Australian poetry today

Grant number: FT140100456 | Funding period: 2015 - 2021

Completed

Abstract

This project surveys the field of contemporary Australian poetry, its products, personnel, institutions, and processes. Through interviews with poets, publishers, booksellers, academics, editors and managers, as well as extensive archival research, it will provide the first major synoptic research into the state of Australian poetry today. This project aims to establish possible future directions for Australian poetry and its importance for Australian culture more generally.

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Founding Australian poetry was part of that ambition. This book is an extraordinary reconstruction of the circumstances and implic..

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Space, Place, Materiality in Contemporary Australian Poetry

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This chapter examines key themes in the work of a number of significant contemporary Australian poets, including Mez Breeze, Astri..

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Where then shall hope and fear —

Justin Clemens

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The article examines a radical tradition of poetry in which the phenomena of hope and fear are thematized. Moving backwards in tim..

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An alogical space of genetic reintrication: Notes on an element of Giorgio Agamben's method

J Clemens

2020-07-01

© 2020 Donzelli Editore Srl. All rights reserved. In this chapter, I will discuss Agamben's work through an analysis of one of his..

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Barron Field's Terra Nullius Operation

Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens

2019-11-30

In ‘Barron Field’s Terra Nullius Operation’, Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens show how a jurisdictional dispute over the applicat..

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First Fruits of a Barron Field

Justin Clemens

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Agamben and Poetry

Justin Clemens

2019-01-01

This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry ..

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Just Come Now

Justin Clemens

2019-01-01

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Barron field and the myth of terra nullius

J Clemens

2018-01-01

While Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Barron Field published the first book of poetry in Australia in 1819. Field w..

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Of Avatars and Apotheoses: David Fallon's Blake

Justin Clemens

2018-01-01

Somehow an artistic singularity as stellar as William Blake tends to take on the scattered spuriosities of his diverse readers. Fr..

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Bentham, torture, modernity

Justin Clemens

2017-11-03

In this essay, I examine the relatively little-known and commented-upon writings of Jeremy Bentham regarding the potentially benef..

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Aporetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology

J clemens

2017-01-01

For much of his life, it seems Georges Perec spurned poetry, identifying it with the sort of bourgeois sentimentalism that his own..

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Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec

J Clemens, R Wilken

2017-01-01

Georges Perec is considered one of the most significant twentieth century writers. While perhaps best known for his first breakthr..

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When the levee breaks: Badiou, philosophy, politics

J CLEMENS

2016-08-01

When the levee breaks, you’ve got at least two problems. One is working out how to contain the rush; the other is actually doing i..

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Rancière Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics

J CLEMENS

2016-01-01

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Syllable as Syntax: Stephane Mallarme's Un Coup de des

Justin Clemens

2016-01-01

Un Coup de dés is one of the masterworks of modern literature, and a kind of summa of Stéphane Mallarmé's lifework. It could not h..

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Alain Badiou e a poesia

J CLEMENS

2015-01-01

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