Claire Gaskin's guest appearances

Claire Gaskin

Spoken Word

Poetry Says

Jennifer Harrison

Michael Reynolds

Allen Ginsberg

Marty Smith

David Stavanger

Jennifer Compton

Robbie Coburn

James Conlon

Omar Musa

Michael Gray

Ling Wong

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Tony Birch

Kevin Pearson

Peter Davis

OwlTail

In this week's show, Waffle IronGirl chats with poet and educator, Claire Gaskin, about her recent books, Eurydice Speaks and Ismene's Survivable Resistance.

Spoken Word - Claire Gaskin

Claire Gaskin is our guest on Spoken Word this week. Fresh from featuring at the Melbourne Spoken Word &amp; Poetry Festival Closing Night, Claire talks about her first forays into live poetry in 1980s Melbourne, and how much the "scene" has changed. She reads some new and old works, and shares some insights into teaching (and marking!) poetry students, her writing process, and favourite poetic devices. We get a preview of her new work-in-progress, drawing on Ancient Greek mythology to examine patriarchy and different forms of women's resistance.Claire Gaskin’s first book was a chapbook entitled, A snail in the Ear of the Buddha, published by Soup Publications. Her collection, a bud, completed in the receipt of a Literature Board grant, was published by John Leonard Press in 2006 and shortlisted in the SA Literature Awards. Her collection, Paperweight, was published by John Hunter Publishers in 2013. Eurydice Speaks is forthcoming with John Hunter Publishers in 2019. She is working on her fourth collection with the working title of Ismene’s Survivable Resistance.