is the author of Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan). His latest book of poetry is Cocky’s Joy (Giramondo).
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Michael Farrell: Australian Unsettlement
Drawing on his just published scholarly book, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945, Dr Michael Farrell demonstrates a range of poetics employed by various Australian writers since (un)settlement:
Michael Farrell: Break or Connection?
Species Catalogues and the Conceptual Episteme in Australian Poetry. This paper was presented in the panel ‘Pan-Tropics Poetics’ at Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry.
Michael Farrell: Craft: An Unsettled Concept
My paper looks at four different kinds of ‘craft’, in the context of white settlement and Australian poetry, with examples of issues and poems for each. The writing issues I attend to are: noun use and abuse; narration; the end of a poem; positive and negative space.
Michael Farrell: Unbeautiful Relations:
‘Waltzing Matilda’ and Colonial Poetics. This paper was presented in the panel ‘Australian Poetics’ at the Historical Poetics symposium.