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
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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
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