‘…& said quietly, ‘Sir, sir’ / & heroin let him leave the room.’

With thanks to Ken, Lou, Alan, Ben, Aidan, K, Cameron, Liam, Matthew & Eleanor.

• Speed, a Pastoral by John Forbes
• Ken Bolton
• The Poetry of John Forbes by Ken Bolton
• That interview with David Brooks
• John Keats
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Gustave Flaubert
• Thinking of Madame Bovary by Jane Kenyon
• Julian Barnes on the LRB podcast: Flaubert at Two Hundred
• Keats’ Endymion
• Louise Carter
• Alan Wearne
• Ben Michell’s skateboard shop
• Gig Ryan
• Death, an Ode
• A. E. Housman
• Kent St
• Matthew Buckley Smith makes the podcast SLEERICKETS
• Forbes’ Collected Poems
• Aubade by Philip Larkin
• Apophasis
• Negative capability
• James Wright
• Michael Dransfield
• Aidan Coleman
• Pam Brown
• Liam Ferney
• Famously non-drug guy K
• Cameron Clark
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• ground zero by Michael Dransfield
• Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Erik Jensen
• Eleanor’s 2022 Sealey Challenge videos!
• My mate Stu wrote the outro. Thanks, Stu.

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