this might be of interest to the list: it's the list of questions i
recently sent to the poets i have written about in that chapter. i also
sent the material to a novelist who belongs textually in more than one
zone.
best,
jk
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dear spatial geographers and others
i need urgent answers to these questions. your help would be greatly
appreciated. some of the questions are problematic, but that's part of the
take. i will be using your answers in a large essay on australian poetry i
am attempting to complete. thanks.
best,
jk
1. What do you understand by "community" with regard to poetry and poetic
practice? I'm particularly interested in notions of 'participation'.
2. How do you view "internationalism" in poetry.
3. Comment on spatiality and text.
4. It is said: "all poetry is political'. Please comment.
5. Is the whole built out of fragments? Should 'wholeness' be resisted. If
so, why? Does technique restrain the poem?
6. Is poetry definable? Comment on liminality.
7. Are there fixed points in every poem? What are a poems co-ordinates?
8. 'Natural', 'artificial', 'rural', 'urban': how do you map these spaces
in your poetry.
9. Discuss your intertextual lines of communication. And how this might
attach to ideas of community and participation.
10. What is Australian poetry?
11. Consider questions of 'colonisation' and 'appropriation' in your own
work and that of those you are 'presented' amongst.
12. What do you see as being relevant divisions and contentions between
groups of Australian poets? Are there zones and 'hot spots', realms of
influence and divisiveness?
13. Has the funding and prize culture influenced your working methods.
14. Discuss the notion of 'influence' and of 'influence' on your work?
15. Is there a new lyricism? Where goes the 'lyrical I' now?
16. Is publication relevant? How do you select (or target) publishing
fields?
17. What does the book mean?
18. Is it Australian English you write in/with? What of national identity
and your work. What of nationalism? What of poetries in languages other
than English in Australia.
19. Discuss 'gender' and your work.
20. Are you an explorer? A settler? An invader?
21: Discuss "grammar" and "editing" in terms of your work.
John Kinsella
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