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'This anthology...is a negotiation of many spaces. That of poets and their work, the idea of "Australia", the idea of being "represented" in a different demographic (America), personal or textual issues with anthologiser, who else is being included (though none outside myself and the publishers have knowledge of this until publication). Vitally, whoat matters is the conversations that arise from the anthology going public, and how the poets and readers deal with this community that has been organically and artificially induced.' John Kinsella (Source: backcover)
Contents
- Untitledi"Theology's Hell is spoiled by rhyme -", single work poetry (p. 4-15)
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Territories of Paradox and Resolution,
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'Australian poetry, like most poetries of the contemporary world, is informed by many cultural and social variables...'
- Forest Wat, Cambodiai"Who knows if sufferings's inquiry leads you anywhere", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Fin de Sieclei"Between two climates she'd be waiting, the slender young emigre", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- The Anti-Travel Travel Poemi"The anti-travel travel poem goes on the road again", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Translations from the Malay, 1930, sequence poetry (p. 28-29)
- Things To Do (Heart)i"a. Find heart, and place hand upon it. b. time", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Appassionatoi"he thundered out! of a wild July", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Mandragorai"Sleep! o sleep the certain knot of peace / a little sleep a little", single work poetry (p. 31-32)
- Maelstrom #61i"it's everywhere now a powerful whirlpool", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Goldeni"Thank you eyes, for opening onto a new day,", single work poetry (p. 33-34)
- Precisi"Brick by brick, boisterous towers", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- Symbolsi"They don't make sense", single work poetry (p. 36-37)
- Today, single work short story (p. 37-38)
- Conventional Wisdom of Diminishing Knowledgei"There are many still lives in still things", single work poetry (p. 39-40)
- L'arbre En Fleur Dans Le Jardin Au Printempsi"the scene was what it was, full of sweat and frustration.", single work poetry (p. 40)
- Utzoni"1. concrete primal naked forms-", single work poetry (p. 41-43)
- Patrick White as a Headlandi"Something vast is being suggested", single work poetry (p. 43)
- Variations on a Linei"Continuities lie in wait long after you've closed the book.", single work poetry (p. 43-44)
- Yachtsi"They are the sound of tea-cups wheeled off;", single work poetry (p. 45-46)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Who's Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;'There has been a rich history of anthologising Australian poetry this far into the twenty-first century. This article claims that contemporary poetics, with a renewed focus on the recoprocal relation between cultural and linguistic inquiry, can rediscover alternative ways of reading the history of Australian avant-garde, inventive and experimental work. Considering several key anthologies published after the turn of last century, the article provides readings of both the frameworks the anthology-makers provide and the poems themselves, claiming that mark, trace and lexical segmentivities can already be read as social. It then proposes a new possibility for an experimental anthology that might bring these facets into lived praxis: the chrestomathy.' (Publication abstract)
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They Will Oxidise Before You Even Finish Reading
2017
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— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 18-23)'Einstein’s theory of general relativity states that matter can cataclysmically implode, creating a state where a given density and the space-time curvature split towards infinite values. This is referred to as a singularity, or – as it is known to ordinary folk – a black hole. Extending out from a black hole’s unfathomably dense centre and extraordinary gravitational pull is a finite volume of space that ends in an event horizon: a demarcation – a line in the cosmic sands – from which nothing inside can escape: not rock, metal, Judas Priest, photons, alliteration or anything else. The closer that matter gets to a singularity, the more the laws of physics fail, eventually collapsing entirely.' (Introduction)
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Judging Blind
2015
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column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , April 2015; 'A brief and unscientific survey of prizes in Australia had equally unsurprising results. From the Premier’s Awards in Victoria and New South Wales to the Newcastle Poetry Prize to the Josephine Ulrich or the Anne Elder Awards, among others, my list mirrors Fulton’s. Needless to say this is not a consciously racist exclusion, but a structural problem in Australian letters. Samuel Wagan Watson and Ali Cobby Eckermann, both Indigenous poets, won the NSW Book of the Year and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, in 2005 and 2013 respectively. But in the awards I looked at they seem to be the only exceptions, especially of high profile poets who identify as non-white. That is only two out of a possible 120. As for the judges, it may be close to a clean sweep – after all you are hardly going to be called on as a judge unless you have won an award or two yourself.' -
Review : The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry
2014
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 56)
— Review of The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014 anthology poetry -
Paul Hetherington Reviews The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November no. 48.0 2014;
— Review of The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014 anthology poetry
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Paul Hetherington Reviews The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November no. 48.0 2014;
— Review of The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014 anthology poetry -
Review : The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 56)
— Review of The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014 anthology poetry -
Judging Blind
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , April 2015; 'A brief and unscientific survey of prizes in Australia had equally unsurprising results. From the Premier’s Awards in Victoria and New South Wales to the Newcastle Poetry Prize to the Josephine Ulrich or the Anne Elder Awards, among others, my list mirrors Fulton’s. Needless to say this is not a consciously racist exclusion, but a structural problem in Australian letters. Samuel Wagan Watson and Ali Cobby Eckermann, both Indigenous poets, won the NSW Book of the Year and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, in 2005 and 2013 respectively. But in the awards I looked at they seem to be the only exceptions, especially of high profile poets who identify as non-white. That is only two out of a possible 120. As for the judges, it may be close to a clean sweep – after all you are hardly going to be called on as a judge unless you have won an award or two yourself.' -
They Will Oxidise Before You Even Finish Reading
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 18-23)'Einstein’s theory of general relativity states that matter can cataclysmically implode, creating a state where a given density and the space-time curvature split towards infinite values. This is referred to as a singularity, or – as it is known to ordinary folk – a black hole. Extending out from a black hole’s unfathomably dense centre and extraordinary gravitational pull is a finite volume of space that ends in an event horizon: a demarcation – a line in the cosmic sands – from which nothing inside can escape: not rock, metal, Judas Priest, photons, alliteration or anything else. The closer that matter gets to a singularity, the more the laws of physics fail, eventually collapsing entirely.' (Introduction)
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Who's Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;'There has been a rich history of anthologising Australian poetry this far into the twenty-first century. This article claims that contemporary poetics, with a renewed focus on the recoprocal relation between cultural and linguistic inquiry, can rediscover alternative ways of reading the history of Australian avant-garde, inventive and experimental work. Considering several key anthologies published after the turn of last century, the article provides readings of both the frameworks the anthology-makers provide and the poems themselves, claiming that mark, trace and lexical segmentivities can already be read as social. It then proposes a new possibility for an experimental anthology that might bring these facets into lived praxis: the chrestomathy.' (Publication abstract)