All episodes
Ep 200. Anti-insights
Ep 199. Answered prayers
Ep 198. Felicity Plunkett on the poetry editor’s invisible work
Ep 197. Fury
Ep 196. James Jiang: A certain claustrophobia
Ep 195. Harry Reid: Poetry rocks
Ep 194. Learning to read
Ep 193. Prize fight
Ep 192. Erik Jensen: Intimacy and trespass
Ep 191. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 2
Ep 190. John Forbes, a Pastoral pt. 1
Ep 189. Tracy Ryan: Infinite pie
Ep 188. Ursula Robinson-Shaw: Beast Mode
Ep 187. Peak poetry
Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy
Ep 185. Big sad poetry friendship
Ep 184. Gareth Morgan: Vagabond
Ep 183. Poets on film (a tragedy)
Ep 182. Nicholas Powell on taking cheeky seriously
Ep 181. Midwinter Day
Ep 180. Lucy Van on privacy, prizes, truth, and tennis
Ep 179. Solace and trash
Ep 178. Why do poetry journals keep rejecting me?
Ep 177. Kate Middleton on the death of Luke Perry
Ep 176. Autumn Royal on the inescapable
Ep 175. Pam Brown returns
Ep 174. Eleanor vs. the Ocean Vuong Phenomenon
Ep 173. Follow the money
Ep 172. The Wizards of OzCo
Ep 171. People you’ve never heard of
Ep 170. Kent MacCarter: The publisher’s Kuiper Belt
Ep 169. No one missed poetry readings
Ep 168. Cassandra Atherton: On finding your people
Ep 167. Just like Scorsese
Ep 166. Rachael Nielsen: “Quote unquote real poetry.”
Ep 165. “This is why people hate poetry!”
Ep 164. Thabani Tshuma: “It’s just gonna work out.”
Ep 163. A map, a memory, a seal
Ep 162. Rilke vs. Mondays
Ep 161. A deadly sin
Ep 160. “What’s a poet?”
Ep 159. Shastra Deo: Pressure, persona & the ‘I’
Ep 158. Matthew Buckley Smith: Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Ep 157. pov ur the hot ex
Ep 156. Quitting.
Ep 155. Luke Beesley: There is no puzzle
Ep 154. The big sleep
Ep 153. Jennifer Compton: Poetry as Cassandra
Ep 152. Nonsense and crying
Ep 151. Peter Goldsworthy: ‘There are 25 million poets in this country.’
Ep 150. Nerding out with Eleanor
Ep 149. Maddie Godfrey on teaching & joy
Ep 148. Loki Liddle: ‘There are no Aboriginals in On The Road’
Ep 147. Dan Hogan: ‘Somewhere a landlord is kissing another landlord’
Ep 146. Maxine Beneba Clarke: ‘Art does not live on art alone.’
Ep 145. John Kinsella on community & empathy
Ep 144. Poetry Month preview
Ep 143. Impossible Machine
Ep 142. Ep-i-tha-la-mi-ums
Ep 141. ‘You have to be brave.’ Thuy On’s Turbulence
Ep 140. The poetry of insomnia
Ep 139. Ella O’Keefe on process, offcuts and going slow
Ep 138. Workshop.
Ep 137. Christian Bök’s poetic moonshot
Ep 136. Bella Li: ‘What went we out into this wilderness to find?’
Ep 135. I’m feeling very iambic today
Ep 134. Justin Clemens: The inbox at the end of the world
Ep 133. Michael Aiken: Working outside the lines
Ep 132. Anne-Marie Te Whiu: Weaving a moment
Ep 131. Fiona Wright: Beyond the narrative map
Ep 130. Letter from Melbourne
Ep 129. The Empty Show
Ep. 128 Oscar-worthy poems
Ep. 127 Liam Ferney: ‘Poetry is a galaxy’
Ep 126. Michelle Cahill: A flowering of voices
Ep 125. Letter from Melbourne
Ep 124. Gayatri Nair reports from Western Sydney
Ep 123. ‘What was terrible was simple.’
Ep 122. Antonia Pont: ‘Pessimism is very imprecise.’
Ep 121. ‘Are all poets depressed?’
Ep 120. Ellen van Neerven: Love poems, comfort and writing ‘Throat’
Ep 119. Hypochondria vs Poetry
Ep 118. Alison Whittaker on First Nations poetry and unanswerable questions
Ep 117. David Stavanger on community, self-care, burnout and dog minding
Ep 116. Daniel Swain: Straight men, tarantulas and institutional absurdity
Ep 115. Michael Farrell & the swimming pool of poetry
Ep 114. On publication
Ep 113. Rejection.
Ep 112. Laurie Duggan: ‘Fragments, fragments, thefts and blunders.’
Ep 111. Poems that got me through 2019
Ep 110. Elena Gomez on Marxist feminism and Friday Night Lights
Ep 109. The frustration of Five Bells
Ep 108. Bonny Cassidy on image, history and reckoning
Ep 107. Joanne Kyger’s triple rainbow
Ep 106. David Brooks on opening
Ep 105. A found poem for spring
Ep 104. Pam Brown: Skeptical optimism in a post-human age
Ep 103. Finally reading Donald Hall
Ep 102. Chris Wallace-Crabbe on ‘Rondo’
Ep 101. Letting go of poetry books