Haiku

right write your writings write your own uh your own towel and and do it in uh what are those things called like those where it has to be like five

Oh, like haikus? Haikus, yeah.

I have one I got to dust off.

That's one of them.

Haikus from the

underground.

Haikus from the underground.

Yeah, you see? That's brother.

I didn't know what to expect from a podcast launch, you know, and actually it would have been so easy for Angela and Simon just to have released the episode without actually, you know, having an event or anything.

But I was so grateful to have that event as a kind of marker of our... of our success I guess and it's something that I guess I'm used to like when I do an exhibition there's normally a preview and that's a really nice way of kind of celebrating the work that you've done because you've put in so much work it kind of is a point of you're able to kind of look back and go oh wow this is what I've done And I felt like the launch event was that for us.

I agree, yeah.

I didn't know podcast launch events were a thing at all, but I loved it.

And I was the only one that was neurodivergent and talking about kind of yeah that all my bladder problems and things and how interoception has affected that and being able to like work together with a community you know the rest of the kind of presenters tended to be talking about things like IBS and um other you know stomas and all of those kind of experiences and actually it's a chance for me to say well the whole like there's a whole other neurodivergent community that actually might also be experiencing similar similar problems and to come together you know that's yeah um To be allies.

Yeah, wonderful.

And then I was involved in an exhibition which was all about kind of language and the diaries were part of that.

And then I did an in-conversation event.

Yeah, but what it's going to do is be a survey of the literary landscape and the best poems that are actually readable and memorable and that center the reader and focus on actually having poetry be a positive, pleasant experience.

And so the idea, what we did is we took a central group that we picked, which was Boris Dralyuk of Nimrod, Melissa Balmain of Light, George David Clark of 32 Poems, Paul Miller of Modern Haiku, David Wongsic of New Ohio Review, Mark Danowski of One Art, Jen Koretnik of Swim Every Day, and Steve Knepper from New Verse Review.

We got together as a panel and then selected another 40 or so magazines to add to this list and invite in.

And each editor is picking their poem that meets that criteria the most, the one that they want to be remembered most from their journal, the one that they think a general audience will appreciate the most.

dude i'll be voting for the uh for the aussies all the way the wobblies please as for the hoaxers james mccauley would end up publishing several more volumes of his own books as previously mentioned he became a devout roman catholic in his later years and he would continue to be a staunch anti-communist all his life he died at the age of 59 of cancer in 1976 in hobart harold stewart took a different path after the war and scandal he became into buddhism the only conventional job after the war was a part-time bookseller he moved to japan in 1966 where he taught english and studied shin buddhism he too would publish poetry just haikus which is really convenient for him i guess i don't understand it Yeah, thank you.

Haiku to you too.

Harold would pass away in 1995 of semi-ate in Kyoto, which I think is where Dennis Sullivan lives right now.

The legend of Ern Malley still continues, right? After he got over the humiliation, Max decided to publish the poems again as they were in 1961, almost 15 years later.