Ep 8. Louise Carter on Duffy, Davies, doubt and humour
I had a blast talking to Sydney-based poet Louise Carter today about UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Australian poet Luke Davies. We cover everything from self-doubt to housemates, how copywriting sometimes leads to poetry and what it’s like to have tea with your poetry idol. For bonus points, check out:
- Louise’s wonderful blog alone with beauty and her poem Marrickville on Cordite.
- The shocking truth that Carol Ann has not written a poem for either of the recent royal births. Sharp intake of breath!!!
- Luke Davies’ chat with ABC Radio National about Interferon Psalms.
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Ep 7. Michele Seminara on Bishop: The internal battle
This week I got to talk to Australian poet Michele Seminara about Elizabeth Bishop’s mysterious, insistent poem Giant Snail. (Bishop’s One Art and Filling Station also pop up.) Michele is the managing editor of the online creative arts journal Verity La and the author of Engraft, which came out earlier this year.
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Ep 6. Judith Wright: When your conscience catches up with you
‘Appreciation of poetry, one out of 10 or whatever it might be, is quite alien to what a poet feels about poetry.’ So says Judith Wright, a poet I’ve avoided far longer than I want to admit…
Read today’s poem Eroded Hills, check out the Guardian’s obituary for Wright and learn more about her at the Judith Wright Centre.
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Ep 5. Basho: It’s ok to fail at mindfulness
If the proliferation of posters, t-shirts, mugs and grocery bags urging you towards ‘mindfulness’ is starting to grate, 17th century haiku master Basho has your back in today’s episode.
Read Jane Hirshfield’s beautiful translation or check out the Japanese version (which I stuffed up by pronouncing the first character ‘Kyoto’ instead of ‘Kyo’…here’s a Japanese cuckoo to make up for that).
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Ep 4. Cristina Haraba on Eminescu: Bohemian? Conservative? Buddhist?
At first, Romania’s national poet Mihai Eminescu seems like your standard tragic Romantic poet. But as Cristina Haraba explains, he’s much actually much more human than that.
Read today’s poem With life’s tomorrow time you grasp and find out more about its translator Corneliu M. Popescu and the Popescu Prize.
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