Just before New Year’s I got to meet up with Shastra Deo in Brisbane. She spoke about expectation, regret, her award-winning collection The Agonist, how that book continues to follow her, and the weird, frustrating tension between poetry and the industry around it.

Show notes

• Shastra’s interview with Terri Ann Quan Sing for Hello Poet
• Eileen Chong
• Evelyn Araluen’s Dream Sequence piece As We Know It
• Shastra’s poem गुम; or, Lexical Gaps
• Shastra’s interview with Elena Gomez for Liminal & my interview with Elena
• Mindy Gill
• Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today & my interview with editor Alison Whittaker
• The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
• Plath’s bee poems
• Shastra’s poem I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
• Jill Jones
• Liam Ferney 
• Justin Clemens
• Bronwyn Lea
• Sharon Olds’ poem I Go Back to May 1937
• Felicity Plunkett’s book Vanishing Point
• Tegan Webb
• Rory Green
• Zenobia Frost’s poem Meditation on the Body
• Wilfred Owen’s Duce Et Decorum Est
• Rae White’s Twine poem How to Haunt