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Deltahead

A podcast that explores the impact that poetic imagination can have on videogame design and criticism.

Dec 19, 2020

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

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Mar 30, 2020

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"

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Jan 2, 2020

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
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James Howell, "Blood Ecology"
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