Autumn Royal on writing poems in Roxby Downs, sessional teaching from a hot desk, appearing suss at art galleries, reality eclipsing her first book, and “grittiness”.

Show notes

• Snake Story by Dorothy Porter
• Autumn’s collection She Woke & Rose
• Bernadette Mayer’s The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty
• Lacan on Death
• Lindsay Tuggle’s Calenture
• Auden’s In Memory of W. B. Yeats
• Juliana Schiesari’s The Gendering of Melancholia
• Mascara Literary Review
• Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
• Anupama Pilbrow’s Body Poems and Autumn’s review of it in Overland
• Pam Brown’s Authentic Local
• April Bernard’s Anger
• Divisive tune Shake it off
• Robyn Coste Lewis
• Autumn’s poem [Regarding] The Pain of Others
• Outro: Gladie covers Plea from a cat named virtue by The Weakerthans