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Antonia Pont

The article we discuss isn’t published (yet), but I’m sure we can slip you a copy if you’d like…

Antonia’s essays The anatomy of a trigger, The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy and Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination

Ep 122. Pessimism is very imprecise

Antonia’s collection You Will Not Know In Advance What You’ll Feel

Ep 247. The one about the flower

The fucking flower

Badiou

Oulipo

Byung-Chul Han

Foucault

Thanks Brian for “walk, eat & read”

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Now, it’s all up to the judges.

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Love poem dedications coming up on Ratbag Poetics!

My interview with Matthew about his beautiful book Midlife

Ep 251. The Poet Eaters

Adam of Chewton

Ep 252. with Geoff Page

The Compulsive Reader

Me fail? I fly!

SLEERICKETS Ep 14: Motherfucker of the Arts on Ben Lerner’s The Lights

Hunter Publishers

Small Publishers and the Emerging Network of Australian Literary Prosumption by Emmett Stinson

Harry Reid, Ursula Robinson-Shaw and Gareth Morgan of sick leave

Shitheads: well are we doing this? by Gareth Morgan

My Tongue in My Own by Ann-Marie Priest

Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews edited by Angela Bennie

Ania Walwicz

Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews Damaged Glamour

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Vale Alex Phemister.

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Geoff Page’s latest books 101 Poems (2011-2021) and Penultima

Ep 251. The Poet Eaters

The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington

Obscurity in Poetry: A Spectrum

Ep 215. The collapsing building

Ep 212. Paul Kane

Smiths Alternative

Geoff’s reviews in ABR

C.P. Cavafy

Bundah Forever!

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Look at this ‘graph.

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My interview with Aaron Irwin

The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

Kate Baer

Peter Craven

Martin Duwell’s Australian Poetry Review

Ep 196. James Jiang: A certain claustrophobia

The journals: Cordite, Australian Book Review, Rochford Street Review, Mascara, Southerly, Rabbit, Sydney Review of Books, Quadrant, foam:e, Meanjin, Westerly

If Selfies Could Talk by Elese Dowden

Leave Me Alone by Harry Reid

The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

Novelties by Fiona Hile

Body Poems by Anupama Pilbrow

You Deserve Happiness But I Deserve More by Daniel Swain

Unbidden: Settler Poetry in the Presence of Indigenous Sovereignty by Bonny Cassidy

Fishing for Lightning: The spark of poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt

Hate poetry? This impressive book might just change your mind by Geoff Page

Ratbag Poetics 19. pio’s poetry tour and some overland poems

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My sign is vital, my hands are cold.

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Show notes

I have a new mic setup and can hear I need to use my pop screen. I will.

I’m so over you, LRB podcast

The Best of Australian Poems 2023

Eat Carpet

David Sims’ Letterboxd reviews

SLEERICKETS Ep 1: That Poetry Voice

Louise Glück reading The Wild Iris

T.S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Ezra Pound reading Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

Robert Lowell reading Skunk Hour

Button Poetry

Ep 241 with Jon Sands

Mahogany L. Browne performing Blurred Vision

Glück’s article Against Sincerity

The Best American Poetry, 1993

Groucho Marx reading Eliot

Helena Bonham Carter reading her favourite poem

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(And at Christmas you tell the truth.)

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You’re the best, John!

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Staring at the sky, spinning in a circle.

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Ep. 246. on Spotify Wrapped etc.

Grant Theft Auto IV

Dorothy Porter

John Forbes

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Didion’s quote about writing as a hostile act

Ep. 157 pov u r the hot ex

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Glass and God by Anne Carson

I’ll Come When Thou Art Saddest by Emily Bronte

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Alice gets really angry at a flower.

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The fucking flower

An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray

The Sydney Push

The Barron Field Experience: On Fascism (the unfuckable bodies edition)

Barron Field x Poetry Says

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Three parts lunatic, one part yahoo, and one part potentially human.

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Show notes

Spotify Wrapped

Greek Tragedy by The Wombats

Australian Poetry Now edited by Thomas Shapcott

St Helens Books

Sun Books and their impressive catalogue

Barjai looks pretty cool

Poets from this anthology I’ve talked about/to/around: Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Max Harris, Les Murray, Vicki Viidikas, John Tranter, Robert Adamson

Sometimes Gladness by Bruce Dawe

Alan Riddell’s The Affair

An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray

Francis Webb

Roger McDonald

Earth Hour by David Malouf

John Forbes: A Pastoral Pt 1

Recent SLEERICKETS appearances: 127: The Mercy Rule & 128: First Thought Sexiest Thought

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Alice is very angry at Bill Harwood.

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Joel Deane’s recent books Judas Boys and Year of the Wasp

The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize

Ken Babstock

Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

C. K. Williams

Helen Garner’s Yellow Notebook

The Nicholas Building

Kintsugi by Isi Unikowski

Ep 244. on Harpur

The Pioneer by Frederick McCubbin

Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin

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