Poetry Says

Ep 163. A map, a memory, a seal


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K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I.

Show notes

  • Nam on Wikipedia
  • An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS
  • Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
  • Salvatore the seal
“Time, once more, for the big clean-out of winter fittings…”
“Where was I? Dights Falls, right, quick yet, and yet intact…”
“sun full on the red brick wall – sunnies on!”
“Give me the Birrarung’s boozy petrowhiff any day – that special gas smell of brown gleam.”
“(as the wall says) I love you my beans.”
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Poetry SaysBy Alice Allan

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