Please find below links to poems by Monash ECPS undergraduate students from this year's creative writing classes:
Caitlin Murphy
Joel Lazar
Urvi Majumdar
Sarah Holley
Nicholas Robinson
Kristen Richards
Marissa Lee
Lynsey Swan
Jarryd Redwood
Christopher Bryant
Madeline Thornton-Smith
Hannah Clinton
Gavin Yates
Corinne Van den Hoek
Edwina Sleigh
Alexandra van Schildt
Anna Duve
Oscar Schwartz on the poetry of Chris Mann
Monday, September 17, 3pm, Menzies N702 (Monash Clayton)
Yr stuffed. Not coz yr wrong but coz yr looking in the wrong direction.
– Chris Mann
Chris Mann’s poetry is complicated to the point of breathlessness. When engaging with a Mann poem for the first time it is as if one has suddenly become dyslexic: the words are there, but their construction resists meaning. The complex façade of a Chris Mann poem is intimidating for any reader, so his readership is limited almost exclusively to the domain of the international avant-garde - more exclusively, to an international community of experimental composers.
This seminar will provide a point of entry into Mann’s work, and his exploration of cybernetics, linguistics, poetics and composition. Then comes the revelation: to read Chris Mann requires a new conception of what reading can be - as performance.
Gig Ryan - A Reading from New and Selected Poems
Monday, 10th September 2012, 2pm – 4pm
Elizabeth Burchill Rooms,
Building 68 (Performing Arts Centre), Clayton Campus
To celebrate the publication of her long-awaited New and Selected Poems (Giramondo 2011), Gig Ryan will be reading from and discussing her poetry. Her most recent book, also published in the UK, collects work from over three decades, and has been shortlisted for both the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
Gig Ryan is the author of six previous volumes: The Division of Anger (1981), Manners of an Astronaut (1984), The Last Interior (1986), Excavation (1990), Pure and Applied (1998), and Heroic Money (2001). She has been awarded the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in 1999, and the FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award.
As the critic Owen Richardson has written, her widely anthologised and influential poetry is,
‘the product of a thoroughgoing research into language where the materials, the data, are displayed, denaturalised: skidding jolting precipitate diction, counterpoints of stateliness and trashiness kept from incoherence by tightly organised sound and rhythmic systems, synaesthesia, catachresis, collage — it’s all absolutely modern….she may even have invented or at any rate done the best R&D on a whole new affect, elegiac sarcasm.’
Gig Ryan has been the poetry editor of The Age since 1998; she also works as freelance reviewer, and has written extended articles on Les Murray, Judith Wright, and Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
Presented by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies and the Centre for Postcolonial Writing. Enquiries to Samantha Clifford.
John Hand, "Lyrical Fabrications: An Adornian analysis of John Forbes' poetry"
Monday August 6, 3pm, Menzies N702 (Monash, Clayton)
Theodor Adorno's most famous statement of literary criticism is his assertion that "[t]o write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric". But he also said that silence is not an option: "literature must...not surrender to cynicism merely by existing after Auschwitz". It is argued that the coherently strange/strangely coherent poetry of John Forbes, under Adornian analysis, embodies and rises above this dilemma, albeit negatively. Each lyrical fabrication is a "tailored lightsail" designed to carry the possibility of literature through to a world - hopefully waiting - in which the possibility of a recurrence of Auschwitz has been dissolved.
Either that, or we will "sit and write & / smoke, thumbing through Adorno like New Idea".
Papers from Ken Bolton Day
Please find below links to draft versions of papers presented at the Ken Bolton day.
Many thanks to everyone who participated.
Tim Wright
Duncan Hose
Sam Moginie
John Jenkins
Ken Bolton, "The Kirkman Guide to the Bars of Europe" (courtesy of foam:e 8)
A KEN BOLTON DAY - Thursday, 21 June 2012
Room 6, Building 8 (Rotunda), Monash University, Clayton (next to Library)
Symposium celebrating the writings and influences of
poet, art critic and publisher Ken Bolton.
Presented with the assistance of the Monash Literary
Studies Research Unit and Deakin Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention.
Ken Bolton has been a leading figure in postmodern Australian
poetry since the 1970s. His many volumes include the recent books The Circus,
A Whistled Bit of Bop and Sly Mongoose; his collaborative texts with
John Jenkins have appeared in numerous editions and also been widely
anthologised. As editor of the literary journals Magic Sam and Otis Rush, and through Sea Cruise and Little Esther Books, Bolton has made a
significant contribution to small press publishing over several decades. He is
also an art critic, based at Adelaide’s Experimental Art Foundation since the early
1980s, where he runs Dark Horsey Bookshop.
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/bolton-ken
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/bolton-ken
11.15-11.30: John Hawke, Introduction
11.30-12: John Jenkins, “Twenty-Four Years of
Collaboration”
John Jenkins
has written seventeen books,
mostly non-fiction and
poetry, and
edited anthologies of
short fiction.
He has
worked extensively as
a journalist and arts
writer. His
most recent
books are
the poetry
collection Growing Up With Mr Menzies; and
travel writing,
Traveler’s
Tales of Old Cuba.
Website: johnjenkins.com.au
12-12.30: Sam
Moginie, “Amongst Modernisms: Reading Ken Bolton in the 1970s”
Sam Moginie resides
in Marrickville, and
is a doctoral
candidate at the
University of Sydney
reading the Australian
poetry of the
1970s. He blogs
occasionally at moremeteos.tumblr.com.
LUNCH 12.30-1.30
1.30-2: Duncan
Hose, “Poetry Hauntologues: Erotics of Influence in Frank O'Hara the Younger”
Duncan Hose is a poet, painter and academic scholar. His latest book of poems, One Under Bacchus, was published in 2011 by Inken Publisch, who also released his first collection, Rathaus, in 2007. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Newcastle Poetry Prize. He is currently completing a thesis at the University of Melbourne on self-mythologising in the poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes.
2-2.30: Ann
Vickery, “Taking Poetry to the Beach: Ken Bolton and the Coalcliff Years”
Ann Vickery is
a Senior
Lecturer in
Literary Studies
at Deakin
University in
Melbourne. She
is the
author of
Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP,
200), Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry
(Salt Publishing, 2007)
and co-author with
Maryanne Dever
and Sally
Newman of
The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers
(National Library
of Australia, 2009).
2.30-3: Tim
Wright, “Up Late Thinking: Digressions on a few poems by Ken Bolton”
Tim Wright is
a PhD candidate
in English/Creative Writing
at Monash University.
He was winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2008, and edited
the anthology Some Sonnets.
3-4.30: Ken
Bolton, Poetry Reading and Discussion
A gay, light-hearted
bastard, Ken Bolton
cuts a moodily romantic
figure within the
dun Australian literary
landscape, his name
inevitably conjuring
perhaps that best
known image of him,
bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared,
grinning cheerfully
at the wheel of
his 1958 Jaguar D-type,
El Cid.
Born in Sydney in
1949 he works at
the AEAF in Adelaide
and edits Little Esther
Books.
John Jenkins and Ken Bolton will be reading together at
Collected Works, Friday 22 June (6pm).
Contact: john.hawke@monash.edu
Pavlina Radia, “Formulated Flesh: The Inhuman Appetite of Modernist Poetics", 2pm, Friday 1 June, 2012
You are invited to attend the following seminar at Deakin University's city centre campus on Friday 1 June at 2pm:
Pavlina Radia, “Formulated Flesh: The Inhuman Appetite of Modernist Poetics”
Focusing primarily on the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Djuna Barnes, this paper explores the ways in which modernist poetry and other modernist art forms rely on the symbolic flaying of the body to comment on the artistic process of creation as a moment of renewal and re-invention. Such a process, as T.S. Eliot has argued, requires an elimination of the poet’s subjectivity in order to bring forth the notion of poesisas “a shred of platinum” or a disciplined intensity which I call the “formulated flesh.” The paper then suggests that such formulations not only drive the experimental aesthetic of modernist poetics, but also point to its appetite for movement and multiplicity whereby time becomes space, weight a lightness of being, form an inhuman flesh.
Dr Pavlina Radia is Assistant Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada.
The seminar will be held in Meeting Room 2. Deakin's city campus is on Level 3, 550 Bourke Street (Deloittes building), Melbourne. It will be followed by afternoon tea.
Melbourne Launch of Issue 2 of VLAK: Poetics & the Arts
After being launched across Europe and North America in 2011, the second and current issue of VLAK, the new international literary and cultural journal founded by Louis Armand and published by Litteraria Pragensia in Prague, will have its Melbourne launch as part of Deakin University's 'The Political Imagination: Postcolonial and Diasporic Poetries' symposium, from 12:45-1:15pm on Friday 13 April at Deakin Prime in Melbourne.
This issue of VLAK includes a new dossier of contemporary experimental Australian poetry, and will be launched by Dr. John Hawke. The launch is free to attend and will feature Michael Farrell, Matt Hetherington, D. J. Huppatz, jeltje and Gig Ryan reading their work from the journal. Copies of the journal will be available for sale at a special price.
After being launched across Europe and North America in 2011, the second and current issue of VLAK, the new international literary and cultural journal founded by Louis Armand and published by Litteraria Pragensia in Prague, will have its Melbourne launch as part of Deakin University's 'The Political Imagination: Postcolonial and Diasporic Poetries' symposium, from 12:45-1:15pm on Friday 13 April at Deakin Prime in Melbourne.
This issue of VLAK includes a new dossier of contemporary experimental Australian poetry, and will be launched by Dr. John Hawke. The launch is free to attend and will feature Michael Farrell, Matt Hetherington, D. J. Huppatz, jeltje and Gig Ryan reading their work from the journal. Copies of the journal will be available for sale at a special price.
Writers and their World Seminar Series: Barry Scott - Giving Writers a Voice
Giving Writers a Voice
2nd April 2012, 2pm - 4pm
ECPS Library,
Room W710,
Menzies Building,
Clayton Campus
Barry Scott will talk about the world of independent publishing with particular reference to Transit Lounge and its goal to publish and promote Australian writing that creatively engages with other cultures. How can writers write sensitively about other cultures, especially as an outsider? And how can a publisher best promote works that don’t always present a positive view of Australia and the West, or indeed other countries? He will also discuss the parallels with independent publishing in the US; the varieties of writing that pass his desk every day, the changing outlook for publishing, and the opportunities of the Australian marketplace.
Barry Scott is the co-founder of independent publishing company Transit Lounge. The press has a particular interest in writing that engages with other cultures and since 2005 has published books by writers including Cate Kennedy, Ouyang Yu and Patrick Holland. Barry has a background in literary arts administration and a particular interest in Australian writing about Asia. He is the editor of New and Rediscovered by Vicki Viidikas and the author of Love and Wigs: Poems of Bangkok Bollywood and Beyond. In 2009 with the support of CAL he undertook a study of independent publishers in the US, and has previously been an Asialink arts management resident in India.
Presented by the Centre for Postcolonial Writing, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Clayton campus, Wellington road, Clayton
arts-ecps-enquiries@monash.edu
Ph:+61 3 9905 2140
CRICOS Provider Number: 00008C
arts-ecps-enquiries@monash.edu
Ph:+61 3 9905 2140
CRICOS Provider Number: 00008C
Monash Poetics Discussion Group
Mondays 3pm, Menzies N702 (Clayton)
April 16:Brodie Bortignon, ‘Self, Body and Human Nature in Gerard Manley Hopkins’
April 30:
Peter Hanson, ‘The Poetry of Philip Hammial as “Minor Literature”’
May 14:
David Dick, ‘Literary Cubism in John Ashbery’s Tennis Court Oath’
May 28:
Caroline Williamson, ‘Reading Jill Jones and Jorie Graham through Walter Benjamin’
June 21 (Thursday):
Symposium on Ken Bolton, OuLiPo and Second Generation New York School (Guest: Ken Bolton)
July 9:
Poetry Workshop: Con Karavias, Andrew Mahony, Tom McPherson
July 23:
Tim Wright, ‘Longer Poems of Laurie Duggan: “Crab and Winkle” and “Ornithology”’
August 6:
Lianda Burrows, ‘Topographical Aesthetic in Murnane’s The Plains’
August 20:
Oscar Schwartz, ‘Performance in the Poetry of Chris Mann and PiO’
September 3:
Raphaelle Race, ‘Poetic Technique as Narrative Device’
September 17:
Gabriel Garcia Ochoa, ‘Metafictional Truth’
October 1:
Chris Mooney-Singh, ‘Charles Harpur, Harold Stewart and the Asian Influence in Australian Poetry’
October 15:
Ronald Lee, ‘The Divine Comedy and De Vulgari Eloquentia in Modernist Poetry’
Contact: john.hawke@monash.edu
The Political Imagination: Contemporary Postcolonial and Diasporic Poetries
Date: 12-13 April 2012
Venue: Deakin Prime
 | Poetry Symposium2012 |
Artwork: The Nightbirds, 2005-6, oil on canvas, Kriston Terbutt
Background
'The Political Imagination' is a symposium that brings together some of Australia's leading poets and poetry scholars to investigate the state of contemporary postcolonial and diasporic poetries. It aims to explore the contentious, at times controversial, issues surrounding the production and discussion of poetry and poetics in work that engages with the politics of the postcolonial, the transnational and the diasporic. Among the topics addressed by symposium participants will be opposition, identity, subversion and hybridity.
Venue: Deakin Prime, Level 3, 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Date: 12 and 13 April, 2012
Times: Day 1, 9.30 am to 4.30 pm and Day 2, 9.30 am to 4 pm
Date: 12 and 13 April, 2012
Times: Day 1, 9.30 am to 4.30 pm and Day 2, 9.30 am to 4 pm
Convenors
 | Dr Ann Vickery Ann Vickery is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (Salt Publishing, 2007) and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (University of Wesleyan Press, 2000). She is co-author with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009). |
 | Dr Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Monash University where he is also the Director of the Centre for Postcolonial writing. He is the author of collections of poetry Ashes in the Air (University of Queensland Press, 2011) and Eyes in Times of War (Salt Publishing, 2006), and, with Ken Avery, Fifty Poems of Attar (re.press, 2007) a work of literary scholarship and translation. He is an editor with Cordite Poetry Review and with VLAK: Poetics and the Arts. |
 | Professor Lyn McCredden Literary Studies Convenor |
Program
Thursday 12 April
| 9.30 am | Welcome to Country |
| 9.45 am to 10.45 am | Peter Minter |
| 10.45 am 11.15 am | Morning Tea |
| 11.15am to 12 pm | Bridie McCarthy |
| 12 pm to 1 pm | Lunch |
| 1 pm to 1.45 pm | Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers |
| 1.45 pm to 2.30 pm | Ania Walwicz |
| 2.30 pm to 3 pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3 pm to 3.45 pm | Sam Wagan Watson |
| 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm | Ali Alizadeh |
| 4.30 pm | Close |
6pm to 7.30pm, Readings, Peter Minter, Sam Wagan Watson, Michelle Cahill, Adam Aitken At Collected Works Bookshop: Level 1, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Friday 13 April
| 9.30 am to 10.15 am | Michelle Cahill |
| 10.15 am to 11 am | Adam Aitken |
| 11 am to 11.30 am | Morning Tea |
| 11.30 am to 12.15 pm | Michael Farrell |
| 12.15 pm to 1.15 pm | Lunch and Vlak Launch |
| 1.15 pm to 2 pm | Lyn McCredden |
| 2 pm to 2.45 pm | Lucy Van |
| 2.45 pm to 3.15 pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.15 pm to 4pm | Ann Vickery |
| 4 pm | Close |
7 pm for 7.30 pm start, Vagabond Rare Objects Launch, Jill Jones, Hoang Nguyen, Nick Whittock, Corey Wakeling, Fiona Hile, Eddie Paterson (To be launched by Michael Farrell) At The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East.
Abstracts
The full program with abstracts can be downloaded here
Contacts
Dr Ann VickerySenior Lecturer
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Faculty of Arts and Education
Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone: +61 3 924 43960
Email: ann.vickery@deakin.edu.au
Reading and Discussion by Michael Hulse, Thursday, March 1, 2-4pm
Announcing a visit to Monash (Clayton) by distinguished English poet MICHAEL HULSE this Thursday, March 1, 2-4pm in 25/W710. Michael will be reading from his latest collection, The Secret History, and discussing his recent anthology, Poetry in the Twentieth Century.
Presented with the assistance of the Literature Research Unit and the Centre for Postcolonial Writing, ECPS, Monash University.
Born in 1955, Michael Hulse grew up in England, the son of an English father from the Potteries and a German mother from near Trier in the Mosel valley. After studying at St. Andrews he lived for twenty-five years in Germany, working in universities, publishing and documentary television, before returning to England in 2002 to teach at the University of Warwick.
His poetry has won him firsts in the UK's National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), and Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors, and has taken him on reading tours of Canada and the US, Australia, New Zealand, India, and several European countries. His work has been praised by Peter Porter, C. K Stead, Sean O'Brien, Simon Armitage and many others.
He has edited the literary quarterlies Stand, Leviathan Quarterly and (currently) The Warwick Review, co-edited the best-selling anthology The New Poetry, and in the Nineties was general editor of the Könemann literature classics series and of Arc international poets.
He has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, and the late W. G. Sebald, bringing his plaudits from Susan Sontag and A.S. Byatt. He is a permanent judge of the Günter Grass Foundation's biennial international literary award, the Albatross Prize.
Michael Hulse's latest publications (both 2009) are a long-awaited new book of poems, The Secret History (Arc) and a translation of Rilke's novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics). In autumn 2011 his landmark anthology The 20th Century in Poetry, co-edited with Simon Rae, was published by Ebury Press, a Random House imprint.
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