How are poets harnessing poetry’s power to address urgent issues? How does poetry intersect with other domains? What are the fruits of these intersections? And the new frontiers for poetry?
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In the context of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, poetry occupies a central role in the expression of trauma and injustice, offering a critical means through which to speak truth to power...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article reflects on the author’s poetry project on the life of Anne Brennan, daughter of Australian poet Christopher Brennan and figure of bohemian notoriety in early 20th century Sydney
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article considers how poetry can articulate dementia as historically and culturally nuanced and how poetry may also be able to navigate states of difficulty and precarity.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis essay responds to The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler, a poet who lists imaginary proposals for artworks that he might like to see created on his behalf.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article outlines the development of the Singapore Poetry Writing Month (SingPoWriMo) digital community, organised around an annual month-long poem-a-day, prompt-based writing challenge carried out on Facebook.
This article focuses on three contemporary Australian poetry publications, all of which navigate concepts of anonymity, authenticity, the (un)returned gaze, and the experience of physical alienation in digital spaces.
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The WoW Project – Words on Wheels; Words on Water – is a public transport poetry venture in development, seeking to bring poetry to Sydneysiders commuting to work...
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In this article, I describe science calligrams in the contemporary context with reference to both my own pieces and works by poets who have inspired me.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleIn this article, I investigate the way multiple contemporary poets incorporate the medium of television and its many genres into their poems.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis essay will argue for the relevance of the ‘neobaroque’ in relation to recent examples of Australian poetics.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article takes its point of departure from Paul de Man’s observation that ‘whenever romantic attitudes are implicitly or explicitly under discussion, a certain heightening of tone takes place...'
- Special Issues: scholarly articleAs part of my early PhD research I began, in a fairly intuitive way, writing poetry in response to other texts...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleSpeech recognition software can be used as a compositional tool in poetry and constitutes a form of homophonic translation where phonemes are substituted for each other based on near similarity...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper outlines the rationale for, and tells the story of, the collaborative development of a general first-year poetry subject whose pedagogical foundations lie in an Aboriginal epistemological framework...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleEnvironmental poetic proselytising has never before been so imaginatively and politically calibrated by so many First Nations poets...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article conducts a spatial reading of Laurie Duggan’s place-based approach to poetic collage in Australia, focusing on poems which span four decades of the poet’s career.