NB: Apologies to the continent and inhabitants of Australia.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Alice’s selection of contemporary Australian poetry (text of poems below notes).
– Australian by Ania Walwicz
– Australia by Laurie Duggan
– Lessons for Young Poets by John Forbes
– Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield by Luke Davies
– Guilty Pleasure (or, Where Are My Mittens?) by Melinda Bufton
– On Waking with the Pain by Belinda Rule
– Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
– A bunch of other shit. Substack lost my first draft of these notes, and now I’m lazy.
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Poetry Says by Alice Allan
