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Unread 05-03-2021, 03:03 PM
Matthew Buckley Smith Matthew Buckley Smith is offline
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Eratosphereans!

I don't generally post here, but I lurk often and always with interest, and I've felt connected to Eratosphere ever since meeting a number of you a decade ago at West Chester. In the intervening years, I’ve edited, reviewed, corresponded with, and admired from a distance many more. If there is any social medium that feels like home to me, it's this one. Actually, it's the only one I still check in on anymore.

So, I write to let you know I'm starting a podcast. It’s called SLEERICKETS, and it’s about poetry. Sort of. Mostly. My goal is to approximate the experience of talking about poetry over drinks with a gossipy friend. Over the course of the first four episodes, Rhina, Aaron, Maryann, and Alicia all come up in the conversation, and I imagine this community will play no small part in the episodes to come.

I'd love for you all to listen, but I also trust this group to let me know when I get something wrong, or just to help fill in my many gaps in knowledge. I'll doubtless continue lurking here from time to time, but the best way to reach me with complaints, corrections, or ideas for future episodes is through sleerickets@gmail.com or through my website, matthewbuckleysmith.com.

SLEERICKETS is now available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. If you like it, please click "subscribe." If you really like it, leave a rating and a review. The first two episodes are live, and a third is coming soon.

Mostly, I hope the show will entertain you, either in its own right or as an occasion for witty takedowns by Michael, Sam, and Quincy. Either way, I'll feel I've made a contribution.

Thank you all for so robustly populating this house I occasionally haunt.

Yours as ever,
Matthew
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This sounds exciting. There's not much I enjoy more than good conversation around the art of poetry. I'm starving for it, actually. There's not much around, that I'm aware of anyway.

Mark McDonnell posted a podcast by an English guy (his day job is standup comedy) whose name I can't remember (Frank?) who has a genuine love of and aptitude for understanding poetry. He speaks unpretentiously and emphatically about those poems and poets he loves and it is a thoroughly enjoyable listen. (I can't believe I let that one slip away from me — Maybe Mark can remind me?)

I'm in. I'll check it out. Thanks.


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Unread 05-04-2021, 02:06 AM
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So the emphasis is American formalist poetry, and more specifically (even more) American formalist poetry centred around past and present members of Eratosphere? Is your focus just on formalism, out of interest?
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Unread 05-04-2021, 04:17 AM
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The wonderful Frank Skinner podcasts can be found here
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Unread 05-04-2021, 09:55 AM
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Thanks, Matthew, and congrats on the new project. I enjoyed No. 2. (Ew, that sounds terrible out of context.) Will go back for No. 1 (ditto) when I have time.

A few additional thoughts on Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "Halloween," which I hadn't encountered before your podcast:

I like the way that the identity rhyme in S1L1's "by" gives S1L4's "Goodbye" just enough extra emphasis that that word is still not too far from the surface of my mind by the time I get to "the King of the Dead" in S3L4. And on a second reading, after having found a some sort of death reference in the fourth line of the rest of the stanzas, I go back looking for the one I missed in S2, and there it is--"We sit up late, and smoke...."

(Yes, I go back to look, because I'm a visual person. Thanks for providing links on your website to all the texts you reference. Mwah!)

S3's "...real men in real boxes never do / Haunt houses" makes me think of the giant, boxlike television of my own childhood, and the anchormen and reporters (always male) who kept bringing the Vietnam War into our living room.
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So the emphasis is American formalist poetry, and more specifically (even more) American formalist poetry centred around past and present members of Eratosphere? Is your focus just on formalism, out of interest?
W T!

Thanks for writing. The emphasis is poetry--at least for now. And my own skewed experience means I'll probably retain something of a formalist perspective. But really, I'm a bit of a dilettante in all my interests, so don't be surprised if the scope drifts a bit. The fourth episode, for example, is something of a miscellany, covering Grimms' Fairy Tales, Albert Camus, ASMR, porn, and The Queen's Gambit, among other things. Though it ends on a Bill Coyle poem, so as I said before, I can't imagine Eratosphere will ever be too far from the center of things...
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W T!

Thanks for writing. The emphasis is poetry--at least for now. And my own skewed experience means I'll probably retain something of a formalist perspective. But really, I'm a bit of a dilettante in all my interests, so don't be surprised if the scope drifts a bit. The fourth episode, for example, is something of a miscellany, covering Grimms' Fairy Tales, Albert Camus, ASMR, porn, and The Queen's Gambit, among other things. Though it ends on a Bill Coyle poem, so as I said before, I can't imagine Eratosphere will ever be too far from the center of things...

Ah, I see. I do admire that variety! I'll try to make time for a listen.
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This sounds exciting. There's not much I enjoy more than good conversation around the art of poetry. I'm starving for it, actually. There's not much around, that I'm aware of anyway.

Mark McDonnell posted a podcast by an English guy (his day job is standup comedy) whose name I can't remember (Frank?) who has a genuine love of and aptitude for understanding poetry. He speaks unpretentiously and emphatically about those poems and poets he loves and it is a thoroughly enjoyable listen. (I can't believe I let that one slip away from me — Maybe Mark can remind me?)

I'm in. I'll check it out. Thanks.


_____

Found it: Frank Skinner.



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Thanks, Jim (and everyone else, too--I'm still working out the mechanics of posting replies)! I'll check out the Frank Skinner podcast.
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Hello Matthew

I have listened to all 3 of your podcasts and genuinely enjoyed them. You have an engaging voice and it’s good hearing you think aloud. You are very well read and have well argued opinions. The podcasts are long and sometimes you are long-winded. But it’s fun to hear you getting lost in an eddy and dragging yourself back to the main flow. It would help me if they were shorter and better signposted. I would also like to hear more poems. I will definitely continue to listen.

And at some point are you going to explain why “Sleerickets”?

Joe
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Hello Matthew

I have listened to all 3 of your podcasts and genuinely enjoyed them. You have an engaging voice and it’s good hearing you think aloud. You are very well read and have well argued opinions. The podcasts are long and sometimes you are long-winded. But it’s fun to hear you getting lost in an eddy and dragging yourself back to the main flow. It would help me if they were shorter and better signposted. I would also like to hear more poems. I will definitely continue to listen.

And at some point are you going to explain why “Sleerickets”?

Joe

Thanks for the feedback, Joe, and thanks for listening!

I suspect the content--and structure--of the podcast will continue to drift a little as I find my rhythm. The next two episodes are very different from each other--the first is a sort of whimsical miscellany and the second (GarageBand permitting) is a focused three-way conversation about poetry anthologies (one of the guests being a fellow Eratospherean). But I will definitely keep your remarks in mind in the weeks to come.

As for "sleerickets," it's just my younger daughter's corruption of "secrets." She (mis)uses it as a singular noun to refer to any whispered speech, and since I have to record at night when the girls are asleep, the word seemed somehow apt. And I figure the nonsense title makes googling the show a little easier. Thanks for asking!

M.
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