In this special Poetry & Poetics event, three writers will hold a critical conversation about three poets: Danish innovator Inger Christensen, Caribbean-Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip, and Canadian poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. Join three of WSU’s leading researchers in poetics – award-winning poet and translator Dr Peter Boyle, critical theorist Dr Jason Tuckwell, and poet and editor Emily Stewart – as they perform a collaborative reading of three contemporary writers, while reflecting upon their own creative and research practices.

Peter Boyle brings to the panel Inger Christensen’s iconic work alphabet (1981). He will reflect upon traces of Christensen’s influence within his own new book-length poem Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness, due for publication late in 2018. Jason Tuckwell will discuss excerpts from M. NourbeSe Philips’ influential work of archival poetics Zong! (2006). Via critical readings of key modernist texts, he will ask how Philips repurposes modernist textual methods away from l’art pour l’art and towards explorations of race, archival decolonisation, and the poetical work of mourning. Emily Stewart will address Lisa Robertson’s “Fourth Walk” from Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture (2003; revised ed. 2010), speculating on the contemporary significance of urban walking as a mode of creative and critical praxis.

The event will be facilitated by Dr Kate Fagan as part of the WSU Poetry and Poetics research node. It will conclude with readings of original work by all three panel participants, followed by afternoon tea. Free event; all welcome.

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Abstract: Along with anything inherently personal and experiential in my writing I have turned to a range of processes deliberately linking my work to that of others – both predecessors and contemporaries. This has involved the exploration of translation as a form of composition, but also related procedures like collage, appropriation, and the making of large anthology-like works such as Technicians of the Sacred and Barbaric Vast & Wild, the totality of which I speak of as “othering”. My presentation here will offer a chronology of such works of mine and others, with an emphasis on “total translation” in the 1980s and “variations” and “autovariations” in the present.

Professor Jerome Rothenberg (UCSD) is an internationally celebrated poet, translator, anthologist and performer who is renowned as an instigator of the 20th century critical movement known as ethnopoetics. His publishing career includes over ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry including Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poems from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania (1968), which celebrates its fiftieth year with a revised and expanded edition, to be launched while Rothenberg is in Australia. Additonal anthologies include Shaking the Pumpkin (traditional American Indian poetry), Exiled in the Word (a.k.a. A Big Jewish Book), and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson, Poems for the Millennium, Volumes 1-3. He has been a longtime practitioner and theorist of poetry performance. His most recent long collections are Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (2013) and Barbaric Vast & Wild: Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present (Volume 5 of Poems for the Millennium, 2015). A new book of poems, A Field on Mars: Poems 2000-2015, has just appeared in separate English and French editions.

Professor Jerome Rothenberg continues to have a profound impact in contemporary poetry, translation and poetic theory. The English Department of the University of Sydney will host Professor Rothenberg on a week-long visit to Sydney, following his keynote address at the “Literary Environments: Place, Planet and Translation” Conference at Griffith University. The Poetry and Poetics Project and the Writing & Society Research Centre are honoured to present this research seminar at Western Sydney University as part of that visit.

Jerome Rothenberg’s blog

Jerome Rothenberg on the Poetry Foundation website

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