The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Seminar
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris, the lover and lifelong partner of Patrick White, who turned her away. Patrick was already seated at his desk. He would brook no interruption. Irked yet…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of his career posing bold questions. What did it mean, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to reconceptualise the novel as a work…
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Seminar
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation Join us for a session with poet Rae Armantrout as she explores the relationship between poetry and environmental crisis. Armantrout will read and discuss selected eco-poems from her collection Go Figure (2024) and recent unpublished works that…
In conversation with Kate Lilley
Seminar
Join us for a very special event, a dialogue between Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout and major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will discuss poetry and poetics. Rae Armantrout’s books include Finalists, Wobble, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot and Versed…
Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. From the radical politics and poetic experimentalism of Kargun (1980) to the complex poetics of address in Harvest Lingo (2022), Wakka Wakka poet Lionel Fogarty…
Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar
Book launch
Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar: Catherine Vidler (1973-2023) was one of Australia’s foremost visual and lyric poets, editor of the Trans-Tasman literary magazine Snorkel, author of Furious Triangle (Puncher & Wattman, 2011), Wings (Cordite, 2021)…
Postcolonialism in Australian Literature: The Case of Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
Seminar
This seminar brings together postcolonial literary theory and contemporary political theory. Students of Australian politics tend to separate political and literary theory, preferring to leave literary theory to experts in Australian and comparative literature. My aim here is to draw the two modes…