream (Buying Jeans Online) by Melinda Bufton
Permission Culture Needs to Stop by Elissa Krauss
Thank you, beautiful Jo Ward
A Quiet Sorcery by Ovidian
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Andrew Scott reading Everything is Going to Be Alright
Wisdom: The Voice of God by Mary Karr
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur
Ep 254. with Antonia Pont (on wellness culture)
Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice by Nicholas Mazza
Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life by Diana Hedges
3 Hours of Gentle Night Rain, Rain Sounds for Sleeping
howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com
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The rest is still unwritten…
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Anyone But You (2023)
Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance
Business and Poetry by Dana Gioia
Bucky’s poetry books Intuition, No More Secondhand God, And It Came To Pass—Not To Stay
New Directions’ Black Mountain Poems
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
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“There’s a damp melancholy / in Tang poetry…”
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Poetry as therapy. Thoughts? Email me.
Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest
Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov (on Harwood’s ‘Prize-Giving’)
Elijah covers ‘At Mornington’ on Versecraft
300 Tang Poems translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman & David Lunde
The Mandarin Moralist and the Reckless Rebel: the Improbable Literary Friendship of Du Fu and Li Bai by Bryce Christensen
Dreaming of Li Bai translated by Mike Connors
Dreaming of Li Bai translated by Burton Watson
Dreaming of Li Bai translated by Vikram Seth
A version of the original Chinese text
Various definitions of Jiangnan
Various definitions of jiaolong
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“We are our own.”
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Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television!
My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest
Woman to Man by Judith Wright
The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award
FUCK ALL EDITORS/SO LONG BULLETIN
Blessed City: The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell
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