Poetry

Can the analogy between poetry and work help us understand capitalism in the contemporary moment? Is poetry itself a form of work? 

If extraordinary things (‘mirabilia’) attract our attention and interest us, it seems inevitable that our perceptions will either occlude or…

Within the popular imagination, Rumi’s poetry is inextricably entwined with love – a love that is resolutely unfettered, an unconditional love that permeates the cosmos, caressing one and all.

These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through.

Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail.

By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title.

Revenants creates a liminal zone of perception in Adam Aitken’s oeuvre.

knowledge as a body is dead without imagination— Jordie Albiston In the wake of the loss of Australian poet Jordie…

Wild Curious Air finds its material in what has come before, digs into the turbulence and profusion of the present, and propagates the demand that we attend to the reality and urgency of this moment.

How can poetics work to recover meaningful spaces of ecological acknowledgement and encounter? In Earth Dwellers, Lang demonstrates the complicity of language in severing the Earth from ourselves.