All episodes – Poetry Says

Ep 293. Global overshare.
Ep 292. The silly season.
Ep 291. Bathroom seashells.
Ep 290. Australian Gothic.
Ep 289. Alpha Sandpit.
Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence.
Ep 287. Live Poets Society.
Ep 286. The wrong crowd.
Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity.
Ep 284. Louise Carter and the Gilded Door.
Ep 283. Tool time.
Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time.
Ep 281. David Brooks returns.
Ep 280. It started recreational.
Ep 279. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt 2.
Ep 278. A good start.
Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines.
Ep 276. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt 1.
Ep 275. The blue smoke of the mind.
Ep 274. Affinities and attentions.
Ep 273. Submit.
Ep 272. Eva Birch: What’s the tea?
Ep 271. Love again.
Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”
Ep 269. Another ending.
Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk.
Ep 267. Writing for revenge.
Ep 266. Poetry camp.
Ep 265. The Internet is for poems.
Ep 264. A poet of the future.
Ep 263. Water-dragon blues.
Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business.
Ep 261. Weird funemployment.
Ep 260. Dom Symes: Trojan Horse of emotion.
Ep 259. It means what it says.
Ep 258. Grace Yee: I did not anticipate this.
Ep 257. Heartbreak Voltron.
Ep 256. Antarctica.
Ep 255. Loose Unit.
Ep 254. Antonia Pont: Good for nothing.
Ep 253. Stake night.
Ep 252. Geoff Page: The good, the bad, and the spondee.
Ep 251. The Poet Eaters.
Ep 250. A preference for abandon.
Ep 249. Just because it’s Christmas.
Ep 248. You.
Ep 247. An absolutely ordinary poem.
Ep 246. Desperate reassessment.
Ep 245. Joel Deane: Making art in Sparta.
Ep 244. Tradition and the Individual Snakebite.
Ep 243. Pigs in the ocean.
Ep 242. Joshua Mehigan: Otherness people.
Ep 241. Jon Sands meets a fan.
Ep 240. Hooroo to all that.
Ep 239. Lunch with Eileen Myles.
Ep 238. Awkward.
Ep 237. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 2.
Ep 236. Sincerely, Caroline Williamson.
Ep 235. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 1.
Ep 234. Not reading My Life.
Ep 233. A pleasure out of hell.
Ep 232. How to do it.
Ep 231. On the couch with Alison J Barton.
Ep 230. Matt Wall is sick of being angry.
Ep 229. Vintage gossip.
Ep 228. Ken Bolton: Generations telling each other jokes.
Ep 227. Alison Flett: I don’t ken if I belong.
Ep 226. Kinds of heartbreak.
Ep 225. Inside Upswell Publishing.
Ep 224. I can’t dance.
Ep 223. Peter Bakowski: The gleaning process.
Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov.
Ep 221. pi o and Collective Effort.
Ep 220. Mostly horizontal.
Ep 219. This is scripture.
Ep 218. Maggie Ball on poetry competitions.
Ep 217. To know is not to cure.
Ep 216. Mindy Gill: Seeing multiplicities.
Ep 215. The collapsing building.
Ep 214. Stephen Edgar, man on the moon.
Ep 213. Hot and bothered.
Ep 212. Paul Kane: The view from the volcano.
Ep 211. The gaps I mean.
Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat.
Ep 209. Funny ha ha.
Ep 208. Lucy Dougan: Hedge school.
Ep 207. Ask Me Anything.
Ep 206. Small magic.
Ep 205. Winnie Dunn on the realities of Australia.
Ep 204. Being bad.
Ep 203. Sarah Holland-Batt on the poems themselves.
Ep 202. Who makes the poem?
Ep 201. Haunted house of poetry.
Ep 200. Anti-insights.
Ep 199. Answered prayers.
Ep 198. Felicity Plunkett on the poetry editor’s invisible work.
Ep 197. Fury.
Ep 196. James Jiang: A certain claustrophobia.
Ep 195. Harry Reid: Poetry rocks.
Ep 194. Learning to read.
Ep 193. Prize fight.
Ep 192. Erik Jensen: Intimacy and trespass.
Ep 191. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 2
Ep 190. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 1
Ep 189. Tracy Ryan: Infinite pie.
Ep 188. Ursula Robinson-Shaw: Beast Mode.
Ep 187. Peak poetry.
Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy.
Ep 185. Big sad poetry friendship.
Ep 184. Gareth Morgan: Vagabond.
Ep 183. Poets on film (a tragedy).
Ep 182. Nicholas Powell on taking cheeky seriously.
Ep 181. Midwinter Day.
Ep 180. Lucy Van on privacy, prizes, truth, and tennis.
Ep 179. Solace and trash.
Ep 178. Why do poetry journals keep rejecting me?
Ep 177. Kate Middleton on the death of Luke Perry.
Ep 176. Autumn Royal on the inescapable.
Ep 175. Pam Brown returns.
Ep 174. Eleanor vs. the Ocean Vuong Phenomenon.
Ep 173. Follow the money.
Ep 172. The Wizards of OzCo.
Ep 171. People you’ve never heard of.
Ep 170. Kent MacCarter: The publisher’s Kuiper Belt.
Ep 169. No one missed poetry readings.
Ep 168. Cassandra Atherton: On finding your people.
Ep 167. Just like Scorsese.
Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen: Quote unquote real poetry.
Ep 165. This is why people hate poetry!
Ep 164. Thabani Tshuma: It’s just gonna work out.
Ep 163. A map, a memory, a seal.
Ep 162. Rilke vs. Mondays.
Ep 161. A deadly sin.
Ep 160. What’s a poet?
Ep 159. Shastra Deo: Pressure, persona & the ‘I’
Ep 158. Matthew Buckley Smith: Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Ep 157. pov ur the hot ex.
Ep 156. Quitting.
Ep 155. Luke Beesley: There is no puzzle.
Ep 154. The big sleep.
Ep 153. Jennifer Compton: Poetry as Cassandra.
Ep 152. Nonsense and crying.
Ep 151. Peter Goldsworthy: ‘There are 25 million poets in this country.’
Ep 150. Nerding out with my mate Eleanor.
Ep 149. Maddie Godfrey on teaching & joy.
Ep 148. Loki Liddle: ‘There are no Aboriginals in On The Road’
Ep 147. Dan Hogan: ‘Somewhere a landlord is kissing another landlord.’
Ep 146. Maxine Beneba Clarke: ‘Art does not live on art alone.’
Ep 145. John Kinsella on community & empathy.
Ep 144. Poetry Month preview.
Ep 143. Impossible Machine.
Ep 142. Ep-i-tha-la-mi-ums.
Ep 141. Thuy On’s ‘Turbulence’.
Ep 140. The poetry of insomnia.
Ep 139. Ella O’Keefe on process, offcuts and going slow.
Ep 138. Workshop.
Ep 137. Christian Bök’s poetic moonshot.
Ep 136. Bella Li on witches, genre, artistic control and her new collection.
Ep 135. Prosody, decolonisation, Dickinson.
Ep 134. Justin Clemens: The inbox at the end of the world.
Ep 133. Michael Aiken: Working outside the lines.
Ep 132. Anne-Marie Te Whiu: Weaving a moment.
Ep 131. Fiona Wright: Beyond the narrative map.
Ep 130. Letter from Melbourne, mid-October, 2020.
Ep 129. The Empty Show: It exists!
Ep 128. Oscar-worthy poems.
Ep 127. Liam Ferney: Poetry is a galaxy.
Ep 126. Michelle Cahill: A flowering of voices.
Ep 125. Letter from Melbourne, mid-August, 2020.
Ep 124. Gayatri Nair reports from Western Sydney.
Ep 123. Hilda Morely’s Song of the Terrible.
Ep 122. Antonia Pont: ‘Pessimism is very imprecise.’
Ep 121. ‘Are all poets depressed?’
Ep 120. Ellen van Neerven: Love poems, comfort and writing Throat.
Ep 119. Hypochondria vs Poetry.
Ep 118. Alison Whittaker on First Nations poetry and unanswerable questions.
Ep 117. David Stavanger on community, self-care, burnout and dog minding.
Ep 116. Daniel Swain on straight men and institutional absurdity.
Ep 115. Michael Farrell and the swimming pool of poetry.
Ep 114. On publication.
Ep 113. On rejection.
Ep 112. Laurie Duggan: ‘Fragments, fragments, thefts and blunders.’
Ep 111. The poems that sustained me throughout 2019.
Ep 110. Elena Gomez on Body of Work.
Ep 109. The Frustration of Five Bells.
Ep 108. Bonny Cassidy on image, history and reckoning.
Ep 107. Revisiting Joanne Kyger.
Ep 106. David Brooks on opening.
Ep 105. e e cummings makes a surprise appearance.
Ep 104. Pam Brown, skeptical optimist.
Ep 103. Finally reading Donald Hall.
Ep 102. Chris Wallace-Crabbe on his latest collection.
Ep 101. Eleanor Smagarinsky on letting go of poetry books.
Ep 100. Louise Carter interviews me!
Ep 99. The off-mic chats poets have with me all have common themes…
Ep 98. Jeanine Leane on education, representation and unasked questions.
Ep 97. On my favourite poem, Dorothy Porter’s Lucky
Ep 96. Eddie Paterson on trashiness and profundity.
Ep 95. Frank O’Hara on his way to work.
Ep 94. Claire Albrecht on Jorie Graham.
Ep 93. Two beautiful, quiet poems by David Brooks.
Ep 92. A very special reunion with Adam Ford.
Ep 91. Kate Lilley’s anti-pastoral.
Ep 90. A poem for broken friendships.
Ep 89. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a List Poem.
Ep 88. Joel Deane on writing and not writing.
Ep 87. Sylvia Path, beekeeper.
Ep 86. A.J. Carruthers on sound poetry and experimentalism.
Ep 85. Paterson, Williams and women.
Ep 84. Petra White on Ezekiel, motherhood, work and revision.
Ep 83. Two not quite love poems by John Ashbery and David Herd.
Ep 82. Grant Caldwell on one of my favourites, his poem I am not the trick of the flower.
Ep 81. How to find a poetry mentor.
Ep 80. Louise Carter dives back into Luke Davies’ Totem and Interferon Psalms.
Ep 79. A Horatian ode, whatever that is.
Ep 78. Lisa Gorton on Marianne Moore.
Ep 77. Notes from a writing retreat.
Ep 76. Will Druce on Lorca and O’Hara.
Ep 75. Forget Rumi, Gertrude Stein is still here for you.
Ep 74. Geraldine Burrowes on Michael Farrell and Claire Gaskin
Ep 73. Inside a poetry workshop II: erasure, cut-ups and villanelles
Ep 72. Anupama Pilbrow on the eve of leaving Melbourne.
Ep 71. Writing an Easter sestina
Ep 70. Claire Gaskin on Gig Ryan, specificity and emotion.
Ep 69. Ern Malley’s birthday bash.
Ep 68. Ali Alizadeh on power and influence in poetry.
Ep 67. Poems for time-challenged people.
Ep 66. Maggie Ball on what we read last summer and writing goals for the new year.
Ep 65. Poems of solitary delights and a dash of Robert Creeley.
Ep 64. Stuart Cooke on how he wrote his book Opera.
Ep 63. Ed Tato on poems that must be spoken aloud.
Ep 62. Amanda Anastasi on poetry at the mic.
Ep 61. Dave Drayton on PMs and poetry demo tapes.
Ep 60. John Blight’s advice for Aussie poets – from 1965.
Ep 59. Melinda Bufton on everything from the lyric to lyrics, performance to feminism.
Ep 58. On not writing. I could call it a ‘fallow period’ but it ain’t that fancy.
Ep 57. Auden’s secret journal. It’s a fascinating story. So why can’t I make it a good poem?
Ep 56. Getting published. Sean Wright has some good news and we both have tips.
Ep 55. John Ashbery’s Your name here: A life in 14 lines.
Ep 54. Alistair Baldwin on Spike Milligan and mastering the dreaded 100-word bio.
Ep 53. Steve Wasserman on Wallace Stevens: Can poetry be used as a kind of medicine?
Ep 52. Inside a poetry workshop with Benjamin Dodds and Mran-Maree Laing.
Ep 51. Toby Fitch on Rimbaud and how he turned the French master upside-down.
Ep 50. Poems (and quotes) about taking that first step towards making something.
Ep 49. Gemma Mahadeo on Fred D’Aguiar, Ted Hughes, history and place.
Ep 48. Benjamin Solah on Melbourne’s spoken word community.
Ep 47. Jack Spicer and the idea of poetry as ‘dictation’.
Ep 46. Imposter syndrome: Why do poets sometimes feel like frauds?
Ep 45. Getting into poetry: Are ‘difficult’ poems really worth bothering with? (Plus a bonus day after first reading follow-up.)
Ep 44. Anne Carson’s The Glass Essay: Convalescing on the Canadian moors.
Ep 43. Teaching poetry in schools: O Captain, My Captain!
Ep 42. Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford: A many more poets besides.
Ep 41. A found poem: And the problem of anthologies.
Ep 40. Ellen O’Brien on Alison Whittaker: A poem for those long hours spent in a Google spiral.
Ep 39. Rhea Bhagat on Robin Coste Lewis and your new obsession, Riz Ahmed.
Ep 38. Williams, Hayes, Parker, Zucker: A grab-bag around the theme ‘poetry and the news’.
Ep 37. Magdalena Ball on Samuel Wagan Watson and the event that stopped her novel in its tracks.
Ep 36. Poetry basics – Rhyme: Once you know what to look for, it’s all over the place.
Ep 35. Corey Wakeling on Michael Farrell: The comedy that is Australia and what it’s like to leave it all behind.
Ep 34. Poetry basics – Rhythm: What it is, how to find it and whether to worry about it.
Ep 33. Jessica Wilkinson on Susan Howe: Why poetry sometimes tells more than a straightforward biography.
Ep 32. Cid Corman: A prolific poet who knew how to make room for questions.
Ep 31. Robin Wallace-Crabbe on Hartmann Wallis: Reminder: making art can actually be fun.
Ep 30. Eleanor Smagarinsky on Charles Bernstein: Julio Iglesias makes a guest appearance.
Ep 29. Molly Silverstein on Maggie Nelson: Another perspective on Maggie and making time for poems.
Ep 28. Poetry on the TV: This ain’t no dead poets society.
Ep 27. Tricia Dearborn on Maggie Nelson: Why poetry should be a pleasure, not a duty.
Ep 26. R D Wood on Aboriginal song poetry and what Australia looks like from afar.
Ep 25. Post-election grab bag: In New York, wishing poetry wasn’t suddenly so relevant.
Ep 24. Rob Wilson on Benjamin Frater: A fantastical political murder and the realities of the writing life.
Ep 23. Jill Jones: Not all poems have to be about love and/or death.
Ep 22. R. A. Villanueva on Jack Gilbert: Taking a closer look at a poem on ‘stubborn gladness’.
Ep 21. Adrienne Rich: Wildness and patience, coexisting.
Ep 20. Sophie Mayer on Allison Hedge Coke: Interconnectedness, ‘feminine’ forms, the poetry bubble – all the way through to Transparent.
Ep 19. Hannah Gamble: A poem about distance, proximity, words failing and secrets growing.
Ep 18. SB Wright on Kay Ryan: The time it takes to go from first draft to published.
Ep 17. Olena Kalytiak Davis: An Alaskan poet who insists: ‘I was minor’.
Ep 16. Benjamin Dodds on Russell Edson: A poem that may leave you queasy.
Ep 15. Getting into poetry: No secret password required. Your opinion is legit!
Ep 14. Lisa Brockwell on Dorothy Porter and Kathleen Jamie: Two poems that celebrate the strength of girlhood.
Ep 13. Edward Thomas: A little experiment on a tough, quiet WWI poem.
Ep 12. Robbie Coburn on Phillip Larkin: How an early dose of Poe sent Robbie down the poetry rabbit hole.
Ep 11. Stuart Barnes on Sylvia Plath: Diving deep into Ariel. Is it a perfect poem?
Ep 10. Ted Berrigan: Proof that we’re all free to interpret poems as we wish. No Poetry Police in sight.
Ep 9. Loma and Walt Whitman: Sometimes you need to read poetry instead of the news.
Ep 8. Louise Carter on Carol Ann Duffy and Luke Davies: On two poetry heroes (and meeting one of them).
Ep 7. Michele Seminara on Elizabeth Bishop: The beauty of slow and steady.
Ep 6. Judith Wright: Ever love a poem a bit too much? …me neither.
Ep 5. Basho: People were failing at mindfulness long before it was hashtag.
Ep 4: Cristina Haraba on Mihai Eminescu: On Romania’s multi-layered national poet.
Ep 3. Jane Kenyon: Happiness is a slippery little sucker.
Ep 2. Sonya Tsakalakis on Charlotte Mew: Tragedy and courage in Bloomsbury.
Ep. 1. Gertrude Stein: Surprisingly good in a crisis.