Poetry Says
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ep 300. Happiness
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some other beginning’s end. Show notes Thank you!
Ep 299. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 2
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paradise Lost: Books VII-XII. Show notes Paradise Lost by John Milton Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton with Professor John Rogers Justin Clemens G...
Ep 298. Strangers in Paradise Pt. 1
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 2...
Ep 297. Everything I know about publishing poetry
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People like poems about bees. Show notes Interviews with Kent McCarter (Cordite), Jess Wilkinson (Rabbit), Kate Middleton (Island), Toby Fitch (Overla...
Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 SLEERIC...
Ep 295. The Webb Moment
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your favourite poet’s favourite poet. Show notes Francis Webb Francis Webb Collected Poems edited and introduced by Toby Davidson More resources on ...
Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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 (lin...
Ep 293. Global overshare
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Er...
Ep 292. The silly season
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 G...
Ep 291. Bathroom seashells
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poets as adults. Show notes Francis Webb The Saturday Paper The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair by Lauren Michele Jackson How America Embraced ...
Ep 290. Australian Gothic
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I am on an aggrieved island…” Show notes Voss by Patrick White Britannica’s definition of the Gothic novel Penguin’s definition of American...
Ep 289. Alpha Sandpit
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The pirate’s life for me. Show notes Starter episodes! (Let me know if I forgot one you think I should include.) WFH (a rat bastard poem) by Harry R...
Ep 288. Cuckoos, moons, sleeves, and silence
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pass the butter. Show notes Antonia! Princess Shikishi Emperor Go-Shirakawa The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite & Geoffrey Bownas St...
Ep 287. Live Poets Society
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Giving the kids their boring magic. Show notes Jonathan Farmer Matthew Buckley Smith Church Going by Philip Larkin Why Poetry is Making a Comeback in ...
Ep 286. The wrong crowd
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Storytime: I was a teenage Maxx fan. Show notes Once again, the crimson rosella The Maxx Old Gregg Eat Carpet Ep 267. On nemeses The Artist’s Way by...
Ep 285. Martin Duwell: An honourable activity
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tending the thousand flowers. Show notes Martin Duwell Australian Poetry Review Jacket interview: Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffrey Poacher M...
Ep 284. Louise Carter and the Gilded Door
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“No quitting.” Show notes Louise Carter Ester Perel Previous episodes with Lou: 100, 80 and 8 Lou’s poems Marrickville and Windows Lou’s book ...
Ep 283. Tool time
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Or, More Lasting Than Monsters. Show notes Ep 265. The Internet is for poems Matthew Buckley Smith The Silver Swan by Gwen Harwood New Verse Review S...
Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On tour in Oz! Show notes Rae Armantrout Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis Michael Farrell In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound...
Ep 281. David Brooks returns
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I seem to be a little bit less burdened by myself.” Show notes The Poetry Detective Ern Malley David Brooks’ books include Walking to Point Cle...
Ep 280. It started recreational
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
…ended kinda medical. Show notes Isi Unikowski Music and Mystery: Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career by Christian Wiman The Oblong Plot ...
Ep 279. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt. 2
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“…You shiver on a tram.” Episode(s) playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Part 1 of this episode Wilsons Pro...
Ep 278. A good start
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Tranter vs. Tennessee Williams cage match. Show notes Ep 277. with George Mouratidis SLEERICKETS secret show John Tranter Tranter’s collection ...
Ep 277. George Mouratidis: Jelly and sewing machines
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On not having to deal with arseholes or put up with bullshit. George Mouratidis is published by Soul Bay Press Kalliope X Ep 273. Submit Ep 196. with ...
Ep 276. Ania Walwicz’s Australia pt. 1
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You big ugly…” Show notes Episode playlist The episodes on Forbes and Porter Australia by Ania Walwicz Venus Bay Surf diatom blooms (that brown...
Ep 275. The blue smoke of the mind
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shout out to Penola! One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Mary Gilmore John Shaw Neilson The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella The...
274. Affinities and attentions
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“So many dead mutants with grudges…” flight animals by Bronwyn Lea Hyperbole by Belinda Rule Apollo Bay by William Fox That secret show episode ...
Ep 273. Submit.
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Y O U R L O S S Fully half my brain is Spaced The Grinder Chill Subs Rabbit Jessica Wilkinson Bonny Cassidy The Empty Show Michael Farrell Elijah Blum...
Ep 272. Eva Birch: What’s the tea?
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. ‘Bombala Boss’: Harry Reid in Conversation with Michael Farrell The Melbourne School of Literature on Insta...
Ep 271. Love again
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s something wrong with your priest. The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry Our Horace episode on SLEERICKETS Getting Horace Across by J....
Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The poetry bus looks fun, but… Show notes Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship That Peculiar Affirmative by Jona...
Ep 269. Another ending
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 L...
Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 267. Writing for revenge
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…” Show notes Chocolate nemesis The Tour by pi o Getting Shirty by Lucy Van Geoff Page ...
Ep 266. Poetry camp
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 265. The Internet is for poems
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Ep 264. A poet of the future
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 263. Water-dragon blues
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There’s a damp melancholy / in Tang poetry…” Show notes Poetry as therapy. Thoughts? Email me. Ep 262. with Ann-Marie Priest Ep 222. Grilli...
Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 Pries...
Ep 261. Weird funemployment
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 260. Dom Symes: Trojan Horse of emotion
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stop rock climbing, interrogate your life. Show notes Dom Symes’ book I Saw the Best Memes of My Generation Ken Bolton Thom Gunn Mick Jagger and Dav...
Ep 259. It means what it says
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sha-la-la-la, la-la-la, la. Show notes Sharks’ Teeth by Kay Ryan Ratbag Poetics Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Past Present F...
Ep 258. Grace Yee: I did not anticipate this
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Questioning the promised land. Show notes Chinese Fish by Grace Yee The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Grace’s interview with Liminal Magazin...
Ep 257. Heartbreak Voltron
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The movie with Jason Alexander.” Show notes Ep 215. The collapsing building Ep 235. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 1 Here’s a playlist of all ...
Ep 256. Antarctica
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My tribute to The Big Chill. Show notes Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday by Rachel Zucker In The Park by Gwen Harwood Jane Kenyon The Black Art by An...
Ep 255. Loose Unit
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Penguin Random House… Show notes Avenue Bookstore Faber & Faber’s “liberty” poetry diary, normal poetry diary & journal Feud: Capote vs. ...
Ep 254. Antonia Pont: Good for nothing
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Productivity & wellness tips for poets! Show notes Antonia Pont The article we discuss isn’t published (yet), but I’m sure we can slip you a copy ...
Ep 253. Stake night
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Now, it’s all up to the judges. Show notes Love poem dedications coming up on Ratbag Poetics! My interview with Matthew about his beautiful book Mid...
Ep 252. Geoff Page: The good, the bad, and the spondee
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vale Alex Phemister. Show notes Geoff Page’s latest books 101 Poems (2011-2021) and Penultima Ep 251. The Poet Eaters The Poet Tasters by Ben Etheri...
Ep 251. The Poet Eaters
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Look at this ‘graph. Show notes My interview with Aaron Irwin The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington milk and honey by Rupi Kaur Kate Baer Peter Craven...
Ep 250. A preference for abandon
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My sign is vital, my hands are cold. Show notes I have a new mic setup and can hear I need to use my pop screen. I will. I’m so over you, LRB podcas...
Ep 249. Just because it’s Christmas
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
(And at Christmas you tell the truth.) You’re the best, John! Email me: poetrysayspod[at]gmail.comSister show: SLEERICKETS
Ep 248. You
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Staring at the sky, spinning in a circle. Ep. 246. on Spotify Wrapped etc. Grant Theft Auto IV Dorothy Porter John Forbes The New Princeton Encycloped...
Ep 247. An absolutely ordinary poem
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alice gets really angry at a flower. Show notes The fucking flower An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray The Sydney Push The Barron Field Exper...
Ep 246. Desperate reassessment
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three parts lunatic, one part yahoo, and one part potentially human. Show notes Spotify Wrapped Greek Tragedy by The Wombats Australian Poetry Now edi...
Ep 245. Joel Deane: Making art in Sparta
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alice is very angry at Bill Harwood. Show notes Joel Deane’s recent books Judas Boys and Year of the Wasp The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize Ken Babst...
Ep 244. Tradition and the Individual Snakebite
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The chances of death are very small.” Show notes Ep. 200 Anti-insights The Monkey’s Mask is available at Gertrude and Alice A primer of English...
Ep 243. Pigs in the ocean
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inbox Zero. Show notes James Schuyler This Dark Apartment Ken Bolton & Peter Bakowski’s recent books Nearly Lunch, The Elsewhere Variations, On Luck...
Ep 242. Joshua Mehigan: Otherness people
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TV party tonight! Show notes Joshua Mehigan Brooklyn Poets Josh’s poems Cold Turkey & The Cement Plant The Optimist (2004) & Accepting the Disaster ...
Ep 241. Jon Sands meets a fan
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Solving the mystery of The Poetry Gods. Show notes The Poetry Gods Hosts Jon Sands, Aziza Barnes & José Olivarez Buy U A Drank by T-Pain Urban Word N...
Ep 240. Hooroo to all that
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“…the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.” Show notes Top three...
Ep 239. Lunch with Eileen Myles
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Make shit up. And that includes your life.” Show notes Pam Brown I must be living twice: new and selected poems 1975 -2014 by Eileen Myles Thomas...
Ep 238. Awkward.
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yeesh. Show notes Sorry, Neighbourhood Books Hello to the guy at Brunswick Second Hand Books Ep 187. Peak poetry Noel & Russell dubbed themselves The ...
Ep 237. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 2
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“…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, ...
Ep 236. Sincerely, Caroline Williamson
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The biscuits were actually pretty good in the end. Time Machines by Caroline Williamson Sonic Poetry Festival sick leave Compass Pizza John Olsen Paul...
Ep 235. Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas pt. 1
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We were never married, Dido.” Joshua Mehigan Last year’s Forbes eps: part 1 & part 2 Dorothy Porter Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss Purcell’s...
Ep 234. Not reading My Life
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Declaring literary bankruptcy. Lyn Hejinian’s My LifeJess WilkinsonBonny CassidyLanguage poetryRon Silliman’s The AlphabetModPo video on My LifeDr...
Ep 233. A pleasure out of hell
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 232. How to do it
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry if it’s complicated. Truncated show notes Bundle O’ Books Making Your Own Days by Kenneth Koch My Tongue is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood b...
Ep 231. On the couch with Alison J Barton
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Ep 230. Matt Wall is sick of being angry
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I made one cut in the intro because a pause was too long i’m so sorry Show notes The I Hate Matt Wall Poetry Podcast Matt’s interview with me The ...
Ep 229. Vintage gossip
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Messrs Poetry on what is excellent, bad, fatal, useless, tame, “fluxive” & the best. Show notes Ep 228. with Ken Bolton The New Australian Poetry ...
Ep 228. Ken Bolton: Generations telling each other jokes
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Head first into the beautiful accident.” Ken BoltonKen’s poem Beginning at Basheer’s Coffee ShopThe Australian Experimental Art FoundationImp...
Ep 227. Alison Flett: I don’t ken if I belong
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hindley Street via Scotland. Show notes Goodwood BooksAlison Flett’s latest book Where We Are Alison’s poems Adelaide, I Dream You and InsectsFrie...
Ep 226. Kinds of heartbreak
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fake laughter in the rooftop bar. Fresh Air by Kenneth Koch With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum The S...
Ep 225. Inside Upswell Publishing
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Please, even against the odds, think about this as a long-term prospect.” UpswellGleebooksElizabeth JolleyTerri-ann on The GarretThe immortal Col...
Ep 224. I can’t dance
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show me your pasodoble! Show notes None other than Matt WallLook at all those chickensElijah’s show VersecraftThe Case for Metre and Rhyme: Part 1 ...
Ep 223. Peter Bakowski: The gleaning process
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plus, the poetry workshop comes to Berghain. Peter BakowskiThe Gleaners and I (2000)Anne SextonRobert FrostSchopenhauer sez: “One should use common ...
Ep 222. Grilling Elijah Blumov
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I love you, Leigh Sales. Show notes Elijah’s podcast Versecraft Gwen Harwood Harwood’s poem Prize-Giving The Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy The ...
Ep 221. pi o and Collective Effort
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Anarchists have to write their own history.” Show notes The WAYWARD FORWARD exhibition Collective Effort Press Π.O.’s books include 24 Hours, ...
Ep 220. Mostly horizontal
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Convalescence correspondence. Show notes Causeway (2022) Ep 215. The collapsing building Ep 219. This is scripture Liam Ferney’s article ‘I wrote ...
Ep 219. This is scripture
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Buckley Smith returns to talk about The Mountain Goats. Show notes Playlist for this episode The Last Waltz (1978) New Yorker interview: John ...
Ep 218. Maggie Ball on poetry competitions
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s just like the Oscars! Maggie Ball’s books include her new collection BobishPuncher & WattmannThe Compulsive ReaderModPoI Love Poetry by Micha...
Ep 217. To know is not to cure
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve got 500 in twenties… Show notes The Swimmer by John Cheever The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lange City Middle by The National Voss by Patri...
Ep 216. Mindy Gill: Seeing multiplicities
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What is the thing that is blocking the person from engaging with the work itself?” Show notes Mindy Gill’s article Till ‘real voices’ wake ...
Ep 215. The collapsing building
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I heart Canberra. For anyone who ever hung out at Impact without ever buying anything, caught the 333 to Civic instead of going to school, met a frien...
Ep 214. Stephen Edgar, man on the moon
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I just persisted.” Show notes Stephen Edgar Where the Trees Were Lost in the Foreground Stephen’s new and selected The Strangest Place won the ...
Ep 213. Hot and bothered
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Ana is an inexperienced college student tasked with interviewing enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey…” Show notes Look at all these straightfo...
Ep 212. Paul Kane: The view from the volcano
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A different take on the Aussie renaissance. Paul Kane’s book Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity Judith Wright Gwen Harwood Paul is awarde...
Ep 211. The gaps I mean
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emails! Fame, errors, legacy, glamour. Once again, The Lyre in the Pawnshop by Fay Zwicky Jan Zwicky You Must Believe in Spring by Bill Evans Antilame...
Ep 210. Barron Field has entered the chat
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Come on, boffins! …show notes?! The Barron Field Experience is Justin Clemens, Adam Bartlett & Bryan Cooke Plato loves the drama Justin Clemens’ ...
Ep 209. Funny ha ha
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“And who are you here with tonight?” Show notes SLEERICKETS Horace chatJudith Lucy vs MenClose Readings Live: The Waste LandThe JindyworobaksA Mid...
Ep 208. Lucy Dougan: Hedge school
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wagging with the Westralians. Show notes Lucy Dougan’s books Monster Field, The Guardians & White ClayGiramondo Publishing Andrea ArnoldWasp (2003)F...
Ep 207. Ask Me Anything
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hang on, I’m telling a story. To recap: I like Philip’s poems All hail Queen Joan Do not sign up for Letterboxd under any circumstances Yes I watc...
Ep 206. Small magic
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbit, where’d you put the keys, girl? Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmail.com A Primer of English Versification by James McAuley Jo...
Ep 205. Winnie Dunn: The realities of Australia
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“It seemed like such a far-fetched notion that I could make something of myself as an artist…” Show notes Ask me anything! poetrysayspod[at]gmai...
Ep 204. Being bad
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m young and strong and nothing can touch me!” Show notes Berryman by W. S. Merwin Ep 202. Who makes the poem? What Pragmatism Means by Willia...
Ep 203. Sarah Holland-Batt: The poems themselves
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Skepticism, change, and poems from Long Bay Gaol. Show notes Sarah Holland-Batt’s collections The Jaguar, The Hazards & Aria Fishing for Lightning M...
Ep 202. Who makes the poem?
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
And who really pulled the trigger on JFK? Hey, come see me at Lit Balm this weekend (5pm Saturday US East Coast time/9am Sunday Australian East Coast ...
Ep 201. Haunted house of poetry
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I need to go water my plant now. Starter episodes: Tracy Ryan, Antonia Pont, Peak Poetry, Thuy On Sister podcast SLEERICKETS Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ...