My favourite poem – ever – is Dorothy Porter’s ‘Lucky’. In this episode I talk about why it matters so much to me and what it is to have someone who’ll make you coffee while you’re trying to decide where the hell to put that line break.

Show notes

• The Best Australian Poems 2007, edited by Peter Rose
• Dorothy Porter’s The Bee Hut
• A Deaf Rough Trade: Defending Poetry to ‘regular people’
• Michael Farrell’s I Love Poetry
• Audre Lorde on poetry