Verge 2014 - Everything and Nothing - Official Launch at the Melbourne Writers Festival, August 30

OFFICIAL LAUNCH @ MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL 

AUGUST 30 AT 11:30am 

The Cube 

ACMI Federation Square, Melbourne 

Come help us celebrate the tenth edition of Monash University's creative writing annual, featuring a selection of established and emerging authors from Australia and around the world, including John Tranter, Heiko Julien, Anders Villani and Coral Bracho.

The winning entries of the 2014 Monash Prize awarded by the Emerging Writers Festival are also featured.

All Welcome!

Everything is Poetry: Environmental Poetry, Guerrilla Poetry and Poetry Bombing A public lecture by David Morley

Wednesday 27th August 6-7pm
Lecture Theatre G1.04, Caulfield Campus

Abstract 

'We are putting the world on notice: we are here; we are writing; and we want your attention. If you’re not willing to give us your attention, then we will take it from you. We will be heard. Are you listening?’ – from the Guerrilla Poetry Manifesto

How do we create a poetic form that increases the species-diversity of a habitat? How can we prompt a whole city to read poetry? How do we place poetry at the heart of what we do and who we are? In this guest lecture, the first Alliance Professor of Writing David Morley presents examples and challenges that will surprise and delight. From poetry-bombing a clothes store to poetry-bombing a city, from blending poems into the life-cycle of birds to swimming a poem along a river, David’s own creations are imbued with a high idea content about the dynamics of ecology (he is a trained zoologist as well as a poet). His conceptual works are created from the artistic fusion of poetic and sculptural elements with those of the natural landscape. John Clare declared that he ‘found the p\oems in fields and only wrote them down’. Morley, the poetic biographer of Clare in The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet, 2013), takes this process a step sideways by creating poems and folding them back into the natural world. 

Biography 

David Morley was trained as an ecologist and carried out a substantial research project on acid rain before Margaret Thatcher shut down his laboratory. Fortunately David was also writing poetry and won an Eric Gregory Award a few months after losing his job. Morley’s poetry collections include The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet, 2013), a PBS Recommendation, and Biographies of Birds and Flowers: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2014). He published Enchantment (Carcanet 2011), a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year chosen by Jonathan Bate. The Invisible Kings (Carcanet, 2007) was a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year chosen by Les Murray. He writes for The Guardian and Poetry Review. He was one of the judges of the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and is judging the 2013 Foyle Young Poets of the Year. He has won fourteen writing awards and is Professor of Writing at Warwick University and Alliance Chair of Writing at Monash University.

Poetry Reading - David Morley, Gig Ryan, Will Eaves

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

6 for 6.30pm

Collected Works

35-37 Swanston St

Nicholas Building, Level 1

David Morley’s poetry collections include The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet, 2013) and Biographies of Birds and Flowers: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2014). He published Enchantment (Carcanet 2011), a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year chosen by Jonathan Bate. The Invisible Kings (Carcanet, 2007) was a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year chosen by Les Murray. He is Professor of Writing at Warwick University and Alliance Chair of Writing at Monash University.

Will Eaves is the author of three novels, one work of experimental fiction and a volume of poetry. From 1995 to 2011 he was the Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Warwick, and currently lives in Melbourne, where he is writing a novel about the possibility of artificial intelligence.

Gig Ryan's New and Selected Poems (Giramondo 2011), 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 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.

For enquiries contact John Hawke (John.Hawke@monash.edu)

The Poetry of Alan Wearne - Monash University, Tuesday August 5

Please join us for a poetry reading by Alan Wearne

Tuesday, August 5, 2014
4pm-5pm

Room E561, Menzies Building, 

Monash University Clayton


Australia’s leading verse-novelist, Alan Wearne emerged from the Monash Poetry Readings of the late-1960s; his work focuses on the outer-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, especially Blackburn South. Alan’s many books include The Nightmarkets, which won the Banjo Award; The Lovemakers, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; and The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing, which co-won The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies’ Colin Roderick Award and the H. T. Priestly Medal. His most recent collection, Prepare the Cabin for Landing, appeared with Giramondo press in 2013. Alan will be reading from his new work for this special event.

For enquires, contact John Hawke (John.Hawke@monash.edu)

The Poetry of John Wilkinson - Monash University, Monday July 14

Please join us for a reading and discussion by leading English poet and critic John Wilkinson

Monday, July 14

3pm - 4.30pm
Room E561, Menzies Building
Clayton Campus
Presented by the Network for Literary and Cultural Studies
All Welcome

John Wilkinson is an English poet born in London and growing up in Cornwall and Devon. He was educated at Cambridge where he was taught most consequentially by J.H. Prynne. He now lives in Chicago, where he teaches in the Department of English and the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, following an earlier appointment at the University of Notre Dame. His previous career in the UK took him from psychiatric nursing in Birmingham to teaching Community Care in Swansea, to public health in the East End of London. He has published six collections of poetry with Salt and a collection of critical essays, mainly on recent British poetry. He has subsequently published several critical essays on New York School poets, and lately has turned his attention to W.S. Graham and Dylan Thomas. His most recent book of poetry is Reckitt’s Blue from Seagull Books; and a new long poem, Courses Matter-Woven, will be published as a pamphlet by Equipage in 2014. John Wilkinson’s writing has received extensive critical commentary, including a conference at Sussex University, and he has read and lectured widely in the US, UK, Australia, China and Tibet.

For enquires, contact John Hawke (John.Hawke@monash.edu)

The Poetry of John Tranter - Monash University, Monday 12th May, 2014

Please join us for a reading and discussion by this internationally renowned Australian poet

Monday 12th May 2014

2pm-4pm
Room E561, Menzies Building
Clayton Campus
All welcome

John Tranter has published over twenty books of poetry and a book of experimental fiction, Different Hands. His latest major works are Starlight: 150 Poems (University of Queensland Press, 2010), which won the 2011 Age Poetry Book of the Year and the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Award, and Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected (University of Queensland Press, 2006), which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2006, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2007, the South Australian award for poetry in 2008 and the 2008 South Australia Premier’s Prize for the best book overall published in 2006 and 2007. He has compiled four anthologies of other writers’ work totalling over 1,500 pages, including co-editing the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991). He has made more than twenty reading and lecture tours to the USA, the UK and Europe.

John Tranter worked as a publisher’s senior education editor in Singapore, and as a radio drama and features producer, directing over forty radio plays and features for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as well as managing a weekly two-hour national radio arts feature for some years. In 1997 he founded the free Internet literary magazine Jacket (http://jacketmagazine.com/), and in 2004 he founded the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (APRIL), the recipient (in 2006) of a half-million-dollar Australian Research Council Linkage Grant to the Department of English at the University of Sydney.

John Tranter is an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and has been awarded many grants and fellowships by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

For enquires, contact John Hawke (John.Hawke@monash.edu)

DAMON KRUKOWSKI MASTERCLASS

Thursday 11 April 2-4pm
Room N702, Menzies Building, Monash (Clayton Campus)

Damon Krukowski from Exact Change Press will be discussing the
European avant garde contribution to literary Modernism, and the role
of specialist publishers in disseminating this work to
English-language readers. Along with other publishers, such as Atlas
Press, Green Integer, and Dalkey Archive, Exact Change has provided an
expanded view of the Modernist tradition, realigning the prevailing
orthodoxy of the Anglo-American canon for a generation of readers.

Exact Change publishes books of experimental literature with an
emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth and
twentieth century avant-garde art movements.

The press was founded in 1989 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, known
outside publishing as musicians from the bands Damon & Naomi, and
Galaxie 500. Exact Change authors include Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis
Aragon, Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de
Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Morton Feldman, Alice James, Alfred Jarry,
Franz Kafka, Lautréamont, Gérard de Nerval, Fernando Pessoa, Raymond
Roussel, Philippe Soupault, Gertrude Stein, Stefan Themerson, Denton
Welch, and Unica Zürn.

JAAP BLONK LECTURE/PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION

Monday, March 18, 2pm

Elizabeth Burchill Room, Building 68 (Performing Arts), G38

Clayton Campus, Monash University

Jaap Blonk is one of the world’s leading performers and practitioners of sound poetry, exploring the common ground between poetry and music without abandoning the semantics of language. His compositions and performances make use of words and phonetic snippets, as well as clicks, hisses, and other vocal manipulations. As a vocalist, Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom of improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. His celebrated renditions of works by Dadaist pioneers such as Hugo Ball, as well as other major works of sound art including those of the Fluxus movement, have been presented throughout the world. One of his earliest influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose Ursonate he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times. He works as a solo performer, in collaboration with avant garde musicians such as John Tchicai, Tristan Honsiger, and Mats Gustafsson, and with his own ensembles Splinks and BRAAXTAAL. This is his first visit to Australia.

“Jaap Blonk is a remarkable self-taught composer, performer, visual artist and poet. To see him on-stage is to be dumb-struck at first by the seeming oddity of his work – the presentation of abstract vocal sounds and extraordinary facial and bodily gyrations; if one can get past that, one marvels at the sheer inventiveness of his art. He is funny, serious and virtuosic at the same time. He is part sound poet, part sound technology artist, part experimental theatre performer, and he uses improvisation within a structure, or to shape the structure, in many of these modes. He takes his voice and body far beyond the normal range of expression which the rest of us use in daily communication.” – Boulderpavement

Anthology of Monash Student Poems 2012

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.

arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences

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

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.

Contact: Ann Vickery (ann.vickery@deakin.edu.au)

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.

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

arts.monash.edu.au/postcolonial-writing/

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

Ben Frater radio documentary: ABC selection for Prix Italia

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/pray-ho27tell/3764002

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
	Background Convenors Conference Program Abstracts Contacts

Artwork: The Nightbirds, 2005-6, oil on canvas, Kriston Terbutt

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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

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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

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Program

Full 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.

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Abstracts

The full program with abstracts can be downloaded here

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Contacts

Dr Ann Vickery
Senior 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