If you have no other pressing engagement at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on 29 October, or on 3 November, or both, you might do worse than listen to Poetica on the ABC. Poetica is broadcast every week at those times, but that particular program will include a reading of one of my poems, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Beyond that, all I know is that the program is entitled Hearing.
-
Join 746 other subscribers.
Recent Comments
Top Posts
- Jennifer Maiden's Mandatory Sentence
- Niall Williams's History of the Rain and the Book Group
- About
- Yael van der Wouden's Safekeep at the book club
- Proust Progress Report 1: Getting started
- Goodbye Mollie
- The Confessions of Saint Augustine, second report
- Susan Choi's Flashlight at the Book Club
- Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty
- The Book Group and Josephine Wilson's Extinctions
Currently reading & watching- Heat Series 3 Number 21 (edited Anna Thwaites 2025)
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (James Griffiths 2025)
- Five Days, season 1 (Gwyneth Hughes 2007)
- Belvoir: A Mirror (Sam Holcroft 2023)
- The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy 1997)
- Nuremberg (James Vanderbilt 2025)
- Gone (George Kay 2026)
- Griffin: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin (Steve J.Spears 1976)
- The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho 2025)
- Auē (Becky Manawatu 2019)
Tags
ABC Alison Croggon art Australian Women Writers Challenge children's literature comics David Brooks David Malouf doggerel editing Eileen Chong Evelyn Araluen First Nations history Jeff Sparrow Jennifer Maiden journals Marcel Proust memoir non-fiction Novel NSWPLA Overland phone photo poetry Quarterly Essay science fiction/fantasy Sydney Writers' Festival The School Magazine translation-
Recent Posts
- Jennifer Maiden’s Mandatory Sentence
- The Letters of Seamus Heaney, progress report 2
- Evelyn Araluen’s Rot
- *** New Book: Thank Seven*** and other news
- The Letters of Seamus Heaney, progress report 1
- Mother Mary Comes to me, Arundhati Roy and the Book Group
- Susan Wyndham’s Elizabeth Harrower and the Book Club
- The Book Club at Elizabeth Harrower’s Watch Tower
- Garner, Hooper & Krasnostein on tape
- Bookblog #63: Read-alouds
- Nam Le’s 36 ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
- Alison Bechdel’s Spent
- Huang Fan’s Flower Ash
- Summer crime audiobooks
- 2025 End of Year List 4: Books
Archives

YAY! How exciting Jonathan. Great news. I’ll be listening.
Your copy of Thrill Seekers will soon be wending it’s happy way to your door.
Love
Edwina
LikeLike
I’ll be listening too! So excited!
LikeLike
That’s fabulous news, Jonathan. Delighted for you; I shall be listening!
-Michy Godard
LikeLike
Congratulations Jonathan! I look forward to hearing your poem on the show.
LikeLike
I’ll look forward to that, too 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks, all.
LikeLike