About this episode
Poetry month has been and gone, but we have plenty more to say about poetry and poetry criticism!So we're bringing you a 2024 episode of 'Poetry Says,' wherein host Alice Allan reflects on Ben Etherington's 2015 essay 'The Poet Tasters' - a forensic and statistical critique of Australian poetry that brought Alice's career as a poetry reviewer to an abrupt stop. What kind of critical culture do you get when most critics are also poets? And how can the reviewer not break out into a cold sweat when appraising the work of friends and colleagues?FeaturingAlice Allan is a Melbourne writer and editor who brought her show, 'Poetry Says' to a close earlier this year, with its 300th episode. Further reading and listeningRead 'The Poet Tasters', Ben Etherington's 2015 essay in the Sydney Review of Books, Then read 'The Poet Eaters' - Alice Allan and James Jiang on poetry reviewing ten years after ‘The Poet Tasters.’'Poetry Says' was published from 2016 to early 2025.CreditsRegina Botros - producerSarah Gilbert and James Jiang - executive producersFully Lit is brought to you by UTS Impact Studios and the Sydney Review of Books.
