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Dedication: for Margaret & Bob & James : altering the local song.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Applecross,
Melville area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Salt Publishing
, 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Calendar, sequence poetry (p. 1-11)
- Aprili"Against a grey sky thought appears differently", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Mayi"Twenty birds announce the difference, peculiar in their", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Junei"Coded eventualities, we throw handfuls of syntax and desire a", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Julyi"Holding hands we leap off jagged rocks for a video", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Augusti"Emptying over a balcony, slow light recalls the loss of", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Septemberi"In a secondhand shop I find obscure printed validations of these", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Octoberi"Muted trumpet absorbed by a cold watching dam, scratchiness", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Novemberi"Skin emergent as silence, lightly crossing territories. A plane", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Decemberi"Where hail has broken the vast roof a galaxy of stars hangs", single work poetry (p. 11)
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Return to a New Physics,
sequence
poetry
(p. 38-49)
Note: Author note: 'written for Peter Minter in correspondence.'
- Anti-Landscape : Lighthouse Beachi"You are walking among ribs", single work poetry (p. 53-55)
- Lighthouse Seriesi"Evolving map", single work poetry (p. 56-65)
- Geophilosophyi"Winter drags itself slowly across the interval occupied by", single work poetry (p. 66-68)
- Ecloguei"As if in burial country", single work poetry (p. 69-76)
- The Phoenix Cupi"Even the sky", single work poetry (p. 79-80)
- Being as Such (Eulogy)i"Falling outside the lower limit", single work poetry (p. 81-82)
- In Pursuit of Bluei"Numb on our parallel", single work poetry (p. 83-84)
- Sentiencei"this sound breath makes", single work poetry (p. 85-88)
- The Waste of Tonguesi"It is impossible to stand on an ice-cube", single work poetry (p. 89-105)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Aesthetics in Welcome Crisis’ : Kate Fagan’s The Long Moment as New-Lyricist, Post-Romantic, Transversal, Post-Language Poetry
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 153-171) 'There is something about the complexity, the uncomfortability, of climate change, that makes the aesthetic recuperation of classical elements both necessary, consoling, and in some ways or instances at least, inadequate. It is an especially reductive anthropomorphic synthesis of largely non-synthesisable phenomena. And while many artists deploy and reinvent the concept of classical elements in creative, intricate, and compelling ways that serve to challenge its potential reductiveness, this essay will concentrate on a collection of poetry whose performativity short-circuits all of the tropological hard-wiring that underpins our collective imaginaries, not least the earth-fire-wind-water quadruplet. This is the radical eco-poetry of Kate Fagan, whose artistic experimentation, commensurate with some of the avant-garde science of our day, thwarts the kind of axiomatic comprehension that most readers are programmed to desire, and capers instead in vortices of problematics. ' (Author's introduction) -
Light and Landscapes
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 July 2003; (p. 12)
— Review of Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 - 2002 2002 selected work poetry ; The Owner of My Face : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Bestiary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry -
Gender and a Poetic Perspective
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 May 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry -
Salty Pleasures
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 244 2002; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Versary 2002 selected work poetry
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Gender and a Poetic Perspective
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 May 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry -
Light and Landscapes
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 July 2003; (p. 12)
— Review of Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 - 2002 2002 selected work poetry ; The Owner of My Face : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Bestiary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry -
Salty Pleasures
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 244 2002; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Aesthetics in Welcome Crisis’ : Kate Fagan’s The Long Moment as New-Lyricist, Post-Romantic, Transversal, Post-Language Poetry
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 153-171) 'There is something about the complexity, the uncomfortability, of climate change, that makes the aesthetic recuperation of classical elements both necessary, consoling, and in some ways or instances at least, inadequate. It is an especially reductive anthropomorphic synthesis of largely non-synthesisable phenomena. And while many artists deploy and reinvent the concept of classical elements in creative, intricate, and compelling ways that serve to challenge its potential reductiveness, this essay will concentrate on a collection of poetry whose performativity short-circuits all of the tropological hard-wiring that underpins our collective imaginaries, not least the earth-fire-wind-water quadruplet. This is the radical eco-poetry of Kate Fagan, whose artistic experimentation, commensurate with some of the avant-garde science of our day, thwarts the kind of axiomatic comprehension that most readers are programmed to desire, and capers instead in vortices of problematics. ' (Author's introduction)
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