ratbag poetics
australian poetry show. ratbag tendencies. host: david jalal motamed | @ratbag_poetics ~weds 8-9pm on edge radio ~recordings online | live broadcast ~from lutruwita//tasmania
Episodes
harry says u should quit art school. melinda might tell u to meet your maker. we're talking girlery on what might well be ratbag poetics' last live broadcast out of cold ibiza (nipaluna (hobart)).
it’s been roughly or a rough 10 years since girlery was first published in so called australia. tonight I called harry reid to talk about it and read melinda’s laudanable poems.
‘You are legitimate
No matter what the Title says...
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 moc...
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 ...
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
love poem dedications 💘 from u, the listeners, to your lovey doves Xx
14 Feb, 2024
R&B poetics
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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!
...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 h...
- gareth morgan's when a punk becomes a spunk
- tim wright's suns
- guest: dominic symes (he's seen the best memes of his generation)
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my first negative review (plz dont hate me pio)
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18 marguerite carson on [g is for] ghosts, toyah webb
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Aphrodite? Gazoontite. Tune in tomorrow for Amy Crutchfield’s The Cyprian with UTAS sr lecturer of greek classics (/poet), Graeme Miles.
He Rises: “from the chamber, pale and grand and naked./ His penis is missing and yet I see it,/ frail and awry beneath a cloud of hair.”
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joined by piratical troubadour and shaman poet, duncan bruce hose, to read and discuss the jewelled shillelagh (puncher & wattman)
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ripper of a show
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Works by:
- Mary Mussman (White Review)
- Sara M Saleh (Cordite)
- Bert Meyers (Poetry)
- Álvaro de Campos / Fernando Pessoa (Poetry)
- Noor Hindi (Poetry)
- Brigid Quirke (Cordite)
Music: Multigolf by Bravo Tounky
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guest: duncan hose
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guests: book club calandra and laura
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