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









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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

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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

Convenors

Ann VickeryDr 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).
AliDr 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.
Lyn
Professor Lyn McCredden
Literary Studies Convenor

Program

Thursday 12 April
9.30 amWelcome to Country
9.45 am to 10.45 amPeter Minter
10.45 am 11.15 amMorning Tea
11.15am to 12 pmBridie McCarthy
12 pm to 1 pmLunch
1 pm to 1.45 pmDanijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
1.45 pm to 2.30 pmAnia Walwicz
2.30 pm to 3 pmAfternoon Tea
3 pm to 3.45 pmSam Wagan Watson
3.45 pm to 4.30 pmAli Alizadeh
4.30 pmClose
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 amMichelle Cahill
10.15 am to 11 amAdam Aitken
11 am to 11.30 amMorning Tea
11.30 am to 12.15 pmMichael Farrell
12.15 pm to 1.15 pmLunch and Vlak Launch
1.15 pm to 2 pmLyn McCredden
2 pm to 2.45 pmLucy Van
2.45 pm to 3.15 pmAfternoon Tea
3.15 pm to 4pmAnn Vickery
4 pmClose
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 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

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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