Matthew Buckley Smith invited me onto his highly diverting and enjoyable poetry podcast Sleerickets to talk about poetry book design and much else besides. He’s moved some of our two hour talk into the subscriber-only Secret Show. When I finished recording, I thought “well, that went well. I don’t think I said anything that will upset anyone.” Maybe not!
He starts with some basic housekeeping about the show and begins to talk about me at 7:40.
You can listen to the show on the main feed for free by clicking the link below:
Matthew helpfully offers a list of topics covered in the show.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert
– The iTunes/Apple Podcasts SLEERICKETS page
– The cover of my forthcoming book, Midlife, designed by Daniel
– Rattle/Rattlecast/Timothy Green (the guy we’re talking about at the beginning of the show)
– Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
– Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Laud Montgomery
– A Colorful History of Judging Books by their Covers by Ernest Hilbert
– The Shocking Novels that Scared the Hell Out of America by Ernest Hilbert
– Lupercal by Ted Hughes
– Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert
– All of You on the Good Earth Ernest Hilbert
– Caligulan by Ernest Hilbert
– Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert
– Easter Wings by George Herbert
– The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
– Maxwell Perkins
– Wave Books
– Faber & Faber
– Matthew Wright
– The Philadelphia Sun Oil Building
– Jantech Services (makers of the Caligulan sign)
– Ernie’s introduction to Classic Tales of Horror
– The Alien title sequence
– Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
– Franco Salas Borquez
– Anamorphosis
– The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
– The Richard Wilbur Award
– The New Criterion Poetry Prize
– Waywiser Books
– Laid paper
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