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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry
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'Poetry. A collection of work by innovative Australian poets whose work shares an interest in "a primary art of transformation in language" (from the introduction). All contributors traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area in April 2016 to participate in a four-day meeting with similarly-committed U.S.-based poets. The title of the event is also that of the anthology, which its editors intend as an extension and prolongation of the April gathering. ACTIVE AESTHETICS brings news across the Pacific and across the equator of Australia's current radical poetry and poetics. As is true of new poetry in the US, much of the work here reflects the complexity and urgency of political thinking within the aesthetic sphere.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • Includes work by the following poets: Pam Brown, A.J. Carruthers, Bonny Cassidy, Stuart Cooke, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chris Edwards, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, Elena Gomez, Matthew Hall, Natalie Harkin, Marty Hiatt, Fiona Hile, Jill Jones, Nick Keys, Sam Langer, Kate Lilley, Astrid Lorange, Kent MacCarter, Philip Mead, Peter Minter, Ella O'Keefe, Luke Patterson, Gig Ryan, Amanda Stewart, John Tranter, Ann Vickery, Corey Wakeling, Jessica Wilkinson, R D Wood, and Ouyang Yu.
  • Content indexing in process.

Contents

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Tuumba Press ,Giramondo Publishing , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'The Whole Reflected World Shuddering' : Active Aesthetics and Contemporary Australian Poetry, Ann Vickery , Kate Fagan , single work essay (p. 17-28)
Valle de Hurtado, Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 45-46)
An American Family Plays Frisbee a the Beach while on Holiday in Chile, Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 47)
The Ocean's a Dirty Window, Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 48-49)
Broome Beach Arti"we sit by the o", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 50)
Di"The day is wide", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 209)
Hi"Homeless at home", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 210)
Oi"Possibly for ophidian", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 211)
Pi"Pretzels are steel", Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 212)
R, Yu Ouyang , single work poetry (p. 213)
Fricasseei"fractured time", Pamela Brown , single work poetry
At 'The-End-of-the-World-as-we-Know-it' Retreati"now the western sky", Pamela Brown , single work poetry
Hi Fax, Pamela Brown , single work poetry
Axis 46 : Cabinets, A. J. Carruthers , single work poetry
Music, after Michael Dransfield, A. J. Carruthers , single work poetry
Music for Hazel Smith, A. J. Carruthers , single work poetry
Slow Newsi"Memory is a spotlight:", Bonny Cassidy , single work poetry
Spunkiei"Look at the lip on your innards;", Bonny Cassidy , single work poetry
Ex-territorial, Bonny Cassidy , single work poetry
Stump, Trunk and Cani"Your torso parked against a salmon gum.", Bonny Cassidy , single work poetry

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Works about this Work

Who's Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the Twenty-First Century A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;

'There has been a rich history of anthologising Australian poetry this far into the twenty-first century. This article claims that contemporary poetics, with a renewed focus on the recoprocal relation between cultural and linguistic inquiry, can rediscover alternative ways of reading the history of Australian avant-garde, inventive and experimental work. Considering several key anthologies published after the turn of last century, the article provides readings of both the frameworks the anthology-makers provide and the poems themselves, claiming that mark, trace and lexical segmentivities can already be read as social. It then proposes a new possibility for an experimental anthology that might bring these facets into lived praxis: the chrestomathy.' (Publication abstract)

Who's Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the Twenty-First Century A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;

'There has been a rich history of anthologising Australian poetry this far into the twenty-first century. This article claims that contemporary poetics, with a renewed focus on the recoprocal relation between cultural and linguistic inquiry, can rediscover alternative ways of reading the history of Australian avant-garde, inventive and experimental work. Considering several key anthologies published after the turn of last century, the article provides readings of both the frameworks the anthology-makers provide and the poems themselves, claiming that mark, trace and lexical segmentivities can already be read as social. It then proposes a new possibility for an experimental anthology that might bring these facets into lived praxis: the chrestomathy.' (Publication abstract)

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