Cassandra Atherton is extremely patient with my prose poetry skepticism.

Show notes

• The Ordinary and the Unreal by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (Eliot: ‘Both verse and prose still conceal unexplored possibilities, but whatever one writes must be definitely and by inner necessity either one or the other.’)
• The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020)
• For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
• Jessica L. Wilkinson, Cassandra’s collaborator on Memory Book
• Robert Lukins in the Saturday Paper on Jane Campion’s Bright Star
• Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Let Us Be Midwives! by Sadako Kurihara
• Cassandra’s poem Bonds
• In So Many Words: Interviews with Writers, Scholars and Intellectuals (Arcadia, 2013)