Poetry Says

Poetry Says

By Alice AllanArts
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Poetry Says episodes

  • Ep 299. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 2

    Paradise Lost: Books VII-XII.

    Show notes

    Paradise Lost by John Milton

    Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton with Professor John Rogers

    Justin Clemens

    George Mouratidis

    Men and their Boring Arguments by Wendy Cope

    Elijah Blumov

    An excerpt from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

    Pajama Quotient by Linda Gregerson

    Jonathan Farmer

    Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence

    Ep 290. Australian Gothic

    Some marginalia and a margin butterfly!

    SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy?

    Gender is the extent we go to in order to be loved by D. Perez-McVie

    Ep 292. The silly season

    The Four Noble Truths

    Ram Dass

    The University of Melbourne endowment is approx. AU$1.287 billion

    The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

    Songs & clips from this and last episode

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    Sister show: SLEERICKETS

    2 hr 6 min
  • Ep 298. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 1

    Paradise Lost: Books I-VI.

    Show notes

    Paradise Lost by John Milton

    Ep 234. Not reading My Life

    Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton

    Justin Clemens

    Ep 265. The Internet is for poems

    Northrop Frye

    SLEERICKETS secret show Ep. 108 How Are We Happy?

    Epode II by Horace

    That Spotify playlist

    Pyrrhics

    Spondees

    Songs & clips from this episode

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    1 hr 45 min
  • Ep 297. Everything I know about publishing poetry

    People like poems about bees.

    Show notes

    Interviews with Kent McCarter (Cordite), Jess Wilkinson (Rabbit), Kate Middleton (Island), Toby Fitch (Overland), Terri-ann White (Upswell), and Sarah Holland-Batt (the laureateship)

    Trello

    David Allen

    Jubilat

    Seizure

    David Brooks

    Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry edited by Bonny Cassidy & Jess Wilkinson

    Michael Farrell

    Flash Cove

    The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Awards

    Varuna

    Bundanon

    BigCi (the place with the magnetic walls)

    Slow Loris

    The Canberra Times

    Red Room Poetry

    Griffith Review

    Brooklyn Poets

    Joshua Mehigan

    Meanjin

    32 Poems

    Literary Matters

    Matt Wall

    Matthew Buckley Smith

    Elijah Blumov

    New Verse Review

    Matthew reads Bad Boys for Life on Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism

    Louise Carter

    Jonathan Farmer

    Chill Subs

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics

    Against the myth of the garret.

    Show notes

    Love Streams (1984)

    A Plague of Poets by C. D. Wright

    Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

    Christian Wiman

    SLEERICKETS Ep 180: AMA 2025

    The legendary La Mama Theatre

    My Tongue Is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest

    Bass Strait

    Vincent Buckley

    Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest

    Selections from Keats’ letters

    Thom Gunn

    Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott

    Yvor Winters

    Elijah’s interview with Timothy Steele

    To Yvor Winters, 1955 by Thom Gunn

    On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks

    The Wild One (1953)

    On the Move by Thom Gunn

    Insomniac City by Bill Hayes

    Lament by Thom Gunn

    Suzemebachi no thank you

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Ep 295. The Webb Moment

    Your favourite poet’s favourite poet.

    Show notes

    Francis Webb

    Francis Webb Collected Poems edited and introduced by Toby Davidson

    More resources on the Webb centenary: more publications and live readings to come!

    Judith Wright

    Les Murray

    Gwen Harwood

    Callum Park Hospital for the Insane

    The Bulletin

    Douglas Stewart

    Angus & Robertson

    Norman Lindsay

    A Drum for Ben Boyd

    Rosemary Dobson

    Robert Lowell

    A Death at Winson Green by Francis Webb

    Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell

    The 1969 Collected

    Herbert Read

    Simon Armitage

    James McAuley

    Damaged Men: The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart by Michael Ackland

    Five Days Old (published here in The Bulletin)

    Toby’s ABR tribute essay The gold standard: The centenary of Francis Webb

    Toby’s book Christian Mysticism in Australian Poetry

    Terri-ann White

    Toby discusses Webb on the To The Lighthouse podcast

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

    “I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions.”

    Show notes

    SLEERICKETS Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss

    praise song by Nate Marshall (link to Marshall’s reading at the top)

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

    Anaphora

    Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats by Kaveh Akbar

    Poetry Magazine December 2024 & January/February 2025

    Rabbit 39: Mutiny & 40: Extinction

    Overland

    Tess Ritchie

    A Girl and Her Fireplace by Megan Denton

    A Convolution of Astral Forces by Erika Meitner

    Filling Station by Elizabeth Bishop

    The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley

    Christopher Brennan

    Limerence by Steven Leyva

    Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin

    My poems in New Verse Review

    Tar River Poetry

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    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep 293. Global overshare

    Is the cake a metaphor?

    Show notes

    Episode playlist

    Ep 257. on love songs

    Ep 219. on The Mountain Goats

    Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker

    The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)

    The Beatles: Get Back

    Made of Cocaine

    Vauxhall and I

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 292. The silly season

    The road not taken looks real good now.

    Show notes

    Send us your AMA questions! sleerickets[at]gmail.com

    Christmas beetles

    Flippys

    D. Perez-McVie’s Gender Is The Extent We Go To In Order To Be Loved

    Slow Loris chapbooks

    Rabbit Poetry

    Siân Vate’s feels right

    Ep 288. on Shikishi

    Isabella G. Mead

    A Room of One’s Own: On Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation by Leanne Ogasawara

    A Quiet Sorcery by Ovidian

    i carry your heart with me i carry it in by e e cummings

    Ep 290. Australian Gothic

    Adam Ford

    Charles Sturt

    Voss by Patrick White

    Alone Australia

    Wake in Fright (1971)

    Seven Versions of an Australian Badland by Ross Gibson

    Twin Peaks

    Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

    Bob Katter

    Metropole by Ken Bolton

    Ep 181. on Midwinter Day

    Ep 284. with Louise Carter

    HEAT

    TA RA RA by Urusula Robinson-Shaw

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    54 min
  • Ep 291. Bathroom seashells

    Poets as adults.

    Show notes

    Francis Webb

    The Saturday Paper

    The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair by Lauren Michele Jackson

    How America Embraced Gender War by Jia Tolentino

    Ep 254. with Antonia Pont

    Mr Bookman visits Seinfeld

    Substack

    Atticus

    Poetry Unbound’s post Art and coalition

    On Being

    Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots and his post on Wendell Berry’s 1993 I

    Evan Williams

    SLEERICKETS Ep 13: Against Hope

    Randell Jarrell’s 90 North

    Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon

    Trashy yoga doco Breath of Fire

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    51 min

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