Poetry On The Move: Recent Episodes
Shane Strange
A podcast on contemporary poetry and poetics from IPSI, the International Poetry Studies Institute. It includes interviews and readings of contemporary poetry.
In this episode the first of a two-part podcast ‘Poetry that Resists’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. During the socially traumatised times of history the ability of poetry to express human conscience has seen it embraced as a significant art form. In this panel, a discussion on poets […]
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Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a
scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly
translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translations
from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad,
and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds)
have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this
discussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speak
together about the "art" of translating poetry
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival.
Bella Li is the author of Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the 2018 Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her work has been published in a range of journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems and The Kenyon Review, and displayed in the Triennial of the National Gallery of Victoria. Her latest book is Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, 2018).
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival.
Oz Hardwick is a writer, photographer,music journalist, and occasional musician,
based in York (UK).. He has published six poetry collections, most recently TheHouse of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017), and hasedited and co-edited
several more, including (with Miles Salter) The Valley Press Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry, which was aNational Poetry Day recommendation in
2017.
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival.
Jill Jones has published 11 full-length books of poetry, including Viva the Real (UQP, 2018), Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival.
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök teaches English at Charles Darwin University
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Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet, writer and translator whose latest books are Keeping time with Blue Hyacinths and her highly-regarded translation of Attar’s Conference of the Birds.
Wolpé ’s literary work includes four collections of
poetry, two plays, three books of translations, and three anthologies. Wolpé ’s
writings have been translated into eleven languages and included in numerous
American and international anthologies and journals of poetry and fiction. Her
writings have been featured on programs such as Selected Shorts and PRI. She has lived in the UK and Trinidad, and is a Visiting Associate
Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Sholeh Wolpe was an
international poet in residence at 2018’s Poetry on the Move festival. Here she
‘takes us on a journey’ through her life and poetry and introduces many of us
to the delights of Attar’s work.
In conjunction with the
Poetry on the Move festival, selected guests are commissioned to produce a
chapbook of work new to Australian audiences. The series is linked to a program
of poets in residence at the University of Canberra.
Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo based poet, translator and professor of critical theory at Meiji University. He is well known for his ten books of essays of which Transversal Journeys (2010) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan.
Moira Egan is an American poet/translator who lives
in Rome. She has published eight volumes of poetry (five in the US, three in
Italy); the most recent of these are Synæsthesium (The New Criterion Prize, 2017) and Olfactorium (Italic PeQuod, 2018). Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared
in numerous journals and anthologies on four continents.
Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, and The Uncommon Feast (2018) by Recent Work Press. Her work has shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
In this panel, Lines and Shapes, taken from 2018’s Poetry on the Move festival, four poets discuss the importance of form in and for poetry. How does a consideration of form affect composition? Is form a conservative call to tradition, or a rediscovery that allows poets to explore new ways of working?
We’ll hear this question addressed by in turn, Lisa Gorton, Owen Bullock, Lisa Brockwell and Cassandra Atherton. Before opening up to a group discussion moderated by the host of the panel, Paul Munden.
Lionel Fogarty is one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers. A Yugambeh man, Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths in custody. He has published numerous collections of poetry in Australia.His most recent collections include Mogwie Idan: Stories of the land (Vagabond Press, 2012), Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) (Vagabond Press, 2014), and Selected Works 1980-2016 (re.press, 2017).
Lionel’s is an uncompromising vision, tempered by years of activism and community engagement.
Lionel was a guest of the Poetry on the Move festival where we were lucky enough to hear him reading a selection of work taken from across his career.
Lionel was also interviewed by IPSI’s Jen Crawford and Paul Collis, where we catch him responding to a question on the potentials of Indigenous writing in Australia.
This episode hosted by Shane Strange