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Can poetry tell us anything new about the movies we love? Or is it the other way round? Can the blockbusters we watched in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s shed light on poems old and new? If anyone knows, it‘s poet Adam O. Davis and soi-disant film buff Colin Waters. Adam and Colin ‘met‘ when Colin recorded a podcast interview online with Adam in the autumn of 2020 about his (then) new collection Index of Haunted Houses. In the course of talking, both men discovered that they were as great fans of David Lynch and John Woo as they were of T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Under lockdown and with too much time on their hands, they started talking about the films and poems they loved and began to see connections between them. Boldly disregarding a sneaking suspicion they were recording possibly the most niche podcast in the history of podcasting, Adam and Colin have made six episodes charting their obsession, moving from exploring films made by poets to films about poets. Adam and Colin have made six podcasts charting their obsession, moving from looking at films made by poets to films about poets. In between, they look at Face/Off, Zodiac, Poltergeist and Groundhog Day, and ask if they have anything to tell us about such traditional poetic concerns as identity, poems as codes, how the past haunts the present, and drafting and redrafting (and redrafting).
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
The haunted house is the metaphor that keeps giving. Poems are sort of haunted houses (haunted by its influences) as is the USA itself (haunted by the ghosts of the indigenous and enslaved peoples who suffered at the hands of early European settlers). The two metaphors meet in Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror film Poltergeist. We get spooked by poems by Mary Oliver, Samuel Menashe and T.S. Eliot, while our host Adam O. Davis discusses his collection Index of Haunted Houses and the economic roots of haunted houses.
Guest star: Joy Priest, author of Horsepower, on Mississippi Damned.
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