“…the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”

Show notes

Top three Brooklyn bookshops: Unnameable Books, Troubled Sleep, Freebird Books

Reverse Cowgirl & Raving by McKenzie Wark

Whitman in Black by Ted Berrigan

R. A. Villanueva

A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr

Death, an Ode by John Forbes

This Dark Apartment by James Schuyler

“Make shit up. And that includes your life.”

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Pam Brown

I must be living twice: new and selected poems 1975 -2014 by Eileen Myles

Thomas Wyatt

Measure for Measure

Bernadette Mayer

Alice Notley

The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey

Judy Grahn

Jonathan Swift

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Gareth Morgan’s wonderful chapbook Dear Eileen,

SLEERICKETS Ep 125: The Reheater of Memories

Yeesh.

Show notes

Sorry, Neighbourhood Books

Hello to the guy at Brunswick Second Hand Books

Ep 187. Peak poetry

Noel & Russell dubbed themselves The Goth Detectives…

Meet Me In The Bathroom (2022)

LA 92 (2017)

The episode on Canberra

Cringe by ContraPoints

Europe Endless by John Forbes (towards the end of this great article)

The episodes on John Forbes

What a cool guy

Brian introduces himself to Damien Hirst

Ep 236. with Caroline Williamson

Or you could listen to Nonsense and crying, the one with Antonia Pont, the one with David Brooks, the one with Barron Field or the one with Matthew on The Mountain Goats.

If you’re in Brooklyn & you want to say hi email me: [email protected]
While I’m away you should listen to SLEERICKETS

“…you can’t sweeten me and I can’t comfort you.”

Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss by Dorothy Porter

Thank you (in order of appearance): Stu, Matthew, Shona (& Leela), Andrea, Felicity, Bec, Zara, Ethan, Anna, Liam, and Lou.

Dorothy Porter books referenced: The Bee Hut, Crete, The Monkey’s Mask, Akhenaten

Matthew’s poem Another Achilles

The biscuits were actually pretty good in the end.

Time Machines by Caroline Williamson

Sonic Poetry Festival

sick leave

Compass Pizza

John Olsen

Paul Klee

Frank O’Hara

Ken Bolton

Pam Brown

Gerry Burrowes

Michael Farrell

Newcastle Poetry Prize

Gareth Morgan

Harry Reid

Adelstrop by Edward Thomas

Matt, Matthew, Elijah

Philip Larkin

Judith Rodriguez

Tom Shapcott

Marilyn Hacker

Jennifer Compton

Episode on literary bankruptcy

The Dorothy Porter episode

Still taking Aeneas takes: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
A deeply sincere poetry podcast: SLEERICKETS

“We were never married, Dido.”

Joshua Mehigan

Last year’s Forbes eps: part 1 & part 2

Dorothy Porter

Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss

Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

The Aeneid 

Lou = Louise Carter

Christopher Brennan Award

The Monkey’s Mask

The Bee Hut

Love Poems

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature

My Tongue is My Own by Ann-Marie Priest

Deadloch

Madeline Sami

Dorothy Porter: A Tribute (ABC documentary)

David Malouf

Andrea Goldsmith

Heat (1995)

Can you believe there was a Victorian Women Writers’ Train?

Email me your Aeneas takes: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
You know who probably has read The Aeneid is that guy over on SLEERICKETS

Declaring literary bankruptcy.

Lyn Hejinian’s My Life
Jess Wilkinson
Bonny Cassidy
Language poetry
Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet
ModPo video on My Life
Dr. Elese Dowden
Ground Provisions by Tonika Sealy Thomson Stefano Harney
Matthew’s excellent interview with Shane McRae
The Brick interview with Percival Everett
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
True Stories by Helen Garner
Time Capsule by David Ireland
HEAT
Paradise Books
Sainsburys Books (Camberwell not Hawthorn, great poetry collection)
Crazy Woman by Anne Elder
Ask Me by Fay Zwicky
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination by Antonia Pont
Outro: I don’t want to play in your yard by Peggy Lee

Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
I wasn’t procrastinating I was listening to SLEERICKETS

The Last Days of Foxtrot.

Elijah’s episode on Hart Crane

Upcoming courses at the Melbourne School of Literature

Come to the launch of Golden Repair!

Ep 229. Vintage gossip

My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest

The Literature of Australia edited by Geoffrey Dutton

Evan Jones

Norman Lindsay

Vision, A Literary Quarterly

Hugh McRae

Francis Webb

Judith Wright

Rosemary Dobson

Vincent Buckley

Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor

Eps on Slessor: 109 & 199

Fix by Michael Dransfield

Drowned Person by Rosemary Dobson

Elijah & I talk Harwood

Night Flight by Gwen Harwood

Music: O! Sydney I Love You by Len Maurice, The Four of Us are Dying by Nine Inch Nails

Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
Listen to SLEERICKETS, Darling

Sorry if it’s complicated.

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Bundle O’ Books

Making Your Own Days by Kenneth Koch

My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood by Ann-Marie Priest

Cain Named the Animal by Shane McRae

A casual chat about psychoanalysis, feminism & The Voice.

Alison J Barton

Lacan

Freud

Justin Clemens

You Will Not Know In Advance What You’ll Feel by Antonia Pont

Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (‘The Voice’)

Williamstown Literary Festival

Ep 96. with Jeanine Leane

Ep 70. with Claire Gaskin

Ep 188. with Ursula Robinson-Shaw

J.K. Rowling and The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling by Contrapoints

Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com
Contrapoints but for poetry: SLEERICKETS