Essays: Bonny Cassidy becomes more intense, Donato Mancini gets incumbant, Kent MacCarter relives being freight and Eddy Banaré mines the life of Jean Mariotti (in French)
Interviews: Ali Alizadeh caffeinates with Paul Kane
Features: Angela Costi invokes the Phoenix, Ian Wedde curates a chapbook of contemporary New Zealand poetry (with Selina Tusitala Marsh, Anne Kennedy, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond, John Newton and Sam Sampson) and Diana Arellano and a team from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg present Calliope, a prototype avatar in the Muses of Poetry project (featuring Kate Lilley, Jane Williams, Carol Jenkins and Jo Langdon)
Featured Artist: Chris Haughton
Translations: Steve Brock presents Chilean Mapuche poetry in three languages, Luis Gonzalez Serrano translates dissident and wronged Salvadorian, Roque Dalton and Catherine Rey translates New Caledonia’s Jean Mariotti, the first English translations to be published of his poetry
Cordite Scholarly: Paul Magee – Poetry as Extorreor Monolothe: Finnegans Wake on Bakhtin
Recent Reviews: Keri Glastonbury, Pete Spence, Jessica Wilkinson, Mathew Abbott, Best Australian Poems 2012, Lesley Synge, Anthony Lynch and Bonny Cassidy
In the introduction to the collected poems of Francis Webb, Toby Davidson observes that the immediate influences behind Webb’s poems ‘do not supersede his locales.’ Webb’s poems are informed by a topophilia, a love of place and its ambient lore, a topographical attentiveness to detail that includes not just spatial but also temporal resonances. Davidson has inherited this attentiveness to space and place, and his debut collection, Beast Language, attempts a topo or ecopoetics that traverses a spectrum of geographies, mapping the Australian continent from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific seaboard, attempting not only terrestrial readings but taking cosmological measurements as well.
Paul Kane is the Professor of English and Co-Associate Chair of English at Vassar College in the Hudson Valley, 75 miles north of New York City. In addition to being a prolific poet and scholar of American literature, he is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Australian poetry. He studied at the University of Melbourne as a Fulbright Scholar to Australia in 1984-85, and has, since 2002, served as Artistic Director of the annual Mildura Writers Festival. He is also the poetry editor of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, and was recently named General Editor of the Braziller Series of Australian Poets. I caught up with Kane over a couple of coffees in Melbourne recently, and the following interview was the result of their conversation.
