Between the Leaves
Episode four: Body“Or call my pain
A skirmish in the whole
Tremendous conflict between body and soul”Hosts Ellen and Hermina on poems that explore the contested space that is the body; how it’s seen, represented and experienced.
Between the Leaves
Episode four: Body“Or call my pain
A skirmish in the whole
Tremendous conflict between body and soul”Hosts Ellen and Hermina on poems that explore the contested space that is the body; how it’s seen, represented and experienced.
Featured poets
Lesbia Harford
Grace Nichols
Ellen van Neerven
Elizabeth Campbell
Hermina Burns
Robin M. Eames
Poems (in order of appearance)
Nichols, Grace. “Invitation”. The fat black woman’s poems. London: Virago, 1984.
Harford, Lesbia. “Periodicity”. Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets by Llewellyn Kate, Llewellyn Kate and Susan Hampton, 1986
Campbell, Elizabeth. “In public, gawping at the kid”. Error, John Leonard Press, 2011
M. Eames, Robin. “Anabasis”. Westerly, 2019.
Burns, Hermina. “Skin in History”. Bite of a Bluebottle Bristlebird Press, 2019.
van Neerven, Ellen. “Dysphoria”. Overland no. 232 Spring periodical issue, 2018.
Credits
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns
Music (Intro) Loop Lady – 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara
Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham
Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock
Recording Squeak E. Clean Studios, the Voice Plant
Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
