Episode 5: Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing—With Sheepherder's Hands
Cookie Hiponia — author, poet, and former lead editor of Destiny 2 and Mass Effect — joins to discuss the social simulation games Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing through the lens of poems about making and giving.
Barbara Jane Reyes, "Track: 'Dahil Sa Iyo,' Pinay (1998)"
Pablo Neruda, "Ode to My Socks (https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-socks)"
Cookie Hiponia (https://twitter.com/titacookie1974)
We Belong at Penguin Random House
Third Place Books (https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/) and Elliot Bay Book Company
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr. (http://errnum.co/)
20 Jul 2021
Episode 4: Gone Home—Descending to the Traveller
Game critic and narrative designer Michael Lutz joins to discuss Gone Home (Fullbright Games 2013) through the lens of poems about dilapidated homes and their mystique.
Walter de la Mare, "The Listeners"
Æmilia Lanyer, "The Description of Cooke-ham"
Downloadable PDF
Michael Lutz (https://twitter.com/WarrenIsDead)
Ranged Touch Twitter (https://twitter.com/rangedtouch) & Patreon (https://patreon.com/rangedtouch)
Michael's 2013 Blog about Gone Home (https://correlatedcontents.com/?p=1532)
Camouflaj Radio #39 (feat. Fullbright & James Howell)
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr. (http://errnum.co/)
19 Dec 2020
Episode 3: Contra III—Hanging on Like Death
Game developer and poet Shonté Daniels joins to discuss Contra III: The Alien Wars (KONAMI 1992) through the lens of poems about failure, loss, and love under tense circumstances.
Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
Shonté Daniels (http://shonte-daniels.com/)
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr (http://errnum.co/)
The specialest of thanks to Josh Trevett for editing and assembling the audio on this episode. It would still be in Audio Editing Hell without his efforts. Thanks, Josh!
30 Mar 2020
Episode 2: Bloodborne—Out of Her Chamber, the Moon
Critic Joshua Trevett joins to discuss Bloodborne (FROM Software 2015) through the lens of poems about dreamspace, memory, and the horrors of marriage.
Sylvia Plath, "The Applicant"
Jorge Luis Borges, "Adrogué" (Harold Morland, trans.)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Waning Moon"
Trucks Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/c/truckscast)
Trucks Episode 57 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIOh3ZeQBUs), featuring guest James Howell (apparently!)
Joshua Trevett (https://www.youtube.com/c/joshtrevett), YouTube.
Haywire Magazine (https://haywiremag.com/)
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr (http://errnum.co/).
NOTE: The Alastair Reid translation of “Adrogué” is unfortunately not available online. However, it can be read in a book.
2 Jan 2020
Episode 1: Tokyo Jungle—Red in Tooth and Claw
Poet William Wright joins to discuss Tokyo Jungle (Sony 2012) in conjunction with two poems about extinction, ecology, and the imagination.
James Dickey, "For the Last Wolverine"
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
William Wright on Amazon
James Howell, "Blood Ecology"
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr.
17 Dec 2019
Episode 0: Let Us Go Then, You and I
A short introduction to the Deltahead podcast— its host, intentions, and format. The focus is videogames and poetry.
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