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In this episode we will have some discussion about childhood sexual abuse and trauma. So, please do keep this in mind and take care of yourselves when deciding to listen to this content.   Anders Villani is a Melbourne-based poet, writer, teacher and PhD candidate in Creative Writing. Anders is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and lives with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  His new collection of poetry is called Totality. In Anders own words, this collection is a creative inquiry into the childhood sexual abuse he experienced and its ramifications for his adult life.For his PhD research, Anders is exploring how poetry represents personal trauma – in particular the tension that exists for artists between the ‘tellable’ and ‘untellable’ aspects of traumatic experience. When were talking on email prior to this interview, Anders wrote  that a quote from Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery was at the heart of his PhD research, which is focused on how poetry represents trauma. This quote is: 'the conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of personal trauma.'  Anders discusses this in this episode as well as how poetry is a survival tool, how he discovered he had PTSD and what that has meant for him and the meaning of his new poetry collection.Anders’ poetry collection TOTALITY  is published by RECENT WORK PRESS - and you can find out more about Anders at his website andersvillani.comIf you have been affected by anything discussed in this episode please contact:Lifeline on 13 11 1413 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people)Blue Knot on 1300 657 380Bravehearts on 1800 272 831Hosted by Karenza Louis-Smith, CEO ermha365. Produced and co-hosted by Emily Webb, ermha365 Advocacy and External Communications Advisor.ermha365 provides support for people with complex mental health and disability in Victoria and the Northern Territory.ermha365 acknowledges that our work in the community takes place on the Traditional Lands of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and therefore respectfully recognise their Elders, past and present, and the ongoing Custodianship of the Land and Water by all Members of these Communities.We recognise people with lived experience who contribute to GET REAL podcast, and those who love, support and care for them. We recognise their strength, courage and unique perspective as a vital contribution so that we can learn, grow and achieve better outcomes together.

In this episode we will have some discussion about childhood sexual abuse and trauma. So, please do keep this in mind and take care of yourselves when deciding to listen to this content.    <a href="https://www.andersvillani.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anders Villani</a> is a Melbourne-based poet, writer, teacher and PhD candidate in Creative Writing. Anders is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and lives with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  His new collection of poetry is called <a href="https://recentworkpress.com/product/totality/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Totality</a>. In Anders own words, this collection is a creative inquiry into the childhood sexual abuse he experienced and its ramifications for his adult life.For his PhD research, Anders is exploring how poetry represents personal trauma – in particular the tension that exists for artists between the ‘tellable’ and ‘untellable’ aspects of traumatic experience. When were talking on email prior to this interview, Anders wrote  that a quote from Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery was at the heart of his PhD research, which is focused on how poetry represents trauma. This quote is: 'the conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of personal trauma.'  Anders discusses this in this episode as well as how poetry is a survival tool, how he discovered he had PTSD and what that has meant for him and the meaning of his new poetry collection.Anders’ poetry collection <a href="https://recentworkpress.com/product/totality/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TOTALITY  is published by RECENT WORK PRESS</a> - and you can find out more about Anders at his website <a href="https://www.andersvillani.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">andersvillani.com</a> If you have been affected by anything discussed in this episode please contact:<ul><li><a href="https://www.lifeline.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lifeline</a> on 13 11 14</li><li><a href="https://www.13yarn.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">13 YARN</a> on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people)</li><li><a href="https://blueknot.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Knot</a> on 1300 657 380</li><li><a href="https://bravehearts.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bravehearts</a> on 1800 272 831</li></ul>Hosted by <a href="https://www.ermha.org/executive-leadership-team/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karenza Louis-Smith</a>, CEO ermha365. Produced and co-hosted by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-webb-ab1b0a18/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Webb</a>, ermha365 Advocacy and External Communications Advisor. <a href="https://www.ermha.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ermha365 </a>provides support for people with complex mental health and disability in Victoria and the Northern Territory. ermha365 acknowledges that our work in the community takes place on the Traditional Lands of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and therefore respectfully recognise their Elders, past and present, and the ongoing Custodianship of the Land and Water by all Members of these Communities. We recognise people with lived experience who contribute to GET REAL podcast, and those who love, support and care for them. We recognise their strength, courage and unique perspective as a vital contribution so that we can learn, grow and achieve better outcomes together.

Exploring personal trauma through poetry with Anders Villani

In this episode, Spoken Word's newest member, Waffle IronGirl, speaks with poet Anders Villani about his new collection, Totality, published by Recent Work Press. The book is an exploration of childhood trauma, violence and masculinity, compassion and mythology.

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Sarah Holland-Batt

Felicity Plunkett

As the world realigns itself in the wake of a global pandemic, ABR turns its thoughts to the various forms – individual and institutional, material and more intangible – that recovery may take. In 'Poetry in times of recovery', we asked a number of Australian poets to share the works that best capture how recovery can look, sound, and feel. Today’s episode builds on the popularity of our ‘Poetry in troubled times’ episodes, released in 2020. We bear in mind, of course, that these are still troubled times, as recent events in the Middle East and the intractable problems (to do with sovereignty and borders) back home well attest. Poetry may not be the only balm we need at this juncture, but in ‘the nightmare of the dark’, as W.H. Auden once put it, the poet’s ‘unconstraining voice’ nevertheless remains a place where ‘the healing fountain starts’. All readers, poems, and times each reader appears:  Sarah Holland-Batt – Adam Zagajewski, 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World' (1:25) Anders Villani – Jamaal May, 'There Are Birds Here' (3:32) and Tomas Tranströmer 'Kyrie' (5:47) Felicity Plunkett – Tracy K. Smith, 'An Old Story' (7:01) Louis Klee – Ralf Webb, 'Love Story: The Back Pages' (8:40) and excerpt from Lucy Hutchinson’s translation of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (10:49) Jenny Harrison – Eavan Boland, 'Lullaby' (13:39) Peter Goldsworthy – Eugenio Montale, 'Forse un mattino' (15:31) Caitlin Maling – Theodore Roethke, 'The Waking' (16:41) Judith Bishop – Tomas Tranströmer, 'Face to Face' (19:14) Thuy On – Thuy On, 'Beautiful Mess' (21:03) John Kinsella – Emily Brontë, 'No Coward Soul is Mine' (22:09)   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the world realigns itself in the wake of a global pandemic, ABR turns its thoughts to the various forms – individual and institutional, material and more intangible – that recovery may take. In 'Poetry in times of recovery', we asked a number of Australian poets to share the works that best capture how recovery can look, sound, and feel. Today’s episode builds on the popularity of our ‘Poetry in troubled times’ episodes, released in 2020. We bear in mind, of course, that these are still troubled times, as recent events in the Middle East and the intractable problems (to do with sovereignty and borders) back home well attest. Poetry may not be the only balm we need at this juncture, but in ‘the nightmare of the dark’, as W.H. Auden once put it, the poet’s ‘unconstraining voice’ nevertheless remains a place where ‘the healing fountain starts’. All readers, poems, and times each reader appears: <ol> <li>Sarah Holland-Batt – Adam Zagajewski, 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World' (1:25)</li> <li>Anders Villani – Jamaal May, 'There Are Birds Here' (3:32) and Tomas Tranströmer 'Kyrie' (5:47)</li> <li>Felicity Plunkett – Tracy K. Smith, 'An Old Story' (7:01)</li> <li>Louis Klee – Ralf Webb, 'Love Story: The Back Pages' (8:40) and excerpt from Lucy Hutchinson’s translation of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (10:49)</li> <li>Jenny Harrison – Eavan Boland, 'Lullaby' (13:39)</li> <li>Peter Goldsworthy – Eugenio Montale, 'Forse un mattino' (15:31)</li> <li>Caitlin Maling – Theodore Roethke, 'The Waking' (16:41)</li> <li>Judith Bishop – Tomas Tranströmer, 'Face to Face' (19:14)</li> <li>Thuy On – Thuy On, 'Beautiful Mess' (21:03)</li> <li>John Kinsella – Emily Brontë, 'No Coward Soul is Mine' (22:09)</li> </ol> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Poetry in times of recovery | Ft. Sarah Holland-Batt, Anders Villani, Felicity Plunkett, and more