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Anthropologist of Space : the Poetics of Representation in Laurie Duggan’s Crab & Winkle
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;'This paper explores the representation of contemporary space in the work of Australian poet Laurie Duggan. Focusing upon Duggan’s Crab & Winkle (2009)—a work ‘situated’ in the United Kingdom—the paper contends that such a text presents an example of ‘spatial mapping’, one in which the representation of place and space is both a thematic preoccupation and a determining feature of the poem’s structural concerns. In Crab & Winkle, a book-length record of Duggan’s first year living in East Kent, the reader is offered a diaristic mapping of an environment largely unfamiliar to the poem’s (autobiographical) narrator. In this expatriate work, Australia—as physical and social space—becomes a ghostly presence, an imagined space that is nevertheless a vital component of the cognitive map the text constructs through a collage of everyday materiality and the mental spaces of memory and imagination. Situating Duggan’s work within a tradition of process-based aesthetics, the paper argues that Crab & Winkle constructs experiential, yet necessarily provisional maps of contemporary space that roam from the local to the global.' (Publication summary)
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Laurie Duggan : Crab & Winkle
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
Untitled
2010-
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 25 June no. 5595 (p. 25)
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
No Sound Finally Vanishes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Jacket , July no. 40 2010;
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
Buzzing Off
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 63)
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry
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Buzzing Off
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 63)
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
No Sound Finally Vanishes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Jacket , July no. 40 2010;
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
Untitled
2010-
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 25 June no. 5595 (p. 25)
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
Laurie Duggan : Crab & Winkle
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Crab and Winkle : East Kent and Elsewhere, 2006-2007 2009 single work poetry -
Anthropologist of Space : the Poetics of Representation in Laurie Duggan’s Crab & Winkle
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;'This paper explores the representation of contemporary space in the work of Australian poet Laurie Duggan. Focusing upon Duggan’s Crab & Winkle (2009)—a work ‘situated’ in the United Kingdom—the paper contends that such a text presents an example of ‘spatial mapping’, one in which the representation of place and space is both a thematic preoccupation and a determining feature of the poem’s structural concerns. In Crab & Winkle, a book-length record of Duggan’s first year living in East Kent, the reader is offered a diaristic mapping of an environment largely unfamiliar to the poem’s (autobiographical) narrator. In this expatriate work, Australia—as physical and social space—becomes a ghostly presence, an imagined space that is nevertheless a vital component of the cognitive map the text constructs through a collage of everyday materiality and the mental spaces of memory and imagination. Situating Duggan’s work within a tradition of process-based aesthetics, the paper argues that Crab & Winkle constructs experiential, yet necessarily provisional maps of contemporary space that roam from the local to the global.' (Publication summary)