Audio of ‘Nonfiction Poetry: Performing the Real’

By | 7 March 2013

This panel from the NonfictioNow Conference 2012 – at RMIT University and in partnership with Iowa University and Barbara Bedell, the Copyright Agency Limited, the Wheeler Centre and ABC Radio National – explores and discusses the potential of ‘nonfiction poetry’ to address, represent and perform real world content. The four members of the panel read and discuss their unique experiments with nonfiction poetry, from historical (auto) biographical work to programmatic experiments. During each performance, as well as through discussion amongst the panel members and with the audience, this panel aims to interrogate the poetic medium as a valuable means through which to access new performative, personal and philosophical dimensions in writing (about) the real world.

Nonfiction Poetry: Performing the Real | (1:06:24)
Stuart Cooke, Benjamin Laird, Jill Jones and Jessica Wilkinson

[audio:http://itunesu.its.rmit.edu.au/sites/default/files/itunesmedia/NonfictionPoetry.mp3|titles=Nonfiction Poetry: Performing the Real – Jessica Wilkinson, Stuart Cooke, Jill Jones, Benjamin Laird]
© nonfictionLab / NonfictioNow Conference 2012

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Jessica L Wilkinson has published three poetic biographies, Marionette: A Biography of Miss Marion Davies (Vagabond 2012), Suite for Percy Grainger (Vagabond 2014) and Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine (Vagabond, 2019), highly commended for the Wesley Michel Wright Award. In collaboration with composer Simon Charles, Marionette was developed into a performance work of voice, music and sound; they released an album in 2018. Jessica is the founding editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry and the offshoot Rabbit Poets Series of single-author collections by emerging Australian poets. With Bonny Cassidy, she co-edited the anthology Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter, 2016); and with Cassandra Atherton, Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours (Hunter, 2021). She is an associate professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.

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