1994: 'Grendel's Mother'

I will carry you home in my teeth. Two decades before the release of 'Dark in Here,' this episode features another song for singing in caves: 'Grendel's Mother.' I also discuss Peter Coviello's 'Long Players,' Toni Morrison, the 1970s conversation pit aesthetic of my reception classroom, and a self-eviscerating live take on 'Going to Georgia.'

Show notes

On the ‘more-than-human’: https://www.ideabooks.nl/9789083015293-more-than-human

The Magenta Bat4 bat detector: https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bats/magenta-bat-4-bat-detector.html

Walking tours from Wild Intrigue: https://www.wildintrigue.co.uk/mini-expeds/

On ‘Snow Songs’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200905175609/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/bitter.html#fn:johnsnow.

New Yorker article on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/losing-her-mind-crazy-ex-girlfriend-ends-with-hope

Michael Robbins on ‘equipment for living’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70208/equipment-for-living

My 1991 episode, with much discussion of Graham Greene: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1991-running-away-with-what-freud

A letter from Missouri: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hot_Garden_Stomp / https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_Priestess

John’s Tumblr post on ‘Going to Georgia’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/54507637224/hi-so-i-totally-get-that-you-dont-play-going-to

Harp magazine interview about Souled American: https://web.archive.org/web/20061031050930/http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4720

Meghan Purvis on translating Beowulf: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/06/meghan-purvis-on-translating-beowulf/

My poetry pamphlet, The Dolphin House: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/richard-o-brien-the-dolphin-house

Books

Kenneth Burke, Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke. Edited by Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber, Parlor Press, 2010.

Beowulf, translated by Meghan Purvis. Penned in the Margins, 2013.

Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in 18 Songs. Penguin, 2018.

Jonathan Dollimore, Sex, Literature and Censorship. Wiley, 2001.

Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations. Random House, 2019.