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Alison Whittaker
The Linguistic Playground of Poetics: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and Systemic Functional Linguistics
I wasn’t entirely prepared for the Canberran rain and cold. Late November, ostensibly summer, and my last trip to the capital at the same time of year almost a decade earlier had shocked me with a week of perfect blue-skied thirty-degree days.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Douglas Messerli, Elena Isayev, Jared Field, Michael Halliday, Raelke Grimmer, Simon West, Thomas Ford
Notes on Bad Poetry
Maybe we’ll always disagree about poetry – about how it works, and what it’s for; about its modalities and affordances; about what makes a good poem; about why you might want to write or read one.
uncalled-for program name generator, um deadly
Has this ever happened to you? Have you worked in the settler public service or some tight-jawed consultancy and wondered — just what am I going to call this uncalled-for program no mob have control over? Your solution is here …
Posted in 102: GAME
Tagged Alison Whittaker
guided meditation ASMR — your therapist’s intern calms you down roleplay — monotonous colonial apocalypse comfort ASMR #RoadTo100K
I know obviously you’ve got stuff going on, but please get up. They don’t really pay me for this, it’s a cadetship. Okay, well, since you’re gonna lie prostrate on the floor like that I mo’aswell practice. Can I join …
Posted in 101: NO THEME 10
Tagged Alison Whittaker
Nathan Sentance Reviews Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today Edited by Alison Whittaker
2020 is a hectic year, ay? Severe bushfires, Covid-19 outbreak, the subsequent lockdown, the colonial government funding an idolised re-enactment of the starting point of the invasion of these lands, Black people being harmed and murdered by state agents such as the police and those same police protecting boring statues of colonisers all while Rio Tinto destroys a 46,000-year-old sacred site.
‘A means of resistance’: Susie Anderson Interviews Alison Whittaker
Some writing teaches you possibility. Possibility in a number of ways: seeing yourself reflected in a body of work, echoing familiar words, places, or ideas; some writing is a lesson about form, or acts as an overall object to aspire to.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Susie Anderson
Raelee Lancaster Reviews Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork
My sister and I devoured Blakwork. She’s nine and I’m not sure if she understood most of what Alison Whittaker talks about in this collection, but it resonated with her. With both of us.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Raelee Lancaster
hey babe how’s you’re day
hey babe how’s you’re day i tried to roast some veg but yeah for dinner ahahaa yeah you know what happened could you bring cooked chook home? already left woolise? damn leths leys let’s !!!! fuck get something delivered i …
Posted in 89: DOMESTIC
Tagged Alison Whittaker
Winners for the Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem 2018
Run by Queensland Poetry Festival, and named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem is committed to encouraging poets throughout Australia. 2018 Selection panel: Alison Whittaker and Angela Gardner.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Angela Gardner, Damen O'Brien, Zenobia Frost
Innocent Eyes!: Ekphrasis and the Defiant Multiplicity of the Female Gaze
The male gaze has been discussed at length. The female gaze, not as much. This ekphrastic project is about the latter.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Angela Serrano, Ellen van Neerven, Keira Hudson, Saaro Umar
three poem suite
i. when to clean a wig a wig must always be clean or else develop a particular smell or else slick strappy heavy faced in all my years wearing wigs none told me how to clean one where to hang …
Posted in FEMALE GAZE
Tagged Alison Whittaker
not one silent lamb
1. a tuft of sustenance, adrip with meat and wool, pads the clay 2. a hungry metaphor born, it breaches somewhere out from Botany Bay 3. smeared on a frontier ill-defined beneath it bleats its grass-fed mine 4. there is …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Alison Whittaker
Tell Me Like You Mean It: New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers
‘Emerging’ is a strange word, and ‘strange’ is probably a cop out. It is often arbitrary, sometimes condescending, frequently empowering and often carries with it an incredible sense of community.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Amelia Dale, Anupama Pilbrow, Bella Li, Claire Nashar, Elena Gomez, Ella O'Keefe, Emily Stewart, Evelyn Araluen, Hera Lindsay Bird, Holly Childs, Holly Isemonger, Jessica Mei Cham, Leah Muddle, Magan Magan, Marjon Mossammaparast, Melody Paloma, Mikaila Hanman Siegersma, Oscar Schwartz, Ryan Prehn, Saaro Umar, Sian Vate, Stacey Teague
murrispacetime
From me don’t take from me what this what I been learnin’ slowly. Seein’ time stretch out from me don’t take it. I’m seein’ slow-stretch-time stretch time before me. Don’t stretch away from me just yet. Take time. You’re learnin’ …
Posted in AP EWF 2017
Tagged Alison Whittaker
Caitlin Maling Reviews Alison Whittaker
Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker’s debut collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire is a necessary addition to contemporary poetry. Deftly handled at both the level of the poem and the book, Whittaker’s work introduces us to the worlds of queer Aboriginal women living on the rural fringe of New South Wales.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Alison Whittaker, Caitlin Maling
