Ep 244. Tradition and the Individual Snakebite

“The chances of death are very small.”


Show notes

Ep. 200 Anti-insights

The Monkey’s Mask is available at Gertrude and Alice

A primer of English versification by James McAuley

My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest

A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur

The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Charles Harpur Critical Archive

Harpur in anthologies

This is a Christmas beetle

Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine (turns out I’ve been saying his name wrong)

A rill

Acute Misfortune

Sense Shape Symbol: An Investigation of Australian Poetry edited by Brian Keyte

Woman to Man by Judith Wright

The Broad Bean Sermon by Les Murray

Brendan Casey

Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s sick bag poems

The line from Forbes’ Rrose Selavy is “Julie breathing like a t-shirt after a swim”

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

Ken Bolton

Pam Brown

Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius by Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens

Q & A with Justin Clemens and Thomas H. Ford


Send me your silly poetry questions for my Christmas episode: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com

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