Writing and Society Research Seminar Series
Female Orphan School, Conference Room 1 (EZ.G.23), WSU Parramatta South Campus
Friday 9 March, 1pm-3pm

In this special Poetry & Poetics event, three writers will hold a critical conversation about three poets: Danish innovator Inger Christensen, Caribbean-Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip, and Canadian poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. Join three of WSU’s leading researchers in poetics – award-winning poet and translator Dr Peter Boyle, critical theorist Dr Jason Tuckwell, and poet and editor Emily Stewart – as they perform a collaborative reading of three contemporary writers, while reflecting upon their own creative and research practices.

Peter Boyle brings to the panel Inger Christensen’s iconic work alphabet (1981). He will reflect upon traces of Christensen’s influence within his own new book-length poem Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness, due for publication late in 2018. Jason Tuckwell will discuss excerpts from M. NourbeSe Philips’ influential work of archival poetics Zong! (2006). Via critical readings of key modernist texts, he will ask how Philips repurposes modernist textual methods away from l’art pour l’art and towards explorations of race, archival decolonisation, and the poetical work of mourning. Emily Stewart will address Lisa Robertson’s “Fourth Walk” from Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture (2003; revised ed. 2010), speculating on the contemporary significance of urban walking as a mode of creative and critical praxis.

The event will be facilitated by Dr Kate Fagan as part of the WSU Poetry and Poetics research node. It will conclude with readings of original work by all three panel participants, followed by afternoon tea. Free event; all welcome.

Related Authors

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  Peter Boyle

  He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Ghostspeaking (2016), Towns in the Great Desert (2013) and Apocrypha (2009)

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  Kate Fagan

  is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies within the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the Convenor of the English Major, and a member of the WSU Writing and Society Research Centre.

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  Emily Stewart

  is the poetry editor at Giramondo Publishing. Her first poetry collection Knocks was published by Vagabond Press in 2016.

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  Jason Tuckwell

  has a forthcoming monograph entitled Creation and the Function of Art: Techné, Poiesis and the problem of Aesthetics (Bloomsbury Philosophy, 2017);