Poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body

Episode 9 February 05, 2020 00:49:22
Poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body
The Fremantle Press Podcast
Poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body

Feb 05 2020 | 00:49:22

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Hosted By

Claire Miller Helen Milroy Georgia Richter Brooke Dunnell

Show Notes

Bron Bateman says she makes sense of the world through writing. She is an observer of her own life, absorbing every experience with all senses so she can articulate it in poetry. She’s also the ideal interviewee. She wants to answer every question put to her, no matter how difficult, because, she says, it’s only by doing this that we can truly reach each other as writers and as humans.
In this podcast, we talk to Bron about her writing process in relation to her new poetry collection, Of Memory and Furniture. For more information her poetry collection and the works of other writers discussed in the podcast, please go to the show notes page: http://bit.ly/2UGmjif
 
We invite you all to spend some time with this wonderful poet but please take care. This podcast contains references to sexual violence, miscarriages and the largely unacknowledged experience of childbirth trauma. If this podcast raises any issues for you, and you are in Australia, contact Lifeline for crisis support 24 hours a day on 13 11 14.
 
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from the Meat Lunch EP: Songs from Floaters. Written by Alan Fyfe. Performed by Trevor Bentley (guitar and vocals – @trevormb) and Chris Parkinson (harmonica). Produced by Blake Carnaby of Nuglife studios with impresario work by Benjamin P. Newton.
Producer: Claire Miller
Mastered and edited by: Aidan d’Adhemar
 

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