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• Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter
• 2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry by Bonny Cassidy
• Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy
• Australia Council for the Arts
• The Stella Prize
• A message from the Australia Council CEO
• Can Australian literature survive another round of arts cuts (panel at Readings with Emily Bitto, Peter Rose & Clare Forster)

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In/significance in poetry.

Show notes

• I Was Minor by Olena Kalytiak Davis and her interview on the Commonplace podcast
• Poem by Weldon Kees
• The Disappearing Poet by Anthony Lane
• Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton – Lecture 3
• Milton’s Ad Patrem
• George Green’s Summer of ’72

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The managing editor of Cordite on acceptances, rejections, guest editors, money, book making and risk.

Show notes

• Cordite Books, which has published poets including Jeanine Leane, John Mukky Burke, Alison Flett, Kim Cheng Boey, Tony Birch, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Omar Sakr & Lucy Van
• They will oxidise before you even finish reading, Kent’s piece for Overland on poetry publishing in Australia circa 2017
• Some publishers of full length collections in Australia: Cordite Books, Puncher & Wattmann, Giramondo, Recent Work Press, Upswell, UQP, Vagabond
• “Jess” = Jessica Wilkinson of Rabbit Poetry
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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Hey Jane. Get me offa this crazy thing.

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• So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)
• Woman!
• Woman! (breakup)
• Harriet!
• Allen Ginsberg reads America
• Jack Kerouac reads American Haikus
• Episodes 150 & 101

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Cassandra Atherton is extremely patient with my prose poetry skepticism.

Show notes

• The Ordinary and the Unreal by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (Eliot: ‘Both verse and prose still conceal unexplored possibilities, but whatever one writes must be definitely and by inner necessity either one or the other.’)
• The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020)
• For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
• Jessica L. Wilkinson, Cassandra’s collaborator on Memory Book
• Robert Lukins in the Saturday Paper on Jane Campion’s Bright Star
• Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Let Us Be Midwives! by Sadako Kurihara
• Cassandra’s poem Bonds
• In So Many Words: Interviews with Writers, Scholars and Intellectuals (Arcadia, 2013)

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Drawing lines and immediately walking over them.

Show notes

• Scorsese on Marvel Movies
• Why do crickets chirp?
• Ep 163. with K
• Boys for Pele (1996)
• The Holiday (2006)
• Roderick on the Line (forever)
• Ep 118. with Alison Whittaker
• Alison’s review of Sarah Maddison
• SLEERICKETS Ep 45
• Loma AKA Christopher Soto’s poem All The Dead Boys Look Like Me
• Maggie Smith’s Good Bones
• Cid Corman’s it always comes down… (misquoted)
• Kerouac’s Bowery Blues
• David is wrong about The Castle

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Clutching my pearls over Instapoetry with Rachael Nielsen.

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Show notes

• Rabbit issue 24
• Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf
• Lora Mathis
• Instagram Poetry for Every Day
• Segovia Amil
• Katy Waldman: “…there has to be a better way to lift up people with problems than to declare that problems are beautiful. Who cares if problems are beautiful? They’re problems!”
• Halsey’s I Would Leave Me If I Could
• Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
• Todd in the Shadows: TRAINWRECKORDS on Katy Perry’s Witness
• Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
• Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World by Carl Denis
• Kate Baer
• Outro: Something Just Like Midnight City (The Chainsmokers ft. Coldplay vs. M83) by Logan

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Please give the academics more wine.

Show notes

• T.S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness (2019)
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes by Dan Chiasson
• High Windows by Philip Larkin
• No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief. by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• I always put my pussy… by Eileen Myles
• Rilke’s Duino Elegies
• Moonrise by David Davies

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Extremely reasonable and talented human being Thabani Tshuma talks me off various ledges.

Show notes

• The Melba Speigeltent
• The Melbourne Spoken Word Prize
• Thabani’s poems Put It In Writing and No Strings
• La Mama Theatre
• The Thin Red Lines poetry event series
• Roger Selazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
• Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment
• Ross Gay’s The Books of Delights
• Connecting Worlds with Words

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K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I.

Show notes

• Nam on Wikipedia
• An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS
• Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
• Salvatore the seal

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