Spatial relations . Volume 1 Essays, reviews, commentaries, and chorography / / John Kinsella ; edited with introduction by Gordon Collier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808182403321
• Autore: Kinsella John <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2013
• ISBN: 94-012-0938-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (580 p.)
• Collana: Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; ; 161
• Altri autori (Persone): CollierGordon
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetti: Australian literature - History and criticism; Language and culture - Australia - History; Landscapes in literature; Australia In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Literature of Australia Past -- Quarantined Spaces, Groups, and a Crisis of Modernism -- Towards a Contemporary Australian Poetic -- The Newer Australian Poetry -- Hybridizing Zones -- Idiosyncrasy and the Craft of Poetry -- The New Penguin -- China’s Australia Anthology -- Talking Islands (with Alvin Pang) -- Sighting -- The Poetic Pulse of Western Australia -- Pulped Factions: Rivalries in Australian Poetry -- Notes Towards Anthologizing the Australian Pastoral Poem -- “Farther off than Australia” (with Tracy Ryan) -- Breaking Down the Barriers -- On the Prospects of Keeping Good Company -- Fremantle Press New Poets We Have to Have -- Robert Adamson: A Juxtaposition of Essences -- On the Collaboration of Robert Adamson and Juno Gemes -- David Brooks: Urban Elegies -- David Brooks: The Balcony -- David Brooks: The Sons of Clovis -- Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective -- Lionel Fogarty: The Hybridizing of a Poetry -- Dorothy Hewett -- David McComb: In Between Words -- David McComb: Beautiful Waste -- Les Murray: Incalculable Influence -- Les Murray: Speaking to People -- Ouyang Yu: The Space of the Tale -- Letter to Ouyang Yu -- Simply Charmaine -- Charmaine Papertalk–Green -- Peter Porter: Crossing Between Worlds -- Peter Porter: ; Outdoing Himself -- Peter Porter: In Memoriam -- Peter Porter: The Rest on the Flight -- Master Missed -- The Rivers Project -- Randolph Stow (1935–2010) -- Andrew Taylor: On Commissioning the Collected Poems for Salt Publishing -- Judith Wright: The Complexity of Design -- Vanishing Points -- Preface to Salt -- International Regionalism and Poetry etc. -- A Poet Laureate for Australia? God Forbid! -- The Work of Robert Sullivan -- The Steady Vision of a Modernist Makar -- On Patrick Lane, and Patrick Lane on Himself -- Plagiarism: A Beginner’s Guide -- From Assimilation to Multiculturalism -- A Poet of Understanding -- Wound Responses (with Rod Mengham) -- “Rich in Vitamin C” -- Primary Evidence -- A Panegyric -- Correspondents by the Metre -- The LANGUAGE Poets -- Memento Mori -- Show Me the Way to Go, Homer -- Geographies Seen and Unseen -- Healing the Damage Done -- Brooding Consequence -- Pastoral Metaphysics -- Codex of Myth -- The End Is Affirmation -- Fair Enough? -- Witness to Restoration -- Poet action of Desire Out of ‘Thraldom’ -- “This Enquiry Into You” -- Launch Speech as Object: On Niall Lucy’s Pomo Oz -- Seams of Confirmation and Doubt -- Missing the Boat -- A Book of Edges -- Fringe Benefits -- On the Poetry of Kate Lilley -- Seeing the Light: Redemptive Language -- Peaty Richness -- Driving and Binding -- Back in Black -- Theatre Reviews -- A Picture of Doctor Faustus -- A Gesture Towards a Poetics of Theatre -- My Comus, Milton’s Comus -- Onomastic Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: These volumes present John Kinsella’s uncollected critical writings and personal reflections from the early 1990's to the present. Included are extended pieces of memoir written in the Western Australian wheatbelt and the Cambridge fens, as well as acute essays and commentaries on the nature and genesis of personal and public poetics. Pivotal are a sense of place and how we write out of it; pastoral’s relevance to contemporary poetry; how we evaluate and critique (post)colonial creativity and intrusion into Indigenous spaces; and engaged analysis of activism and responsibility in poetry and literary discourse. The author is well-known for saying he is preeminently an “anarchist, vegan, pacifist” – not stock epithets, but the raison d’être behind his work. The collection moves from overviews of contemporary Australian poetry to studies of such writers as Randolph Stow, Ouyang Yu, Charmaine Papertalk–Green, Lionel Fogarty, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Dorothy Hewett, Judith Wright, Alamgir Hashmi, Patrick Lane, Robert Sullivan, C.K. Stead, and J.H. Prynne, and on to numerous book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, originally published in newspapers and journals from around the world. There are also searching reflections on visual artists (Sidney Nolan, Karl Wiebke, Shaun Atkinson) and wide-ranging opinion pieces and editorials. In counterpoint are conversations with other writers (Rosanna Warren, Rod Mengham, Alvin Pang, and Tracy Ryan) and explorations of schooling, being struck by lightning, ‘international regionalism’, hybridity, and experimental poetry. This two-volume argosy has been brought together by scholar and editor Gordon Collier, who has allowed the original versions to speak with their unique informal–formal ductus. Kinsella’s interest is in the ethics of space and how we use it. His considerations of the wheatbelt through Wagner and Dante (and rewritings of these), and, in Thoreauvian vein, his ‘place’ at Jam Tree Gully on the edge of Western Australia’s Avon Valley form a web of affirmation and anxiety: it is space he feels both part of and outside, embraced in its every magnitude but felt to be stolen land, whose restitution needs articulating in literature and in real time. Beneath it all is a celebration of the natural world – every plant, animal, rock, sentinel peak, and grain of sand – and a commitment to an ecological poetics.