New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry

✍ Scribed by Dan Disney, Matthew Hall

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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