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• Archives Fine Books
• My interview with Shastra Deo
• Helen Allan
• John Blight
• Two absolute icons

Just before New Year’s I got to meet up with Shastra Deo in Brisbane. She spoke about expectation, regret, her award-winning collection The Agonist, how that book continues to follow her, and the weird, frustrating tension between poetry and the industry around it.

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• Shastra’s interview with Terri Ann Quan Sing for Hello Poet
• Eileen Chong
• Evelyn Araluen’s Dream Sequence piece As We Know It
• Shastra’s poem गुम; or, Lexical Gaps
• Shastra’s interview with Elena Gomez for Liminal & my interview with Elena
• Mindy Gill
• Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today & my interview with editor Alison Whittaker
• The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
• Plath’s bee poems
• Shastra’s poem I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
• Jill Jones
• Liam Ferney 
• Justin Clemens
• Bronwyn Lea
• Sharon Olds’ poem I Go Back to May 1937
• Felicity Plunkett’s book Vanishing Point
• Tegan Webb
• Rory Green
• Zenobia Frost’s poem Meditation on the Body
• Wilfred Owen’s Duce Et Decorum Est
• Rae White’s Twine poem How to Haunt

Matthew Buckley Smith is a poet who makes a podcast called SLEERICKETS.

You’re welcome.

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• SLEERICKETS Ep 33: Pudding Day
• More starter episodes: Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts: (includes discussion of Ben Lerner’s The Lights), Ep 24: Musée des NSFW Arts (includes discussion of Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn) & Ep 13: Against Hope (my favourite).
• Shane McCrae
• Frederick Seidel
• William Logan
• Christopher Childers
• Justin Clemens
• Ryan Wilson & Matthew’s essay about his friendship with Ryan
• Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist
• Joshua Mehigan
• Terrance Hayes
• Anseo by Paul Muldoon
• Kevin Young
• Joshua Beckman
• Katy Lederer
• Jonathan Farmer, his journal At Length & Matthew’s dramatic monologues published there, including ‘Ankou’
• Austin Allen’s article Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse

Turns out I just really like pop music.

p.s. Since recording this I’ve learned that A. E. Housman rushed out his Last Poems hoping straight boy crush Moses Jackson would read it. Girl, same.

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• No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
• Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
• Mibu Tadamine
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• The In Our Time ep on Fitzgerald’s bitter motivations for translating said Rubaiyat
• Anne Sexton’s For My Lover, Returning to His Wife (still no clue what an ‘aggie’ is)
• Ouyang Yu’s Self Publishing
• Morgan Parker’s Now More Than Ever, When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed Next to Me and Falls Asleep & Magical Negro
• Chats with Justin Clemens & Laurie Duggan
• Laurie’s The Epigrams of Martial
• pov ur anne sexton

Giving up on poetry, the luxury of regret, and relapse. With help from Liz Taylor & Van Johnson.

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• Jennifer Mills’ piece On Quitting Poetry & her books
• Alison Croggon’s Giving up poetry & her New and Selected Poems 1991-2017
• Adrienne Rich
• Rimbaud
• Vauxhall & I
• Finding Neverland
• Berryman by W. S. Merwin