Compulsive Reader talks

Compulsive Reader talks


Latest Episodes

A conversation with Meera Atkinson
February 16, 2023

Meera Atkinson reads from her book Traumata and talks about her work, the ongoing relevance of Traumata, the difficulty and the necessity of the hybrid form,  on language, blood, the patriarchy, beauty and its commodification, the power of engagement

Meera Atkinson on literature and trauma
February 16, 2023

Meera Atkinson reads from her book Traumata and talks about her work, the ongoing relevance of Traumata, the difficulty and the necessity of the hybrid form,  on language, blood, the patriarchy, beauty and its commodification, the power of engagement

Kateryna Kazimirova on Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine
December 21, 2022

One of the two editors of Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine reads from and talks about her new anthology.  Kateryna Kazimirova talks about the project and how it came together, how she chose the 27 authors, the importance of art in

Hazel Smith on Ecliptical
November 11, 2022

Poet, performer, emeritus professor, and new media artist Hazel Smith reads from and talks about her new book Ecliptical. We talk about metapoetry, multimedia, humour, eclipses, emphasis, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, and lots more.    Visit Ha

Sara Kidd on The Vegan Cake Bible
August 11, 2022

Sara Kidd joins me to talk about her new cookbook The Vegan Cake Bible. We cover such things as how Sara became the vegan cake queen, why she's drawn to cake, the extensive process she went through to create a cookbook including doing all of her own photo

Bastian Fox Phelan on How to Be Between
August 02, 2022

Bastian Fox Phelan reads from and talks about their new memoir How to Be Between. We talk about such things as speaking about the self with all of its multitudes, finding a voice, gender norms, facial hair, their nature writing, motherhood, what's next an

Beth Spencer on The Age of Fibs
June 16, 2022

Beth Spencer talks about and reads from her new book The Age of Fibs.  Beth talks about how the book came come together, about the transformation of her work through proximity, on the incorporation of popular culture, the relationship between artefac

Michelle Cahill on Daisy & Woolf
June 03, 2022

Michelle Cahill, author of Daisy & Woolf, joins me at Woollahra Gallery to read from and talk about her new book, writing through Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, the burden of the canon, giving a voice to marginalised characters, literary decoloni

Talking poetry with Yilinhi/Lorna Munro
April 13, 2022

Lorna Munro or Yilinhi is a Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman, multidisciplinary artist, poet, performer, radio and podcast host. She joins me today in the lead-up to the Sydney Writers' Festival to read some of her poems and talk about her work, her collabor

Nick Courtright on The Proofs, the Figures: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems.
March 19, 2022

Kristina Darling interviews Nick Courtright about his new book The Proofs, the Figures: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems.In Song of Myself, Walt Whitman wryly remarks about ones being proud to get at the meaning of poems, a comment highlighting