Poet, Tree: Martin Harrison's 'Red Gum'

[...]Harrison's Kangaroo Farm dates not only from a period of creative ferment but also a time when Australian poetry was becoming newly, differently outward-looking. The pieces in that volume take up a series of issues that were on the front burner for poets and critics at the turn of the mill...

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Published inJournal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 1 - 11
Main Author Reed, Brian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sydney Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) 15.03.2018
Subjects
Academic writing
Allusion
Australian literature
Authorship
Baroque era
Creative writing
Creativity
Ecocriticism
Emotions
Essays
Fate
Harrison, Martin
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary influences
Literary studies
Logic
Memory
Metaphor
Museums
Philosophy
Poetry
Poets
Realism
Resonants
Sensory perception
Shoals
Time
Wind
Australia
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Summary:[...]Harrison's Kangaroo Farm dates not only from a period of creative ferment but also a time when Australian poetry was becoming newly, differently outward-looking. The pieces in that volume take up a series of issues that were on the front burner for poets and critics at the turn of the millennium: the impact of the digital communications revolution on literary production; the deleterious effects of poststructuralist philosophy on writerly style; the inappropriateness of genius-parades and genealogies as default models for literary history; the search for usable post-Cold War, postnationalist frames for discussing literature; and an uneasiness regarding the institutionalisation of creative writing as an academic discipline. Gusts and gusts of invisible wind shake the branches into horse-heads, neighing and rearing, into shoals of silver- let loose, they're mares floury with dusty evening light under trees, in a paddock, back of the mind. (94) There are touches of descriptive realism here-'gusts of . . . wind shake the branches,' 'Behind it [are] yacht masts and yellow water taxis,' 'Across the bay . . . cars glide by'-but the poem primarily concerns itself with delivering one metaphor after another.
ISSN:1447-8986