is a poet, poetry editor and writer on poetry and poetics. He has made a central contribution to experimentation in Australian poetry since the late 1990s, with a focus on decolonised geophilosophies and emergent identities. His books include Empty Texas and blue grass, and his poetry has been widely published and translated internationally, most recently in the volume In the Serious Light of Nothing (Chinese University Press Hong Kong, 2013). He was a founding editor of Cordite and coedited the anthologies Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. He has curated numerous poetry events, art exhibitions and academic seminars, has been the poetry editor for leading Australian journals Meanjin and Overland, and is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, where he teaches across contemporary literature, creative writing and Indigenous studies.
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Peter Minter: Opposing Natures:
Extraction and Proliferation in Twenty-first Century Australia Poetry. This paper was presented in the panel ‘Australian Genealogies of Active Aesthetics’ at Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry.
Peter Minter in response to Michael Farrell
I will raise some thoughts on mobile craft, suggesting transcultural alignments between Charles Olson’s projectivism and 1970s Papunya desert art, and brooding on ecopoetic form.