I had the chance to talk with Laurie Duggan at the end of 2019 on a smokey day in Sydney. We began with the Malley poems (what else?). From there we covered how Laurie gathers and shapes his poetic material, what the Sydney poetry scene was like when he first arrived (and how he sees it now), his relationships with contemporaries, how his poems are received, and why he feels it’s important to be ‘a poet among poets’.
Show notes
- Laurie Duggan 2: The Sydney Years, 1972-1978
- The Collected Blue Hills (Puncher & Wattmann, 2011)
- Allotments (Shearsman Books, 2014)
- Crab & Winkle (Shearsman Books, 2009)
- Let’s Get Lost by Laurie Duggan, Ken Bolton & Pam Brown (Vagabond, 2005)
- A Northern Winter (Cordite, 2016)
- Laurie’s blog Graveney Marsh
- Paul Blackburn
- Philip Whalen
- William Carlos Williams
- Cid Corman
- J. H. Prynne
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