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Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh reviews Charles Simic
That Little Something by Charles Simic Harcourt, 2008 An interesting aspect of Serbian-born Charles Simic's being chosen as the United States' 15th Poet Laureate is that Simic, partly due to his experience of a European childhood during the Second World …
Ali Alizadeh: The Suspect
Over there, in the Other land, I was gharb-zadeh, Farsi to the effect of west- smitten. Over here, in 'Our' land, I am Muslim immigrant, nomenclature with grave allusions: unemployment, anger, and unpredictable police attention. Over there I was an …
Ali Alizadeh reviews Dimitris Tsaloumas
Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Dimitris Tsaloumas University of Queensland Press, 2007 In a recent article titled 'Only Pinter remains to question authority', English literary theorist and thinker Terry Eagleton bemoans the decline of politically-engaged writing in English. …
Ali Alizadeh reviews Anthony Joseph
The African Origins of UFOs by Anthony Joseph Salt Publishing, 2006 One of the great challenges facing artists from post-colonial and/or ethnic minority backgrounds is meeting the demands of two potentially conflicting ideals. As surrogate – and often unwilling – …
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Ali Alizadeh, Anthony Joseph, Caribbean, Césaire, négritude
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Ali Alizadeh reviews Ian McBryde and Tim Sinclair
Slivers by Ian McBryde Flat Chat Press, 2005 Nine Hours North by Tim Sinclair Penguin, 2006 Two recent Australian poetry titles – one from a 'cult' adult (and at times 'adults only') poet, another from a newcomer writing for 'young …
Ali Alizadeh reviews Mohsen Soltany Zand
Australian Dream, a double CD featuring the poetry of newcomer Mohsen Soltany Zand spoken and sung by the likes of Bryan Brown, Thomas Keneally, Claudia Karvan and a host of other famous Australians, may one day be seen as a landmark of this relatively new, and seemingly promising, medium/genre of contemporary poetry.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Ali Alizadeh, detention, Mohsen Soltany Zand, refugees, spoken word
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Wandering in Wuhan
I am astounded to find that ancient and medieval poetry occupies a uniquely central presence in Wuhan's contemporary identity; that, in spite of ideological and legal issues and restrictions, new cutting-edge poetry grows across China's cyberspace; and that all of this is happening in spite of a rapid, and some might say rabid, modernisation and commercialisation.
Ali Alizadeh: Writer In Prison
Ali Alizadeh is Cordite's reviews editor.
Ali Alizadeh: Call Me Filth
Ali Alizadeh is Cordite's reviews editor.
Ali Alizadeh reviews Geoff Goodfellow
Punch on punch off by Geoff Goodfellow Vulgar Press, 2004 The concept of working-class poetry may seem like an oxymoron to the uninitiated. Isn't poetry, after all, as Harold Bloom would have it, “the crown of imaginative literature”; an elitist, …
Ali Alizadeh reviews Ouyang Yu
Much more subtle, radical and penetrative methods of undermining the authority of the dominant culture can also be found in Yu's poetry as collected in this volume. In these other poems, instead of throwing punches and hurling insults at “Australians” – whatever that tag might actually mean – the poet is reflective and philosophical, and seems much more at home discussing the complexities of human identity and investigating his own persona as an Asian-Australian, as well as an artist grappling with the “big questions”, being and mortality.
Ali Alizadeh reviews Ian McBryde
In the majority of this collection's poems, McBryde seems more interested in representing the realities of the Nazi tyranny 'as they really were' and does not aim to bridge the distance between their precedence and our presence. … These latter poems are, in my opinion, some of the most startling, daring, and interesting poems published in Australia for some time.
