Ep 220: Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
Matthew's poem Ankou published in The New Stylus
Poetry Says ep 158 (start at 44:17)
Death of a Whale by John Blight
Literature in North Queensland
More Light! by A. E. Stallings
Golden Repair by Louise Carter
The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil on Philosophise This!
A Real Chill (on AI and Gwendolyn Brooks)
Wild (2014)
Secret show notes
Alice's list of Australian journals and editors
A Plague of Poets by C. D. Wright
The Other Side of Daylight by David Brooks
I Know a Man by Robert Creeley
Frequently mentioned names:
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
