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Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database
This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat- A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
- The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper.
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Strange Communion : Questions of Poetic Resistance
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 44-45)
— Review of Parallel Equators 2023 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground 2022 selected work poetry'‘Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?' (Introduction)
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Poetry Goes Nuclear : 3 Recent Books Delve into Present Anxieties, Finding Beauty Amid the Terror
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 June 2023;
— Review of Mirabilia 2022 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground 2022 selected work poetry ; The Exclusion Zone 2023 selected work poetry
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Poetry Goes Nuclear : 3 Recent Books Delve into Present Anxieties, Finding Beauty Amid the Terror
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 June 2023;
— Review of Mirabilia 2022 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground 2022 selected work poetry ; The Exclusion Zone 2023 selected work poetry -
Strange Communion : Questions of Poetic Resistance
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 44-45)
— Review of Parallel Equators 2023 selected work poetry ; Camping Underground 2022 selected work poetry'‘Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?' (Introduction)
- Cessnock, Cessnock area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
