New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry

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This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here―“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”―models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics of creative production in a place that continues to position capital over culture, property over community, each of the twenty essays in this anthology takes the subject of Australian poetry definitively beyond Eurocentrism and white privilege. By pushing back against nationalizing mythologies that have, over the last 200 years since colonization, not only narrativized the logic of instrumentalization but rendered our lands precarious, this book asserts new possibilities of creative responsiveness within the Australian sensorium. Praise for New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry? Works Cited Indigeneities Our Poetic-Justice A Labor of Love War of Words Haunt in the Wake Reckoning/Signposts of Hope Refuse/Return/Remain Works Cited The Intimacy in Survival Poetics Works Cited Response to Natalie Harkin: A Labor of Love Works Cited All the Trees Introduction Trees as Signs Trees Are Our Relations (Milroy and Milroy 2008) “Dedicated to the Leaves” Works Cited Just Poetry Works Cited Political Landscapes Bordering, Dissolving, Meeting, Regenerating Works Cited Writing Unwriting Writing Can Settler Poets Share Decolonization? Poetry and Protest Poetry as Alternative Beyond Writing Works Cited “If You Don’t Mind Me Arsing”: Insubordination and Land in Marty Hiatt’s the manifold Works Cited Against Place (the Lyrebird Shows the Way) Works Cited Disembodying and Reembodying the Poem as Act of Acknowledgment of Land Rights and a Rejection of “Property”: On Acts and Actioning of Environmentally Concerned Poetry Space, Place, Materiality Space, Place, Materiality in Contemporary Australian Poetry A “Fringed Violet” by Any Other Name Would Smell as Then Not Now What Decolonizing Multiplicities Indigenous Renaissances Non Sum New Mornings Works Cited Archiving the Undercommons: An Infrastructural Reading of Contemporary Australian Poetry Poetic Infrastructure Archive and Undercommons Works Cited The Antipodal Avant-Gardes: Chronometrics Neoterics Avant-Garrison/Avant-Remote Historicity and Measure Chronometrics Works Cited New Australian Poetry: Deranged and Teeming Introduction Derangement and Experimentation Reticulating Connections Recycling and Remaking as Realism Queering: The Body Queering: The Book Conclusion: Possibilities Works Cited The Work of Poetry The Work of Poetry Exhibit Tab My Lush Pad Conclusion Works Cited Revising an Australian ‘Mythos’ Poets, Truths, and Australia The Dramas of a Post-national Existence The Schemata of a National Poetry Works Cited Revising an Australian Mythos Works Cited On Machines and Metamorphoses: Notes Toward a Future Australian Mythos Poetry/Machine Future/Australia The Labyrinth/L’Avenir Works Cited Revisionist Myth Cycles and the State of Poetry Works Cited Shadowlands, or Somewhere in the Australian Odyssey Works Cited Afterword: The Province of L’Avenir Index