Ep 266: Exceptions Have Been Made
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Stranger Things
The BFG by Roald Dahl
New Mountain Goats album Days
Matthew's essay Macbeth and His Problems
Kurzel's Macbeth (2015)
Cohen's Macbeth (2021)
To the Bobbydazzlers by John Forbes
Salute by James Schuyler
Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetics by John Kinsella
A Brief Outline of The History Of Australian Poetry by Alex McKeown
click here for what we do by Pam Brown
The Applestealers anthology
The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 edited by Donald Allen
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
