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.’
~goldsome, mb

it feels like melinda was just on last wk, and the circle of life keeps going like a wheel or a cog, birth and rebirth of poems working corporate, but still finding a way (overtime) to look good doing it. omg is that tom ford?

‘A salary for naught in this frictionless sharing
a novels worth of the administrative leaking
through my veins now
I am small in the constellation of the way back machine.
I will not apply for leadership.
I will not lead into temptation.’

~Dealbreaker, Melinda Bufton

Girlery (Inken Publisch, 2014)

@chezappreciation
@melindabufton

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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

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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 award winning Emma Lew NOIR mini series australia Needs & Deserves !!! 📺🩸

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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 

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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!

‘I am to spend the day at a full stop. The cars stop, and we are given the opportunity to wash them. I find I have a sponge in my hand when I jot these thoughts down.’ -time piece, luke beesley

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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 house film series already??

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