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1 On Professing Poetry in Australia in the 21st Century Simon Haines , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016; 'Why would an institution calling itself a university still, in the 21st century, be employing a “professor of poetry”? Surely no-one of the millennial generation would want to spend a lot of money which could have been spent on more professional training, just to be able to talk or write about Les Murray, T.S. Eliot or John Donne? Who are, in any case, all reactionary and/or misogynist. Borderline racist, even. Certainly all white; all men. How about Emily Dickinson, then? Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou? But surely those who want to will read these poets in their own time? Only the wealthy, or the terminally pretentious, could afford to waste these precious years of education chattering about “Hope is the thing with feathers” or “Phenomenal Woman” or “a country far away as health”. Nor is this only a matter of private expense. A good deal of the financial burden of this professorship is born by the public purse. What could the public utility of such a role possibly be?' (Introduction)
1 Academic Who Championed Life of the Mind Simon Haines , 2009 single work obituary (for Graham Cullum )
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 September 2009; (p. 19)
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