Category: Australian

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, 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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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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Australian, Blogs, Research

The process of making a poet

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Hello poets and readers, How does one become a poet? This perennial and intriguing question is in part answered by recent research in Australia. Interviewing 76 poets, Jen Webb, Paul Magee, Kevin Brophy and Michael Biggs isolated key factors which help to foster excellence in poetry. Although my research here emphasises process rather than end…

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