I interviewed Luke Beesley on a rainy Friday, keen to ask about some of what came up when I spoke to Matthew Buckley Smith on Sleerickets episode 30, and not to ask about process, or influence. (I failed to avoid those areas.)

Luke reads from his latest collection Aqua Spinach as well as from Jam Sticky Vision, and we talk about the fact that we have oceans of patience for weirdos like David Lynch, but very little for contemporary poetry we don’t immediately ‘get’.

Show notes

• Australian Poetry 1969, selected by Vivian Smith
• The Generation (not School) of ’68
• James McAuley
• Ep 69. on Ern Malley
• The Sons of Clovis by David Brooks
• Cordite 24: Children of Malley
• Barbara Guest
• Ashbery Mode edited by Michael Farrell
• Eileen Myles’ new poem pencil & pen
• Ep 143. on Impossible Machine
• Martin Duwell’s review of Lemon Shark
• In the Mood for Love
• Mulholland Drive
• Gerald Murnane
• Helen Garner
• Tony Tuckson