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Participating keynotes and poets
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a Professor of English at Temple University and author of Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work and the now reprinted landmark collection, The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (both by U of Alabama P, 2006). DuPlessis is also the author of Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), both from Indiana University Press, and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990). She is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke University Press, 1990), and the co-editor with Peter Quartermain of The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (University of Alabama Press, 1999). The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation, co-edited with Ann Snitow, was published by Three Rivers/Crown in 1998; it will be reprinted by Rutgers University Press in 2007. She is also the co-editor with Susan Stanford Friedman, of Signets: Reading H.D. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990). Her recent books of poetry are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and DRAFTS. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, Unnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Torques: Drafts 58-76 is forthcoming. An interview of DuPlessis conducted by Jeanne Heuving appears in Contemporary Literature (2004).
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Lionel Fogarty
A deeply political poet, Lionel Fogarty is a leading spokesman for indigenous rights in Australia. Fogarty writes an innovative, passionate poetry, transforming the language and forms of Europe to resist its colonising force and, in the process, generates new connections between the Australian land, its people, and modern life. His books include Dha'gun Jabree Djan Mitti: The More Complete Works of Lionel Fogarty (Salt Publishing, 2008), New and Selected Poems: Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera (Hyland House, 1995), Booyooburra: A Story of the Wakka Murri (Hyland House, 1993), Ngutji (Cheryl Buchanan, 1984), Yoogum Yoogum (Penguin, 1982), and Kargun (Cheryl Buchanan, 1980).
Lionel Fogarty's attendance at Poetry and the Trace Conference is supported by a Routledge ABES Travel Grant, and by the Centre for Postcolonial Writing at Monash University
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John Kinsella
John Kinsella is a renowned international poet whose work crosses multiple genres. His poetry—which often takes the Western Australian wheatbelt as its subject—can be intensely lyrical and daring in its innovation. He has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Grace Leven Award, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Age Poetry Book of the Year, the Western Australia Premier’s Book Award for Poetry, a Young Australian Creative Fellowship, and senior fellowships for the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He is the author of numerous collections, including Full Fathom Five (FACP, 1993), Szygy (FACP, 1993), The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony (FACP, 1995), Erratum/Frame(d) (FACP, 1995), The Undertow: New and Selected Poems (Arc, 1996), Genre (FACP, 1997), Poems 1980-1994 (FACP, 1997), The Hunt: Poems (FACP, 1998), Grappling Eros (FACP, 1998), The Hierarchy of Sheep (FACP, 2001), Auto (Salt, 2001), Doppler Effect (Salt, 2004), The New Arcadia: Poems (FACP; Norton, 2005), Fast, Loose Beginnings (Melbourne University Press, 2006), and Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (Manchester University Press, 2008) among many others. Besides a number of collaborations with poet Tracy Ryan, he is co-author of Wheatlands with Dorothy Hewett (FACP, 1999) and Zoo with Coral Hull (Paper Bark, 2000). He has edited a number of Salt anthologies, as well as Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry (FACP, 1999), Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective (UQP, 2002), Western Australian Writing: An On-Line Anthology, School Days (FACP, 2007), and the forthcoming anthology, Dreamhoard (Salt, 2008). With Rod Mengham, he co-edited Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetry in English (Arc, 2001) and Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (Salt, 2004). His work is the subject of the scholarly collection, Fairly Obsessive: Essays on the Works of John Kinsella, ed. Rod Mengham and Glen Phillips (2000).
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Peter Minter
Peter Minter is a leading contemporary Australian poet, editor and scholar who lectures in Indigenous Studies and Poetics at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including The Age Poetry Book of the Year award (Empty Texas), the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (Poetry) and fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. His editorial projects include founding the Varuna New Poetry broadsheet and co-founding and co-editing Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. He was poetry editor of Meanjin from 2000-2005, during which time he guest edited two special issues: ‘Poetics’ (2001) and ‘Indigenous Australia’ (2006). More recently, he is a co-editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature (2008) and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2009). His poems appear in many eminent Australian and international publications including The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, and his fifth book of poetry, blue grass, is published by Salt Publishing.
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Joan Retallack
Joan Retallack is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.
Her most recent book is Gertrude Stein: Selections (University of California Press, 2008).
She is the author of seven books of poetry, including Memnoir (Post-Apollo Press, 2004), How to Do Things with Words (Sun & Moon, 1998), Afterrimages (Wesleyan University Press, 1995), and Errata Suite (Edge Books). She is also the author of The Poethical Wager ( University of California Press, 2004) and Musicage. Cage Muses on Art and Music. John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (Wesleyan University Press, 1996). With Juliana Spahr, she edited the collection Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
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Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is the author of five books of poems, including The Forest, Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the forthcoming Red Rover. Her many prose works include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won both the Christian Gauss and Truman Capote prizes for literary criticism, and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics, a collection of her work on visual art. Recently she co-edited TriQuarterly 127: Contemporary Italian Poetry and her translation of the selected poems of Alda Merini will appear in 2008. The Annan Professor of English at Princeton University, she is a former MacArthur fellow, a current Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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John Tranter
One of Australia’s best-known and lauded poets, John Tranter has published over twenty books of poetry, including The Floor of Heaven (Angus and Robertson, 1992; rpt. University of Queensland Press, 2007), Trio (Salt, 2003), Studio Moon (Salt, 2003), BorrowedVoices (Shoestring Press, 2002), HeartPrint (Salt, 2001), Ultra (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2001), Late Night Radio (University of Edinburgh Press, 1998), At the Florida (University of Queensland Press, 1993), Under Berlin (University of Queensland Press, 1988), and Selected Poems (Hale and Iremonger, 1983) among others. His latest collection, Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected ( University of Queensland Press, 2006) has won the 2006 Victorian State Award for Poetry, the 2007 New South Wales State Award for Poetry, the 2008 South Australian State Award for Poetry, and the 2008 South Australia Premier’s Prize. Tranter’s poetry is not only stylish, playful, and witty but also finely tuned at capturing the everyday and idiomatic elements of Australian culture. Tranter is also the author of the experimental fiction, Different Hands (FACP, 1998), editor of Martin Johnston: Selected Poems and Prose (University of Queensland Press, 1993), and co-editor with Philip Mead of the landmark anthology The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (Penguin, 1991). In 1997, he founded Jacket (jacketmagazine.com), arguably the most widely-read and respected poetry magazine today. In 2004, he established Australian Literature Resources which has since expanded into APRIL (http://april.edu.au).
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Book Launches
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David Brooks is a poet, short-fiction writer, essayist and novelist, Associate Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, and co-editor of Southerly. His most recent publications are Urban Elegies (poetry, Island Press, 2007) and his second novel, The Fern Tattoo (UQP, 2007: short-listed for the 2008 Miles Franklin Award). The Balcony, his fourth collection of poetry (also UQP), will be launched at the conference, as will The Golden Boat (Salt, 2008), a selection of poetry by Srecko Kosovel (‘the Slovenian Rimbaud’), translated with Bert Pribac (see http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smpt/9781844714377.htm ).
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Martin Harrison
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Philip Mead was born in Brisbane in 1953 and educated in Queensland, the U.K. and in the United States. He has been associated with poetry publishing, particularly in little magazines, since 1972. From 1987 to 1994 he was Poetry Editor of Meanjin Quarterly magazine and Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. With John Tranter, he edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1992). His edited collection of essays, Kenneth Slessor - Critical Readings appeared with University of Queensland Press in 1997. He has also edited selections of poetry by Frank Wilmot, Selected Poetry and Prose (Melbourne University Press, 1997) and David Campbell, Hardening of the Light (Ginnenderra, 2007). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania.
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Hazel Smith is a research professor in the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. From 2002-2007 she was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, and a member of the Sonic Communications Research Group. Before that she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales where she founded the Creative Writing program.
Hazel Smith's The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works (with an
accompanying CD-Rom of works by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean). Book will be launched by Joy Wallace, Charles Sturt University.
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