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Originally published with transcript at https://www.nickfabbri.com/bloom/paulmonklyricpoetry   In this podcast, Nick and Paul discuss: Poetry’s Touch by Professor William Waters and its influence on Paul’s approach to lyric poetry The ‘addressable you’ in poetry Reflections on communicative intimacy and the idea of authentic understanding between people in romantic or other relationships A number of Paul’s poems from his published works Lyrical Epigrams, All The Bad Things, and Delphic Deixis Paul’s relationship with Claudia Alvarez Artwork in the Chauvet Caves, and human civilization and beings across time Paul’s experience of being catfished, and the creative inspiration that this generated New infatuations, muses and poems Dr Paul Monk is a poet, polymath and highly regarded Australian public intellectual. He has written an extraordinary range of books, from Sonnets to a Promiscuous Beauty (which resides in former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s library), to reflective essays on the riches of Western civilization in The West in a Nutshell, to a prescient 2005 treatise on the rise of China in Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China.  Follow Paul on Twitter