Is poetry ever propaganda?

Show notes

• “And I have always felt sorry for people who didn’t grow up next to an ocean, who couldn’t find a similar kind of privacy, the privacy of this interval.” — Lucy Van, The Open
• Ep 181. Midwinter Day
• Joshua Mehigan
• Matthew makes the podcast Sleerickets (it’s very good)
• Ep 183. Poets on film
• Before Night Falls
• Ep. 182. with Nicholas Powell
• Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days by Ben Okri
• Disturbing Vanity Fair article Free Radicals by James Pogue
• Curtis Yarvin, poet
• Yarvin’s poems Christmas Poem and The Desert
• The Passage Prize
• Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams