28. girlery. melinda bufton. w/ harry 'quit art school' reid.

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. tonig…

27. spoilt for choice. michael farrell w melinda bufton

26. click here. pam brown w alice allan

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      …

25. emma lew noir w blue hazelthorn

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.’   🔪 emm…

24. goose mode

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, tessel…

23. LUV POEM DEDICATIONS

love poem dedications 💘 from u, the listeners, to your lovey doves Xx 14 Feb, 2024  R&B poetics

22. luke beesley story poems w holly isemonger.

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 ar…

21. lucky dip - ross gay, dan hogan, emma lew

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 …

20. when a sun becomes a spunk w/ dominic symes

- 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)

19. pio's poetry tour and some overland poems

my first negative review (plz dont hate me pio)