Stuart Cooke

Stuart’s books include the poetry collections Lyre (2019) and Opera (2016), and George Dyuŋgayan’s Bulu Line: a West Kimberley song cycle (2014). He lives in Brisbane, on Turrbal and Jagera land, where he lectures in creative writing and literary studies at Griffith University.

All essays by Stuart Cooke

Writers at Work Essay: Stuart Cookeon writing

In Relation to Relations

The lyric’s charge always catalyses new arrangements: it crackles not only through the recording, but across forms and bodies in elaborate, improvised, staged and/or filmic choreographies. Similarly, I tend to think not only of the charge of my language, but about how this charge might propel the poem into distributions across an open field, or how it might slip through the crevices between words into arrays of diacritical marks—dashes, brackets, loops, shapes, even photographs.
May. 2020 • • •
Review: Stuart Cookeon David Brooks
  • Open House by David Brooks Cover
  • Open House by David Brooks University of Queensland Press
    168pp
    $24.95 AU
    Published January, 2015
    ISBN 9780702253522

The sudden urge for poetry: Open House by David Brooks

Open House is part of the continued resurgence of David Brooks as a poet. Although he has now published four collections of poetry since 2005, the first of these, Walking to Point Clear, was his first in 22 years. He is also the author of novels, short fiction, essays and non-fiction: Open House is part of a much larger field of language-making.

Aug. 2015 • •