Jennifer Crone: ‘Passion and Form’:
Louise Glück’s ‘Mock Orange’. This paper was presented in the panel ‘Post-War American Poetics’ at the Historical Poetics symposium.
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Mark Byron: East-West Riprap:
Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End as Alluvial History. This paper was presented in the panel ‘Post-War American Poetics’ at the Historical Poetics symposium.
A Poem: Historical Poetics and the Problem of Exemplarity
December 13-15, 2016. The recent emergence of ‘historical poetics’ has challenged the old opposition of history and theory by focussing attention on the historicity of prosodic theories.
Sean Pryor on ‘Ideal Poetry’
What happens when we speak about poetry, rather than poems? It has long been customary, in thinking and writing about poetry, to make claims on behalf of the art form in general which few if any individual poems can justify or substantiate.
Ben Etherington: World Literature as an Ideal Concept
The argument of this paper is that world literature is an ideal concept that yet awaits realisation.
Helen Koukoutsis: Re-imagining the Afterlife:
Emily Dickinson and the Cultural Conversation of Alternative Faiths. This paper examines Emily Dickinson’s growing ambivalence towards the afterlife in the light of her exposure to faiths and philosophies (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Islam) that emerged from obscurity in nineteenth-century America.
Black and Lebo: Ellen van Neerven and Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Ellen van Neerven and Michael Mohammed Ahmad discuss the intersections between race, faith, class, gender and sexuality in contemporary Australian literature.
Paul Magee “We do not know exactly what we are going to say until we have said it”:
This paper reflects on 28 in-depth interviews with celebrated Anglophone poets, including Rae Armantrout, Alison Croggon, Brook Emery, Kenneth Goldsmith, Medbh McGuckian, G.C. Waldrep, C.D. Wright and C.K. Williams. It focuses on responses to a question that split those poets into two opposed camps.
Linda Gregerson in conversation with Kate Middleton
Esteemed American poet and critic Linda Gregerson discusses the craft of poetry with Writing & Society candidate Kate Middleton. Linda reads from her most recent poetry collection Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, followed by a Q&A.
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: