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2020
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Plumwood Mountain [Online]
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Plumwood Mountain [Online]
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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Nobody’s Voice : to Hear What Is Unheard as a Pressing Task for Poetics Today,
single work
criticism
'In the age of the Anthropocene, we can no longer trust the human voice to say the truth of things. In a twisted, perverted way, the Anthropocene condemns human ‘saying’ as false and misleading while affirming the human as the only one who can say anything at all. This paradox of the human voice – a voice that is unable to tell the truth in its very capacity to tell the truth – is what besets us today. Is there a voice that can speak out of this paradox without its paradoxical claim on what is said? In this article I will work with the possibility of a poetics that speaks with nature in a poietic voice: not the human voice that speaks paradoxically, but the voice unheard in this very speaking. To attempt such a task I will invoke the work of the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, who proposes a poetics of the figural from the perspective of the eye over the voice. My claim is that to arrive at a non-Anthropocentric way of poetic saying we must go by way of the eye over the voice. We do not hear what is seen; rather, in what is seen we hear. This article will focus on the saying of nature in two poems: Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Rock’, and John Ryan’s ‘I Turned the Corner and Entered the Mind of the Beech Forest’. While Stevens’s poem speaks with the Anthropos, unable to hear the other who cannot speak back, Ryan’s poem speaks after the Anthropos with nobody’s voice heard in the poem’s visual presentation. There is no other to speak back, only the fall into oblivion: a fall into nature where the voice is heard.' (Publication abstract)
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Wild Yam Dreaming : The Phytopoetics of Emily Kame Kngwarreye,
single work
criticism
'Anmatyerre elder and artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996) of the Utopia community, Northern Territory, Australia, featured the growth patterns of the pencil yam (Vigna lanceolata) prominently in works such as Untitled (Yam) (1981), Anooralya – Wild Yam (1989) and Yam Dreaming (1996) as well as a number of black-and-white renderings. Through the yam-art of Kngwarreye, this article considers human-vegetal entanglements in Aboriginal Australian societies. Integral to appreciating Kngwarreye’s paintings, the plant-poiesis-people conjunction calls prominence to ancestral—or Dreaming—knowledge of yams not only as providores of material sustenance but also as agential beings-in-themselves who culture humankind across space and time.' (Introduction)
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Adele Dumont Reviews The Grass Library by David Brooks,
single work
review
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography ; -
Annelise Roberts Reviews Crow College by Emma Lew,
single work
review
— Review of Crow College : New and Selected Poems 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Annelise Roberts Reviews The Ls by Judy Annear,
single work
review
— Review of The Ls 2019 selected work poetry ; -
C J Vallis Reviews Stranger Country by Monica Tan,
single work
review
— Review of Stranger Country 2019 single work autobiography ; -
David Smith Reviews Swamp by Nandi Chinna,
single work
review
— Review of Swamp : Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain 2014 selected work poetry ; -
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa Reviews between Wind and Water by Berni M Janssen, Ada Unseen by Frances Presley and Fate News by Norma Cole,
single work
review
— Review of Between Wind and Water : In a Vulnerable Place 2018 selected work poetry ; -
Julia Clark Reviews Acting Like a Girl by Sandra Renew,
single work
review
— Review of Acting Like a Girl 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Lucas Smith Reviews Belief by Les Wicks,
single work
review
— Review of Belief 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Mary Cresswell Reviews Empirical by Lisa Gorton,
single work
review
— Review of Empirical 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Nikoleta Zampaki Reviews Workbook Questions : Writing of Torture, Trauma Experience by Margaret Bennett and Jennifer Maiden,
single work
review
— Review of Workbook Questions : Writing of Torture, Trauma Experience 2019 multi chapter work criticism ; -
Phillip Hall Reviews Summer Haiku by Owen Bullock and Breathing in Stormy Seasons by Stephanie Green,
single work
review
— Review of Summer Haiku 2019 selected work poetry ; Breathing in the Stormy Seasons 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Simone King Reviews The Tomb of the Unknown Artist by Andy Kissane,
single work
review
— Review of The Tomb of the Unknown Artist 2019 selected work poetry ; -
Wendy Fleming Reviews The Intimacy of Strangers Edited by Philip Porter and Andy Kissane,
single work
review
— Review of The Intimacy of Strangers : North Shore Poetry Project 2018 anthology poetry ;
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