Justin Clemens

Justin Clemens is the author of Barron Field in New South Wales (Melbourne UP 2023), co-written with Thomas H. Ford; also, of A Foul Wind (Hunter 2023) and Limericks, Philosophical and Literary (Surpllus 2019). He teaches at the University of Melbourne.

Works By Justin Clemens

The Age Demanded My Fellow Critics
Justin Clemens reviews the critic Ryan Ruby’s ‘poem containing a history of poetry’, holding the work up against its literary precedents as well as its own claims to formal and conceptual novelty. Is the critic’s wit to advantage dressed in verse?...
28 Feb. 2025
Attachment Theory
I then attempt to unblock the blocked emails which, it turns out, come with attached sets of proofs marked HIGH PRIORITY as, due to outsourced publishing deadlines, the expected turnaround is prohibitively tight...
12 Sept. 2019
Noise and Voice: An Interview with Amanda Stewart
A lot of my trajectory has been determined by work. A lot of the influences that came into my work from radio, from Europe, from working in the music and sound poetry scenes in Europe, and a little bit of poetry, were also for making a living. So,...
2 Oct. 2017
Eternity is coming: The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou
Despite the title, The Age of the Poets is not a dedicated treatise on poetry or its history, but a collection of occasional essays on various aspects of the literary process from Badiou’s philosophical point of view.
19 Feb. 2015
‘All he is at this point is brains and sex’: Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
Walter Benjamin was born on 15 July 1892, mere hours after the commemoration of Bastille Day. It is hard to avoid making something allegorical of this insignificant contingency, given that for the rest of his relatively brief life Benjamin would a...
25 Mar. 2014
Aggressively middling: The Bourgeois & Distant Reading by Franco Moretti
It was when I turned to The Bourgeois that I really got a sense of Moretti’s epistemological superiority over most of his humanities competitors... It is not that the scientific team-man has simply trumped or supplanted the delicately tuned aesthe...
16 July. 2013

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Justin Clemens

Works By Justin Clemens

The Age Demanded My Fellow Critics

Attachment Theory

Noise and Voice: An Interview with Amanda Stewart

Eternity is coming: The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou

‘All he is at this point is brains and sex’: Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Aggressively middling: The Bourgeois & Distant Reading by Franco Moretti