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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry
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'Australia has a rich history of feminist poetry but there is no one kind of feminist voice.

'Each of the seventy new poems commissioned for this anthology cuts its own path through language. Together, their politics are restless, inextricably tied to the now.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:Hunter Publishers , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Walking through Glass, Bonny Cassidy , Jessica Wilkinson , single work poetry
'Feminists are humans aware of a common pressure upon their lives. For poets, that awareness is of course felt and conveyed through language. How they observe, undo and reset language is crucial to the poetic act, if it is to have more than sentimental or decorative effect. There is a line from an early British feminist anthology: Feminists have to be more conscious than Anyone else' (Mohin, 5) This might be why poetry continues to be such and active site of feminist question, because it's where the medium of our consciousness is most pressurised and the illusion of 'nature' falls away.' (Introduction)
(p. ix-xix)
Swiveli"the swivel chair. its screws are loose. it sits and stares. it roominates. who is", Joanne Burns , single work poetry poetry (p. 1)
Visionsi"The presenters come to me.", Ali Smith , single work poetry (p. 2)
Women Telli"it would be nice", Geraldine Burrowes , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
An Imagined Stand-up Seti"Let me start with a joke.", Izzy Roberts-Orr , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
She Will Be Praisedi"reach back and bring me", Gabrielle Higgins , single work poetry (p. 7)
Chi / Ck Centoi"/", Dael Allison , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Ideas for Novels 8i"Herstory stories", Anna Couani , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Breaking Down / Water Columnsi"She tried writing what could be", Autumn Royal , single work poetry (p. 12)
Features on Artistic Women Who Live by the Sea in UK Magazinesi"They are dark-haired, solitary types", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
The Novelisti"For instance, in Ischia. Those dark corners where the sound does not.", Bella Li , single work poetry (p. 15)
Calendar / (After) Urne Buriali"content with their tender fears they deal in all newcomers", Lindsay Tuggle , Kate Middleton , single work poetry (p. 16-20)
Crease Marksi"I love the way your letters are porous:", Rosalind McFarlane , single work poetry (p. 21)
Artistsi"I learnt from the woman", Jennifer Mackenzie , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Endowed through Marriage with an Aristocratic Titlei"So she _____ her ___________. Next she", Pascalle Burton , single work poetry (p. 24)
Vivi"You like to eat the Fisherman's Basket on Mondays. You squirt", Cassandra Atherton , single work poetry (p. 25)
She's Talking about Her Gothic Chairi"Can one marry a tree? Carve its form", Michelle Leber , single work poetry (p. 26)
Hidden Naturei"Young girls walk past me in bikinis on Hunter Street", Kait Fenwick , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
Blood Days : Monochordsi"Dawn clouds, red as history, press down : I linger under sky-soft counterpane", Felicity Plunkett , single work poetry (p. 29)
'A Decidedly Pathological Process:i"akin to falling on a pitch-", Felicity Plunkett , single work poetry (p. 30-31)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Hunter Publishers , 2016 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 122p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2016
      ISBN: 9780994352873

Works about this Work

They Will Oxidise Before You Even Finish Reading Kent MacCarter , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 18-23)

'Einstein’s theory of general relativity states that matter can cataclysmically implode, creating a state where a given density and the space-time curvature split towards infinite values. This is referred to as a singularity, or – as it is known to ordinary folk – a black hole. Extending out from a black hole’s unfathomably dense centre and extraordinary gravitational pull is a finite volume of space that ends in an event horizon: a demarcation – a line in the cosmic sands – from which nothing inside can escape: not rock, metal, Judas Priest, photons, alliteration or anything else. The closer that matter gets to a singularity, the more the laws of physics fail, eventually collapsing entirely.'  (Introduction)

Poets Live and Fictive : Five Collections Martin Langford , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 76 no. 1 2017; (p. 182-188)

'Chorale at the Crossing ‘gathers together the work Porter completed after the publication of his final collection, Better than God’. It is an uneven book, with some very good poems, and some, such as ‘A Chip off the Old Blog’, which are little more than creative doodles: one suspects a few of its inclusions are for the sake of having enough poems for a book. That said, there are a dozen or so fully realised pieces, and a few that would make it into the most compact of Porter selecteds. Sean O’Brien has contributed a brief but useful introduction, and Christine Porter has written a thoughtful little afterword on one poem, ‘The Hermit Crab’—a genre we could use a lot more of, judging by the puzzlement with which unpractised but otherwise intelligent readers so often meet contemporary poetry.' (Introduction)

Siobhan Hodge Reviews Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry Siobhan Hodge , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017;
'Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry presents a compelling cross-section of feminist voices, experiences and engagements in Australia, picking up from where Kate Jenning’s 1975 feminist anthology Mother, I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets left off. Bonny Cassidy and Jessica Wilkinson have collated new voices and criticisms, rich in their variety, yet presenting a thematically harmonious, unified front.' (Introduction)
Walking through Glass Bonny Cassidy , Jessica Wilkinson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. ix-xix)
'Feminists are humans aware of a common pressure upon their lives. For poets, that awareness is of course felt and conveyed through language. How they observe, undo and reset language is crucial to the poetic act, if it is to have more than sentimental or decorative effect. There is a line from an early British feminist anthology: Feminists have to be more conscious than Anyone else' (Mohin, 5) This might be why poetry continues to be such and active site of feminist question, because it's where the medium of our consciousness is most pressurised and the illusion of 'nature' falls away.' (Introduction)
Siobhan Hodge Reviews Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry Siobhan Hodge , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 57 2017;
'Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry presents a compelling cross-section of feminist voices, experiences and engagements in Australia, picking up from where Kate Jenning’s 1975 feminist anthology Mother, I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets left off. Bonny Cassidy and Jessica Wilkinson have collated new voices and criticisms, rich in their variety, yet presenting a thematically harmonious, unified front.' (Introduction)
Walking through Glass Bonny Cassidy , Jessica Wilkinson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. ix-xix)
'Feminists are humans aware of a common pressure upon their lives. For poets, that awareness is of course felt and conveyed through language. How they observe, undo and reset language is crucial to the poetic act, if it is to have more than sentimental or decorative effect. There is a line from an early British feminist anthology: Feminists have to be more conscious than Anyone else' (Mohin, 5) This might be why poetry continues to be such and active site of feminist question, because it's where the medium of our consciousness is most pressurised and the illusion of 'nature' falls away.' (Introduction)
Poets Live and Fictive : Five Collections Martin Langford , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 76 no. 1 2017; (p. 182-188)

'Chorale at the Crossing ‘gathers together the work Porter completed after the publication of his final collection, Better than God’. It is an uneven book, with some very good poems, and some, such as ‘A Chip off the Old Blog’, which are little more than creative doodles: one suspects a few of its inclusions are for the sake of having enough poems for a book. That said, there are a dozen or so fully realised pieces, and a few that would make it into the most compact of Porter selecteds. Sean O’Brien has contributed a brief but useful introduction, and Christine Porter has written a thoughtful little afterword on one poem, ‘The Hermit Crab’—a genre we could use a lot more of, judging by the puzzlement with which unpractised but otherwise intelligent readers so often meet contemporary poetry.' (Introduction)

They Will Oxidise Before You Even Finish Reading Kent MacCarter , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 18-23)

'Einstein’s theory of general relativity states that matter can cataclysmically implode, creating a state where a given density and the space-time curvature split towards infinite values. This is referred to as a singularity, or – as it is known to ordinary folk – a black hole. Extending out from a black hole’s unfathomably dense centre and extraordinary gravitational pull is a finite volume of space that ends in an event horizon: a demarcation – a line in the cosmic sands – from which nothing inside can escape: not rock, metal, Judas Priest, photons, alliteration or anything else. The closer that matter gets to a singularity, the more the laws of physics fail, eventually collapsing entirely.'  (Introduction)

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