Night Flight
Drowned Person
By Rosemary Dobson
After death fire must consume
hair, toenails, large bones and small
and then nothing can be told at all.
These bones, with pollen analysis
of their strata, provide a limited history;
for carbon-dating, deduction and analogy
do not reveal the dark side of the mind
nor betray the heart’s deviousness,
the body’s wilfulness,
the throbbing pules, the fever,
divided longing, madness.
Down, down through the abyss
stratifications can be plotted
and set out on graph paper.
The following is deduced from existing data
and froth flotation of the surrounding
clay-bed: She was a young woman, gracile,
delicate. Died by water. Was vulnerable
and wounded—by love (but that’s hypothesis)—
and carried with her to death such weedy trophies
as willow, nettles, crow-flowers and daises.
Ep 232. How to do it
Sorry if it’s complicated.
Truncated show notes
Making Your Own Days by Kenneth Koch
My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest
Cain Named the Animal by Shane McRae
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Ep 231. On the couch with Alison J Barton
A casual chat about psychoanalysis, feminism & The Voice.
You Will Not Know In Advance What You’ll Feel by Antonia Pont
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (‘The Voice’)
Williamstown Literary Festival
Ep 188. with Ursula Robinson-Shaw
J.K. Rowling and The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling by Contrapoints
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Contrapoints but for poetry: SLEERICKETS
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Ep 230. Matt Wall is sick of being angry
I made one cut in the intro because a pause was too long i’m so sorry
Show notes
The I Hate Matt Wall Poetry Podcast
The Blood Rag & The Bloodshed Review
Matt’s episode about poets not promoting their work
Matt’s episode about AI
Monsters in the Mouth by Bunny Wilde
Brian Brodeur’s review of Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry by Brad Leithauser
The Rod McKuen episode of Slate’s Decoder Ring
SLEERICKETS with Alexis Sears and with Shane McCrae
Intro/outro: To be loved by you by Matt Wall
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Ep 229. Vintage gossip
Messrs Poetry on what is excellent, bad, fatal, useless, tame, “fluxive” & the best.
Show notes
The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter
A Possible Contemporary Poetry: Interviews with thirteen poets from The New Australian Poetry by Martin Duwell
New Poetry edited by Robert Adamson (I’m reading from Vol. 23 No. 3, 1975)
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 edited by Donald Allen
Contemporary American Poetry edited by Donald Hall
pi o on bookshops and many other things, including Fitzrot
Dialogue with John Forbes by Nigel Roberts
Ode to Tropical Skiing by John Forbes
Rex Ingamells and the Jindyworobaks
Nothing is as effective as defeat by Charles Bukowski
The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington
Intro/outro: The Easybeats work out Step Back
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Contemporary American Poetry edited by SLEERICKETS
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Ep 228. Ken Bolton: Generations telling each other jokes
“Head first into the beautiful accident.”
Ken Bolton
Ken’s poem Beginning at Basheer’s Coffee Shop
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Imprints Booksellers
John Tranter
Ern Malley
Robert Adamson
Laurie Duggan
Pam Brown
John Forbes
Dazed in the Ladies Lounge by John Tranter
Ode to Col Joye, Tranter’s cheeky poem for Ken
Coalcliff
John Jenkins
Jacket magazine
Alan Wearne
John A. Scott
Gig Ryan
‘The anthology’: The New Australian Poetry edited by Tranter
Jennifer Maiden
The Best Of All Possible Poems by John Forbes
The epigrams of Martial by Laurie Duggan
Ken’s Penguin selected
Fantastic Day, which includes ‘Letter to John Forbes’, ‘Yours Cordially’, ‘Birds of Rome’ and ‘The Facts’
The Provincialism Problem by Terry Smith
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Happy Birthday, Matthew!
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Ode to Col Joye
By John Tranter
Ep 227. Alison Flett: I don’t ken if I belong
Hindley Street via Scotland.
Show notes
Goodwood Books
Alison Flett’s latest book Where We Are
Alison’s poems Adelaide, I Dream You and Insects
Friendly Street Poets
Jill Jones
Ken Bolton
Little Windows
No Wave
Dominic Symes
The Undying by Anne Boyer
Island
Judith Beveridge
Rachael Mead
Adam Ford’s Dance to the Anticlinal Fold tour
La Mama Poetica July
The Suburban Review’s Jumpstart a Journal program
David Motamed’s new radio show Ratbag Poetics
Ursula Robinson-Shaw’s YEARN MALLEY
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Ep 226. Kinds of heartbreak
Fake laughter in the rooftop bar.
Fresh Air by Kenneth Koch
With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman
Silent co-producer K
John Forbes: Australia’s Wunderkind introduced by Aidan Coleman
Brian Brodeur’s review of Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry by Brad Leithauser
Terrible Love by The National
On Turning Fifty is included in Helen Garner’s True Stories
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More fresh air: SLEERICKETS
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