Episode 5: Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing—With Sheepherder's Hands
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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.
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Episode 4: Gone Home—Descending to the Traveller
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Game critic and scholar Michael Lutz joins to discuss Gone Home (Fullbright Games 2013) through the lens of poems about homes that have dissolved and become the subject of elegies.
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Episode 3: Contra III—Hanging on Like Death
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Game developer and writer 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.
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Episode 2: Bloodborne—Out of Her Chamber, the Moon
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Critic Joshua Trevett joins to discuss Bloodborne (FROM Software 2015) through the lens of poems about dreamspace, memory, and the terrifying induction of marriage.
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Episode 1: Tokyo Jungle—Red in Tooth and Claw
Deltahead
Poet William Wright joins to discuss Tokyo Jungle (Sony 2012) in conjunction with two poems about extinction, ecology, and the imagination.
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Episode 0: Let Us Go Then, You and I
Deltahead
A short introduction to the Deltahead podcast— its host, intentions, and format. The theme is poetry and videogames.
info_outlineCritic 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
Trucks Episode 57, featuring guest James Howell (apparently!)
Joshua Trevett, YouTube.
Haywire Magazine
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr.
NOTE: The Alastair Reid translation of “Adrogué” is unfortunately not available online. However, it can be read in a book.