Pocketry Presents A Poetry Podcast

Episode 16: Heavy Into Silence by Es Foong

Listen to Es Foong read the poem Heavy Into Silence, from her chapbook, Margin Doodles Volume 1, and then learn all about rhyme and how to craft a title for your poem. You can find Es and Waffle Irongirl, her digital and performance persona, at www.waffleirongirl.com.

Episode 15: An Interview with Dominique Hecq - Part Two Winning Awards

Content warning: cancer, death, grief

Dominique Hecq returns to Pocketry Presents to share her experience of entering competitions and winning awards. She talks about writing in French and English, responsibility to the people you're writing about, the liberating effect of time, testing other audiences, the gamble and thrill of entering competitions, judges and the judging process, choosing competitions, feedback and review, rejection, vanity vs validation plus great tips for entering competitions.

Episode 14: An Interview with Dominique Hecq - Part One The Creative Process

Content Warning: grief, death, SIDs

Belgian-born poet and scholar, Dominique Hecq talks about silence and sunshine, prose vs poetry, the materiality of language, writing through the night, sequences and triptychs, getting stuck, rhythm vs images, sounds and movement, hearing what the poem wants, first drafts and mess, crossing borders of art and language, loss and grief, languages and translation, appropriation, imagination and creativity as well as tips for revising poetry and generating ideas. Dominique's recent collection, Tracks, can be purchased from Recent Work Press www.recentworkpress.com/product/tracks/.

Episode 13: What We Know by Kevin Brophy

Warning:  this episode contains mature themes and parental guidance may be required

In this episode, we hear Kevin Brophy read his poem What We Know from the collection, This Is What Gives Us Time. We look at how the poem is structured and learn about the technique of anaphora used in the poem. Kevin's latest book, In This Part of the World, was published by Melbourne Poet's Union in 2020 and can be purchased from Brunswick Bound Bookshop.

Episode 12: An Interview with Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Part Two Getting Published

Content Warning: addiction, recovery and self-harm

In this honest and far ranging episode of Pocketry Presents, Scott-Patrick Mitchell takes great care in dealing with the issues surrounding the publication of their debut collection, Clean, forthcoming with Upswell Publishing in 2022. They talk about the Port Augusta train station and the Indian Pacific, the stars and writing your own creation myths, the magic of writing, coming up with your own language for poetry, homophobia and the publishing world, stage jam and sonically burlesque fringe shows, duty of care, gender identity and expression, grief and letting go, the ebb and flow of success and failure, the dangers of comparison and reading as a tool to develop care and compassion.

Episode 11: An Interview with Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Part One The Creative Process

Poet and spoken word artist, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, talks about page poetry and spoken word, memorisation and fragments, writing routines and the critical voice, movement as an editing tool, art as inspiration, writing for journal themes, LQBTA+ identity activism and archive, ecological disaster and climate change, always learning, honouring a poem's ecology, recognising the ummms and errs of your writing and a strategy to overcome writer's block. Scott-Patrick's debut collection of poetry, Clean, is forthcoming in 2022 with Upswell publishing.

Episode 10: A Guide To Getting Published

Editor of The Pocketry Almanack, Indrani Perera, gives indispensable advice and practical tips for emerging poets wanting to get published in literary journals. You’ll discover the biggest mistake made by emerging poets when sending in their work for publication and learn what you can do to make sure your work is read by the editors of literary journals.

 

Indrani Perera is a Sri Lankan/German/Australian poet living on unceeded Wurrundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). She has been shortlisted for the Jean Stone Award and the Nillumbik Prize and is the author of the poetry collections Defenestration and pas de deux. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in journals in Australia, India and the USA. Visit www.indraniperera.com/subscribe.html to sign up for Indrani's The Poet's Express e-mail newsletter and get rocket fuel for your creativity!

 

Episode 9: An Interview with Melizarani T Selva - Part Two Performing

Queen of improvisation, Melizarani T Selva is back to discuss audience reactions and investment, writing pantoums, earning a feature set, the open mic animal, curating a tight set, comedy, Draupadi and the Mahabharata, adding movement, making mistakes and forgetting lines, improvisation and the ephemeral nature of performance, sharing before performing, tailoring a set and the greatest disservice you can do to a performer. You can follow her on socials @melizaranitselva.

 

Episode 8: An Interview with Melizarani T Selva - Part One The Creative Process

Spoken word artist and poet, Melizarani T Selva on ending poems, secret newsletters, collectors' notebooks, a perpetual state of writing, why she'll never admit to writer's block, validity of bullet points, metaphor generators, permission to write, advice for BIPOC writers and the hamster wheel of grief. Buy her book, Taboo, from Lit Books in Malaysia - www.litbooks.com.my/product/taboo/ - or subscribe to her email newsletter - www.melizarani.substack.com.

Episode 7: Coburg by Angela Costi

We hear Angela Costi read her poem Coburg and learn about stanzas and end stopped lines. You can read the poem in Angela's latest collection of poetry, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New published by Spinifex Press and you can find her on Facebook at AngelaCostiPoetics.