ratbag poetics

did someone say crossover episode?? Poetry says Alice Allan is joining Wednesday night (via prerecord) to talk Pam Brown, AusPo matriarch and poet of… what exactly? Click Here is the book in question, leaving us w more negative space than answers. 

      some poetry 
      is
      very good
      at futility

         *

  it i̳s̳ futile
  but
  it’s also
 ‘something to do’

  echo  echo  echo 

~pb, a mockery

when will @sbs_australia produce an award winning emma lew noir mini series? 🔪 I keep asking ...

‘She stepped on me symbolically
by stepping on my coat.

Her general air
was one of melancholy
and lassitude.

My interest was in part aroused
by so cruel a desertion and so strange a fate.’  

🔪 emma lew crow co episode w poet guest and launnie connection: blue hazelthorn 

again i ask @sbsondemand - give us the...

solo gabfest where I go full goose mode and sniff loose poems from the shelf. rough around the edges - ‘imperfections’?

• PiO redemption tour (aka I read Kookaburra from Heide and plea ignorance at the feet of the melbintelligencia)
• Barbara Guest invisible structure
• Ken Bolton mysteries (@Dom, tessellation?)
• John Forbes speed and breakfast
• Gwen Hardwood trickster poem (read the wrong one)
• Alexis Wright carpentaria 

See omny...

This wenz, surfer-poet holly isemonger will be joining ratbag p via telephone ☎️ to discuss luke beesley’s avant gaga poems in in the photograph. !

I have so many questions… so many feelings… it’s just so meta, so surreal, so suburban, so daggy (daddy?), so much writing about writing poems that are also prose, fragments of dreams and daydreams and imaginary dreams that are maybe just fodder for the poem to nibble on?… holly help!

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it was a mixed ratbag tonight w some loosey goose behavior.

~ross gay: american! we listened to a long exuberant recording of an earnest, delightful & unaustralian poem.

~dan hogan: discussed how HAUT they r rn. also if they have a poet-activist twin?

~emma lew: …eternally a big, moody, ambient vibe. this was just a teaser for a future feature length emma lew episode. and can someone make an emma lew poem-to-short-noir/art hous...