Advice From an Unknown Poet

10. Promotion

How do you promote your poetry and put yourself out there without going insane? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Alice’s Substack [https://aliceallan.substack.com/] Alice’s book The Empty Show [https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/allan-the-empty-show] The AWP conference [https://awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Conference-Bookfair/Overview.aspx] Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURnrX_-v6o] by Ross Gay [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Gay] At Length [https://atlengthmag.com/]

09. Poetry

What’s the point of poetry? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Timothée Chalamet’s statement on opera and ballet [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PH4SqEuCewo] Ep 01. Fear [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/03/21/01-fear/] Asphodel, that Greeny Flower [https://poets.org/poem/asphodel-greeny-flower-excerpt] by William Carlos Williams Poetry Says Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.” [https://poetrysays.com/ep-270-jonathan-farmer-i-dont-think-i-love-poetry/] On Convention [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/convention/] by Alan Shapiro Paradise Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost] by John Milton Five Bells [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Bells] by Kenneth Slessor One Art [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art] by Elizabeth Bishop The Moose [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48288/the-moose-56d22967e5820] by Elizabeth Bishop Jane Kenyon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Kenyon]

08. Kindness

How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems? ---------------------------------------- Show notes The Dolphin [https://www.amazon.com.au/Dolphin-Two-Versions-1972-1973/dp/0374538271] by Robert Lowell Alice’s poem Bad Boys for Life [https://www.newversereview.com/2-1-alice-allan] Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life [https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Michael-Nott-Thom-Gunn:-A-Cool-Queer-Life-9780571362561] by Michael Nott The Hug [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57038/the-hug]by Thom Gunn Can Love Last? [https://www.amazon.com.au/Can-Love-Last-Fate-Romance/dp/0393323730] by Stephen A. Mitchell How to Be a Family [https://www.dankois.com/how-to-be-a-family] by Dan Kois The Night of the Gun [https://www.amazon.com.au/Night-Gun-Reporter-Investigates-Darkest/dp/1416541535] by David Carr Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz [https://www.amazon.com.au/Fire-Belly-Times-David-Wojnarowicz/dp/1608194191] by Cynthia Carr Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/savage-beauty-9780375760815] by Nancy Milford Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620407817/?tag=slatmaga-20] by Peta Leith Jonathan’s review of the Larkin biography [https://slate.com/culture/2014/11/james-booths-biography-of-philip-larkin-reviewed.html] Jonathan’s review of Patricia Lockwood [https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/patricia-lockwoods-poetry-collection-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals-reviewed.html]

07. Community Pt. 2

How do you find your people? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Bonny Cassidy [https://www.bonnycassidy.com/] Marrickville [http://cordite.org.au/poetry/notheme5/marrickville/] by Louise Carter [https://louisecarter.net.au/] Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life [https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Michael-Nott-Thom-Gunn:-A-Cool-Queer-Life-9780571362561] by Michael Nott Jonathan’s essay “A Giving of the Self”: on Thom Gunn and Courtliness [https://www.ronslate.com/a-giving-of-the-self-on-thom-gunn-and-courtliness/] Donald Hall [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hall] Melinda Bufton [https://www.instagram.com/melindabufton/] The Alderman [https://www.thealderman.com.au/] Pam Brown [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Brown] Mrs Dalloway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway] by Virginia Woolf

06. Productivity

Why do you have such a strong need to be productive? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Merlin Mann [https://www.merlinmann.com/] The 4-Hour Work Week [https://fourhourworkweek.com/] by Tim Ferris Getting Things Done [https://gettingthingsdone.com/] by David Allen The Worst Person in the World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_cV1q02cyE] (2021) Yelling at clouds [https://aliceallan.substack.com/p/yelling-at-clouds] (Alice on love hearts)