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To Outlive a Home: Poetics of a Crumbling Domestic
While these pre-federation tropes of settler colonial Australia’s multifaceted and at times contradictory pastoral modes seem to recognise something of their incompatibility with Aboriginal land, they seek their resolution from burial, rather than reciprocal encounter with Aboriginal presence.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Emily Stewart, Evelyn Araluen, Friedrich Hölderlin, John Kinsella, Jonathan Dunk, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, les murray, Melody PalomaIntroduction to Cordite 89: DOMESTIC
I invited you to lean into this DOMESTIC sphere in all its homely undoing; to rupture the masquerading shape of cosy bliss; to plant seeds and haunt with your words; to unsettle and shape what survival looks and feels like – and you did.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Natalie HarkinKathy Acker and The Viewing Room
The last time I saw Kathy Acker was in London, in July 1997. I wasn’t sure how she felt about me at that point. I had failed to drop everything to be with her in San Francisco the year before, and I had failed to make a job materialise that would have brought her to Sydney, as she wanted.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Charles Shaar Murray, Kathy Acker, Leslie Dick, McKenzie Wark, Neil BartlettTo Live There: on ‘Dispatch from the Future Fish’
‘Dispatch from the Future Fish’ is a visual poem that is deliberately referential, opening up conversations and foregrounding the notion of writing into certain traditions: those that are given to us and those that we choose. The first lines, I …
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Darlene Soberano, Eloise GrillsThe Wild Workshop: The Ghost of a Brontëan Childhood in the Life of Dorothy Hewett
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Charlotte Brontë, Dorothy Hewett, Lucy DouganExternalising the Symptom: Radicalised Youth and The Membrane
I was radicalised in my youth. I came back from a year in Paris in ’68-69 with my parents, and went to Monash University, a ‘radical’ campus when it was new. I was not a leader; I was still too young for that, but being radical was a trend.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Stephen Muecke, Tobie NathanOn Deep Breaths and Friends Forever: Im/materiality and Mis/communication in Happy Angels Revisited
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged John Durham Peters, Lu LinLetter to Anne Carson: Work of Remembrance and Mourning
‘I came to think of translating,’ you write in Nox ‘… as a room, not exactly an unknown room, where one gropes for the light switch.’ I read your words and imagine you standing in a dark room, your hand thrust forward for a handshake with Catullus’s Poem 101.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Subhash JairethIntroduction to TRANSQUEER
When we put out the call for TRANSQUEER we asked poets ‘to explore trans identities not as positions to defend but as modes of becoming and thus ways of being human’ (Joy Ladin, Trans Studies Quarterly, 2016: 640) and ‘to believe that the world is QUEER, or that oneself is, or both, [and that this] is a window of doubt through which all creative possibility comes into being’ (Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word).
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Quinn Eades, Stuart BarnesThe Kindness of Strangers: On New Zealand’s Literary Journals
If I had to pick one word to describe the current landscape of New Zealand literary journals, it would be ‘wild’. Practitioners are free to form their own outlets where they see gaps they would like to be filled and this makes for an exciting, vibrant time.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Louise WallaceIntroduction to DIFFICULT
When people say ‘difficult’ and ‘poetry’ in the same sentence they are usually referring to the experience of reading a certain type of poem.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Charles Bernstein, Holly Isemonger, Oscar SchwartzThe Unaugmented Reality of Transgender Discrimination: ‘Do more, do better’
‘Do more, do better’ is a poem in four parts that explores transgender discrimination through a hypothetical augmented reality (AR) mobile app. The accompanying inked and embroidered art pieces reiterate key themes within the poem using a medium that could be considered an analogue to tech culture’s digital: craftivism.
Posted in ESSAYS Tagged Keira Edwards-Huolohan, Rae White
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