Celan and Me
I came to poetry after training as a historian. I had an undergraduate degree in history and went to the University of Pennsylvania to undertake a... Read more →
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With Us, Against Us
Although I have been interested in and written poetry for over a decade, I have not toiled long in the poetry bureaucratic apparatus. I use ‘the... Read more →
Literature in Australia: Adding Value
In Australia of late, there has been a conversation around arts funding and merit. It seems though that people in the literary bureaucratic... Read more →
Poetry Benefits
Leaving aside the material ills of big businesses, the desired undialectical unity of most corporations is problematic. Hence, corporate social... Read more →
A Vision for Australian Poetry
At the level of cohesive vision and organisational strategy, poetry in Australia is struggling. This is unsurprising, given the protean and multiple... Read more →
White Skin, Black Masks?
When Bernie Sanders was pushed from a Seattle stage by Black Lives Matter activists in August, I wondered about the efficacy of the action. That one... Read more →
Mall Poetry
A certain class of American spends part of the summer in Paris drinking café au lait and visiting Shakespeare and Co. Another will venture upstate... Read more →
Letterpress Down Under
Letterpress in Australia is very different to letterpress in the United States. This is not only due to size, but culture. Australia is twenty times... Read more →
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Hearing Voices
The poetry I like is not always the poetry I read, or rather, the poetry I read is not always the poetry I like. I read mainly contemporary... Read more →
At Woodberry
Earlier this month I visited the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. Founded in 1931 in Widener Library, the room is named in honor of... Read more →
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