The poetry bus looks fun, but… Show notes Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer The Fish and At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Finding a Long Gray Hair by Jane Kenyon Alan Shapiro Jonathan’s review of Colm Tóibín’s book On Elizabeth Bishop Departing Afghanistan by William … Continue reading "Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”"

On not being up to the task. An ode to the end of poetry by Stan Grant Erik Jensen Stan Grant leaves Q+A Tracy K. Smith The Slowdown K & I track Nam Le’s poem Abbotsford I 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do … Continue reading "Ep 269. Another ending"

O’Hara, Berrigan, Forbes, and other animals. Show notes The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes: Prick’d by Charm by Duncan Hose Ted Berrigan Ron Padgett Jorge Luis Borges Walt Whitman Berrigan’s 10 things I do every day To the bobbydazzlers by John Forbes Berrigan’s Sonnets The Personal … Continue reading "Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk"

“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…” Show notes Chocolate nemesis The Tour by pi o Getting Shirty by Lucy Van Geoff Page reviews The Tour The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer Anne Sexton Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review by Emily Temple James Dickey The Black … Continue reading "Ep 267. Writing for revenge"

Cats don’t know things, but you do! Show notes Television by Kate Middleton Isabella G. Mead Venus Without Furs by Gabrielle Everall Joshua Mehigan What is a poetry magazine for? by Victoria Moul Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business Ep 259. It means what it says David makes Ratbag Poetics Notes on “Camp” by Susan … Continue reading "Ep 266. Poetry camp"

Poetry ≠ therapy? Show notes There’s a lot of swearing in this episode. It also gets quite dark. The Friendless podcast guy What happened when I went for therapy — at a poetry retreat by Ian Belcher Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore by Kyle Chakra Kiefer Sutherland Twitch The Possible … Continue reading "Ep 265. The Internet is for poems"

The rest is still unwritten… Show notes Anyone But You (2023) The Hills Kyle & Morgan Kevin Kelly Carl Sagan Stewart Brand R. Buckminster Fuller The Geodesic dome Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance Business and Poetry by Dana Gioia Bucky’s poetry books Intuition, No More Secondhand God, And It Came To Pass—Not To Stay … Continue reading "Ep 264. A poet of the future"

“There’s a damp melancholy / in Tang poetry…” Show notes Poetry as therapy. Thoughts? Email me. Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov (on Harwood’s ‘Prize-Giving’) Elijah covers ‘At Mornington’ on Versecraft 300 Tang Poems translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman & David Lunde Li Bai Du Fu In Our Time: Tang Era Poetry … Continue reading "Ep 263. Water-dragon blues"

“We are our own.” Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Ratbag Poetics on Spotify My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest Gwen Harwood Woman to Man by Judith Wright James McAuley Eliza Cook Vincent Buckley The Harwood Memorial Fruitcake Award FUCK ALL EDITORS/SO LONG BULLETIN Gig Ryan A. D. Hope … Continue reading "Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business"

Today’s best worker takes gardening leave. Show notes Come to the launch of Kate Middleton’s Television! Asynchrony by Josephine Rowe Ep 260. with Dom Symes Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work by Louis Klee A Hunger by Petra White Ep 84. with Petra White  Ep 221. with pi o and Collective Effort The Instrument by Les Murray 925  Off the … Continue reading "Ep 261. Weird funemployment"