No really. Why do we live here?

Show notes

• Lucy’s collection The Open
• Gareth Morgan’s review Shitheads: well are we doing this?
• Lucy’s interview for the NGV’s Triennial Voices
• Bella Li
• George Mouratidis
• Ocean Vuong
• Ep 174. Eleanor vs. The Ocean Vuong Phenomenon
• Figures, Lucy’s project with Laila Sakini
• The Third Thing by Donald Hall
• Nick Kyrgios
• Wangi Falls
• Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
• Evelyn Araluen’s Stella Prize acceptance speech
• Chris Wallace Crabbe’s review of John Forbes’ Damaged Glamour

Leave poetry alone!

Show notes

• John Berryman
• Dream Song 14 & Berryman’s reading in Dublin in 1967
• Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring
• Poetry Unbound
• The Slowdown
• The Poetry Society
• Windows by Louise Carter
• Ep 122. Antonia Pont: Pessimism is very imprecise
• Olio by Tyehimba Jess
• Dream Song 36 & Berryman’s reading (less drunk?)

Kate Middleton returns to talk about her role as Island’s poetry editor.

Plus, some unsolicited advice.

Show notes

• Iowa Writers’ Workshop
• Fiona Wright
• The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
• Toby Fitch
• Owen Barfield
• Linda Gregerson
• Journals! Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit, Australian Book Review
• SLEERICKETS Ep. 14: M*****F***** of the Arts
• Robert Lowell on seals (honestly v. cool animals)
• Music: Lights On A Leash by CIVIL CIVIC

90210. Dickens. Buffy. Henry James.

Show notes

• Kate Middleton’s books Fire Season, Ephemeral Waters & Passage
• A poem from Television
• Luke Perry
• ‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles by Van Badham
• Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow’s podcast Call Your Girlfriend
• Scott Speedman
• Sarah Manguso
• Poets on Teaching by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• Hoa Nguyen
• Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
• Peter Steele
• Red Doc> by Anne Carson
• Dan Beachy-Quick
• The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
• Kate’s review of Bella Li’s Argosy
• Beyond 2000
• Giant misstep You Need to Calm Down

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

Pam Brown is back to talk new work, readings, myths, prize culture & the NBN.

Show notes

• Stasis Shuffle
• Collected Works bookshop
• Ep 104. with Pam
• Sappho’s
• Ken Bolton
• Amelia Dale
• A.J. Carruthers
• Michael Farrell reads at Readings
• Laurie Duggan
• Pam’s review of Sydney Spleen by Toby Fitch
• The Jindyworobak Movement
• Let’s Get Lost by Pam, Ken & Laurie
• Maya Deren
• Click here for what we do which won the ALS Gold Medal
• Pam’s recent poem MOOT, the other t-shirt
• Intro/outro: Rails by Bing and Ruth

Beware the Alley of Prosody.

Show notes

• Ep 150. Nerding out with Eleanor
• BookTube
• Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother
• Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
• Popular musician Beyoncé
• Emily Berry’s Unexhausted Time
• Exceptional song Love Again by Dua Lipa
• Thin Air by Linda Gregerson
• Outro: Happy Cat Disco – Delight In New Rules (Dua Lipa vs. Maethelvin)

Following on from last week, David Latham from fund the arts shares some hair-curling statistics about arts funding as it stands in the lead-up to the federal election. If you want to know more about the campaign, you can find them on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

Show notes

• The Creativity in Crisis report
• Ben Eltham
• Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy
• The Strays by Emily Bitto
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Intro/outro: Lights On A Leash by CIVL CIVIC

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• Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter
• 2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry by Bonny Cassidy
• Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy
• Australia Council for the Arts
• The Stella Prize
• A message from the Australia Council CEO
• Can Australian literature survive another round of arts cuts (panel at Readings with Emily Bitto, Peter Rose & Clare Forster)

In/significance in poetry.

Show notes

• I Was Minor by Olena Kalytiak Davis and her interview on the Commonplace podcast
• Poem by Weldon Kees
• The Disappearing Poet by Anthony Lane
• Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton – Lecture 3
• Milton’s Ad Patrem
• George Green’s Summer of ’72