On March 19th, 2020 I sat under a tree with Michael Farrell – one of the most influential poets working in Australia today. We were meeting at a strange moment in history, but spent a lot of our time laughing. We discussed everything from One Direction to the role of Catholicism in Michael’s poetry, the processes he uses to create his work, and whether he’ll ever take on ABBA’s Dancing Queen as a poetic subject.
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We touched on these books of Michael’s:
- Family Trees (Giramondo, 2020)
- Ashbery Mode (Tinfish Press, 2019)
- I Love Poetry (Giramondo, 2017)
- Open Sesame (Giramondo, 2012)
- thempark (BookThug, 2010)
- ode ode (Salt Publishing, 2002)
- More Poetry Says episodes on Michael’s work from Geraldine Burrowes and Corey Wakeling
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