Oscar Upperton's guest appearances

Oscar Upperton

Better off Read

Standing Room Only

Chris Tse

Bill Manhire

Eamonn Marra

Anne Kennedy

Murdoch Stephens

Ann Shelton

Freya Daly Sadgrove

Lucy Lawless

James Gleick

Herman Melville

Dan Kois

Anne Carson

Burt Bacharach

John Gibson

Andrew Shaw

OwlTail

Transgender 19th-century surgeon Doctor James Barry is one of those fascinating characters from the past who you can't believe isn't better known. He was by all accounts an excellent physician, though obsessive and argumentative. He took part in several duels, and liked to travel with a goat. No wonder widely-published poet Oscar Upperton saw enough here to write an entire collection about the singular Doctor Barry. It's called The Surgeon's Brain. Lynn Freeman asks Oscar how he came across the story of James Barry. The Surgeon's Brain by Oscar Upperton is published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Poet Oscar Upperton and the singular Doctor Barry

The poems 'Kevin' by Bill Manhire and 'Two Thieves' from Oscar Upperton's collection New Transgender Blockbusters are the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam. 

<p>The poems 'Kevin' by Bill Manhire and 'Two Thieves' from Oscar Upperton's collection <em>New Transgender Blockbusters</em> are the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam. </p>

Ep 70 Oscar Upperton: 'Kevin' by Bill Manhire and 'Two Thieves' by Oscar Upperton