Category: Embodied writing

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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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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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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Embodied writing, Merlinda Bobis, Multilingual poetry, Podcasts, Research

Podcast: Merlinda Bobis’ process

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Poetry – “Most of the time, it’s an accident of composition.” Hello poets and readers, We’re delighted to be able to bring you an interview with Filipino-Australian poet Merlinda Bobis. Bobis’ assertion that the writing of poetry is accidental is reflected in the title of her most recent collection Accidents of Composition (2017). Her poetry…

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