Author: Owen Bullock

Alvin Pang, Angela Gardner, Australian, Creativity, Embodied writing, Experimental, Judith Beveridge, Katharine Coles, Poetry on the Move 2019, Uncategorized

‘Poetry and Process’ panel from the Poetry on the Move festival 2019

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Hello poets and readers, At the 2019 Poetry on the Move festival, hosted by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra, I hosted a panel titled ‘Poetry and Process’. Festival Director Shane Strange made available a podcast of the panel presentations by our guests, national and international poets Angela Gardner, Judith Beveridge,…

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Australian, Blogs, Collaboration, Knowing & unknowing, Lucinda McKnight, New Zealand, Research, Ruby Todd

Reading and writing poetry about unknowing

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Hello poets and readers, How do we read a poem? Do we analyse it, interpret it, critique it, or just feel and experience our way through it? Multiple readings trouble the idea that we can master a text, but not its potential for openness. Lucinda McKnight, Ruby Todd and myself (all poet-researchers) decided to conduct…

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Alison Whittaker, Found material, Indigenous, Law, Poems, Poetic restraint

Found text manipulation by Alison Whittaker

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Hello poets and readers, In an earlier blogpost about the work of Gomeroi poet and lawyer Alison Whittaker, I discussed her work with trigrams and the process behind the creation of poems like ‘the skeleton of the common law’ from her collection Blakwork, which Alison expanded on in our podcast. Thanks to her generosity in…

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Alison Whittaker, Australian, Blogs, Collaboration, Embodied writing, Indigenous, Law, Poetic restraint

Some thoughts on Alison Whittaker’s process

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Hello poets and readers, Our podcast with Gomeroi poet and lawyer Alison Whittaker was full of insights. We introduced the podcast by quoting her comment about the similarity between the law and poetry, in terms of reducing things to essentials: “The logics of law and poetry boil meaning and power down to their barest components.”…

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Embodied writing, Experimental, Poetic restraint, Point-of-view, Research

Creativity and Innovation Short Course Online

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Hello poets and readers, If you’ve been following Poetry in Process and would like to delve further into some of the findings of this research, I’m running a short, intensive online course based on the findings of Poetry in Process called Creativity and Innovation, from the 27th-30th July. The course takes the form of four…

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Alison Whittaker, Australian, Collaboration, Indigenous, Law, Podcasts, Poetic restraint

Podcast: Alison Whittaker’s process

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Hello poets and readers, “The logics of law and poetry boil meaning and power down to their barest components.” We’re delighted to be able to bring you an interview with Alison Whittaker, a Gomeroi poet and author of the collections Lemons in the Chicken Wire and Blakwork, shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for…

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Blogs, Chimerism, Cristina Savin, Poems, Romanian, Vasile Baghiu

Cristina Savin on Vasile Baghiu’s poetic chimerism

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Hello poets and readers, Welcome to our guest blogpost by Cristina Savin:- At the heart of Baghiu’s poetry and process there exists a concept coined by the poet himself, chimerism. The concept encapsulates a tendency to escape everyday realities and to create a parallel universe, a counter-reality in which the poet lives. Baghiu remembers the…

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Blogs, Dance, Embodied writing, Knowing & unknowing, Merlinda Bobis, Multilingual poetry, Research

Some thoughts on Merlinda Bobis’ process

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Hello poets and readers, In our recent podcast with poet Merlinda Bobis, she notes that consciousness of process comes about after the fact. While writing, she is too busy leaping from one thought to another to allow for this kind of reflection. Something captures her and makes a poem possible. She describes the initial impetus…

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