Activist Poetics

Anarchy in the Avon Valley

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with - and often directly through - his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this important collection of essays the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of 'linguistic disobedience' evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-16
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781789621709

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Niall Lucy (1956-2014) was a Research Fellow with the Australia Research Institute and formerly Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he taught for many years in the Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies programs. John Kinsella is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Jam Tree Gully (2012), for which he won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016). His most recent critical book is Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University.

AcknowledgementsMap of Avon ValleyIntroduction: Blood Salt - Niall Lucy1. Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet2. Standing Up to Aggressors3. Why I Am a Pacifist4. Plagues Bioethics5. Refugees Australia6. Wheatbelt Isohalines the Making of Isopleths:The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ Other Subtexts associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems7. Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications8. Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities Anomalies of an Activist Poetics9. Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems10. Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration)11. De-mapping Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries –Mutually Said: Blogging Acting12. Poetry, Justice the Court13. The School of Environmental Poetics Creativity Coda: VisitorsAppendix 1. On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan InterviewsJohn KinsellaAppendix 2. Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella Tracy RyanReferenceIndex