POETRY

ON THE
MOVE
616 SEPTEMBER 2016

poetry adventures
on and off the page
 POETRY
ON THE
MOVE
poetry adventures
on and off the page
616 SEPTEMBER 2016

A two-week festival of poetry, organised by

the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI)
in the Faculty of Arts and Design
at the University of Canberra
POETRY ON THE MOVE 2016
Introduction

Welcome to a second year of Poetry on the Move at the University of Canberra. We are
pleased that some of last year's emerging themes have been sustained and represented
in this new program, notably prose poetry, poetry in translation, and 'material poetics'.
The program also provides a number of linked events workshops that derive from
other happenings (e.g. The Poets' Train), or which lead to performances at our final
celebratory event. None of this plays safe; indeed 'risk' is a major theme: risk in
attempting new departures in one's writing ('chancing your arm' as Simon Armitage
puts it); risk in revising one's work; and risk in pushing the boundaries of performance,
as demonstrated by Tusiata Avia. We have also taken the unusual step of bringing
together the worlds of the poetry slam and poetry in academia. While exploring
poetry's adventurous manifestations beyond the page, we focus too on the future of
book and journal publishing, bringing together a group of leading Australian poetry
publishers. IPSI's own new publications will be launched, together with those of
Recent Work Press, a new ACT publisher.

We welcome poets of international standing from England, Scotland, New Zealand and
Singapore, while also featuring many leading Australian poets including those based
in Canberra, many of whom have substantial reputations. Some 50 poets (and
publishers) are listed, but the number will be swelled by students and staff taking part
in the caf readings, and the prize winners invited to our final celebratory day, the
names of which are as yet unknown. We are delighted that the University's new Vice-
Chancellor, Professor H. Deep Saini, will present the International Poetry Prize, now in
its third year.

Most events are free and on the University campus in Bruce, (see the map at
www.canberra.edu.au/maps/campus-map); larger events are in the Theatrette (1A21)
behind Mizzuna caf; workshops are in 1C75. For the full day symposium we move to
the Ann Harding Centre, and for the weekend off campus: to Gorman House; the
National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery; and to Belconnen Arts
Centre. Eventbrite booking pages for each event are accessible from the IPSI website.

Last year the pacing of the festival met with approval, and while including more
individual events this year we have tried to keep some essential breathing space. The
variety of events will no doubt attract a variety of interest, but we do of course hope to
see many of you repeatedly during what promises to be an exciting 11 days.

Paul Munden, Program Manager, International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI)

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Poets in Residence
As part of our international agenda we are delighted to be welcoming two poets in
residence: Simon Armitage from the UK and Tusiata Avia from New Zealand. Each has
contributed new work that we are publishing in our series of IPSI chapbooks.

Simon Armitage lives in West Yorkshire and is

Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. He
has published over a dozen collections of poetry
including Paper Aeroplane Selected Poems 1989 to
2014 and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight. His three best-selling non-fiction
titles are All Points North, Walking Home and Walking
Away. Armitage writes extensively for radio and
television, and his most recent play was The Last
Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeares Globe in
London. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of
photo credit: Paul Wolfgang Webster
Poetry at Oxford University.

Events: Writing workshop (p.13); Film & discussion (p.13); Reading (p.14); Book launch
(p.15); Keynote (p.16); Reading (p.18)

Tusiata Avia is a Samoan-New Zealand poet,

performer and writer. She has published three books
of poetry: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Bloodclot, Fale
Aitu/Spirit House and two childrens books, Mele and
the Massage and The Song. Her one-woman theatre
show (also called Wild Dogs Under My Skirt) toured
internationally from 2002 to 2008 and shows again in
2016 as a play for six actors. Tusiata has held a
number of writers residencies and awards,
including a Fulbright Pacific Artist Fellowship at the
University of Hawaii and the Janet Frame Literary
Trust Award. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand
with her daughter, Sepela, and teaches Creative
Writing and Performing Arts at Manukau Institute of
Technology.
photo credit: Hayley Theyer
Events: Writing Workshop (p.9); Performance at Slam
(p.10); Performance Workshop (p.16); Book launch
(p.16); Performance (p.18)
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Summary of Events
In the week ahead of our festival, there are three other events that we wish to highlight.

Wednesday, 31 August: Book Launch Burnt Umber by Paul Hetherington

6pm, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place West, Parkes, ACT 2600

We are delighted to feature the launch of this major new collection of poetry by the
Head of IPSI, released by UWAPublishing.

Wednesday, 31 August: Poetry Slam Heat

7.309.30pm, The Well, University of Canberra, 20 Telita Street, Bruce, ACT 2617

For the first time, there will be a University of Canberra heat of the ACT Poetry Slam
Finals. Five winning poets will go through to the National Final on 9 September (see
p.10). UC students are especially encouraged to take part, but the event is open to all.

Sunday, 4 September: Poetry in Motion, The Poets Train

Departs at 12.08pm from Central Station, Sydney; arrives in Canberra at 4.25pm.

The Poets Train from Canberra to Sydney enables poets to experience both inspiration
and insight for a period of four hours in transit. The project is supported by Australian
Poetry and NSW Trainlink (formerly Countrylink), and has run every two years since
2010. Poems written on the journey can be submitted to a competition with prizes of
free NSW train travel and publication in an anthology. Those travelling/writing are
invited to participate in a festival workshop (see p.7). On the evening before, enjoy
dinner in Sydney (6pm) and bring a poem to read (7.30pm) at the Friend in Hand
Hotel, 28 Cowper Street, Glebe, Sydney. An outward journey (Canberra to Sydney) is
available on Friday, 2 September, departing at 11.55am.

Contact: Fiona McIlroy, [email protected] or 0427 088149

Festival Schedule

Tuesday, 6 September
11am: Caf Poetry Reading #1
6pm: Material Poetics Reading (ANCAGallery)

Wednesday, 7 September
10am: The Poets Train Workshop Fiona McIlroy
1.30pm: Lecture: The Musicality of Everyday Speech Paul Magee
4.30pm: Mother Tongue Readings of Multilingual Poetry and Translations
6pm: Book launches Recent Work Press
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Thursday, 8 September
10am: Writing Workshop Tusiata Avia
2pm: Translation Workshop Subhash Jaireth
7pm: Poetry Reading Cassandra Atherton, Dominique Hecq, Jeri Kroll,
Paul Magee (Manning Clark House)

Friday, 9 September
10am: Poetry and Landscape Workshop Pamela Beasant
4pm: Prose Poetry on the Move readings, discussion and book launches
7.30pm: Canberra National Slam Final (Gorman Arts Centre)

Saturday, 10 September
10am: Haiku Walk Owen Bullock (Belconnen Arts Centre)
12.30pm: Poetry through the Page Workshop Caren Florance
(Belconnen Arts Centre)

Sunday, 11 September
11am: Skyspace: Poetry Writing (National Gallery of Australia)
3pm: The Poetic Biography: Jessica Wilkinson, Benjamin Laird, Geoff Page,
Subhash Jaireth, David Pereira (National Portrait Gallery)

Monday, 12 September
10am: Writing Workshop Simon Armitage
4pm: Everything Also Do Pooja Nansi, Alvin Pang, Tania De Rozario
6pm: Black Roses film and discussion Simon Armitage

Tuesday, 13 September
11am: Caf Poetry Reading #2
4pm: The Risks of Revision Alan Gould, John Foulcher
6pm: Poetry Reading Simon Armitage

Wednesday, 14 September
10am: Performance Poetry Workshop Tusiata Avia
4.30pm: Poetry publishers in discussion and IPSI chapbook launches
7.30pm: Poetry at the House Geoff Goodfellow, Nigel Roberts

Thursday, 15 September
9.30am: Poetry Symposium: Poetry and Place

Friday, 16 September
11am: Caf Poetry Reading #3
2pm: A Celebration of Poetry (including prize announcements)

Most events are free but numbers are limited.Please refer to the Eventbrite booking
page for full details. http://poetryonthemove2016.eventbrite.com.au
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Tuesday, 6 September
Caf Poetry Reading #1, Building 1, Foundation Lounge (next to Mini
Mizzuna caf), 11am

This first of our two caf readings will feature the work of five poets, all from New
Zealand: Tusiata Avia, James Baxter, Allen Curnow, Hone Tuwhare and Fleur Adcock.
Their work will be read by members of the broader UC community. Poems have been
chosen for effects of surprise, wonder and beauty, and for their music.

Material Poetics Reading, ANCA Gallery, Dickson, 6pm

Sarah Rice, Jen Webb, Jordan Williams, Melinda Smith (MC)

Material Poetics was an emerging theme of the Poetry on the Move Festival 2015. This
year, Jen Webb and Caren Florance have curated a Material Poetics exhibition at ANCA
Gallery, and the poets involved will give a reading, in situ, that draws on and
highlights the exhibited work.

The conceptual premise of the exhibition is built on a statement by philosopher Gilles

Deleuze, who wrote that a work of art is a bloc of sensationsthat is, it is a congeries
of material perceptswhich causes emotional or sensate responses. We are interested
in the intersections between the ways visual art and poetry afford such responses.
Caren Florance and Jen Webb, Curators

Sarah Rice Jen Webb Jordan Williams Melinda Smith

The exhibition runs from 24 August to 11 September.

Artists: Jordan Williams, Jen Webb, Sarah Rice, Nicci Haynes, Katie Hayne, Ursula
Frederick, Caren Florance.

Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Inc., 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson, ACT 2602

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Wednesday, 7 September
Workshop: Poetry in Motion, The Poets Train, Building 1, C75, 10am12pm
Fiona McIlroy

This workshop, for poets who traveled on the Poets Train to

Canberra (4 September), will explore elements of time and space,
passing landscape, stillness and movement, that are unique to the
experience of writing poetry on a train journey. In addition, poems
will be offered for workshopping in relation to these key elements
and their effect on language. Participating poets will also be able to
read their poems at the culmination of the festival. Fiona MacIlroy

Lecture: The Musicality of Everyday Speech, Building 2, B7, 1.302.30pm

Paul Magee

Why are limericks and nursery rhymes so rhythmically compelling that we start to
sing-song as we say them, why is pentameter so relatively relaxed, and how do these
things relate to the (inherently rhythmic) way we speak every day? In this public
lecture, Paul Magee lays out Derek Attridges ground-breaking work on beat prosody.

Mother Tongue: Multilingual Poetry, and Translation

Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 4.306pm

If poetry is the universal language (William Hazlitt) then Mother Tongue is a

celebration of humanity as it is portrayed through some of the rich and various
cultures represented in our community. It is an opportunity for participants to immerse
themselves in the sounds and nuances of poetry in a variety of languages: Arabic,
Vietnamese, German, Swahili, Spanish, Indonesian, Korean, Greek, Latin, Malay,
Serbian, Russian. The session will include readings of classical poetry, original
compositions and original translations into English.

4:305.00 University of Canberra students and staff will read their favourite poems in
their mother tongues

5:005:30 Local Canberra poets will perform original poems in different languages

5:306:00 The Poetry Translation Workshop will present original translations and
re-renderings of poems in English
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Wednesday, 7 September (continued)
Recent Work Press Book Launches, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 6pm

Recent Work Press is proud to present the launch of two new books of poetry at this
years Poetry on the Move Festival:

5 6 7 8 by Monica Carroll, Jen Crawford, Owen Bullock and Shane Strange

Hitting it means you're on the cruise. Everything's open. Naked in a good way, like all
the windows are down and your hair is loved-up by a warm-fuelled wind.

The sweetest gear Hex Virtues... Octopus This is poetry by the numbers.

Count it in: 5 6 7 8

Four poets, four numbers, ten poems each. Somehow, it all adds up.

Monica Carroll Jen Crawford Owen Bullock Shane Strange

Transit by Niloofar Fanaiyan

This first book of poetry by Niloofar Fanaiyan is about transit as

both a physical and conceptual suspension of time and space. It
touches on the intersections of people, place, culture and history
experienced by travellers: the feeling of being stuck on the
periphery while life continues elsewhere; and the possibilities
Niloofar Fanaiyan
inherent in every journey.

Recent Work Press is a small press imprint based in the ACT, Australia. It publishes
poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, and other short-form textual experiments. It aims
to make new writing available in attractive, paperback editions priced to make good
work accessible.

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Thursday, 8 September
Poetry Workshop with Tusiata Avia, Building 1, C75, 10am12pm

In the first of two workshops, poet in residence Tusiata Avia will lead participants in
writing new work. Performance of the work will be explored in the second workshop
on the following Wednesday, 14 September (see p.15).

Poetry Translation Workshop with Subhash Jaireth, Building 1, C75, 24pm

In the introduction to his translation of Dantes Divine Comedy, Clive

James notes that the aim of translation, often impossible to achieve, is
to capture the force of both meaning and sound. The task becomes
more critical for poems in which the meaning is in the sound itself. In
last years festival workshop, poets produced six different translations
of Akhmatovas Three Autumns, aiming to achieve consonance

Subhash Jaireth
between the mood, meaning and sound of the Russian poem. In this
years workshop poets will work on The Garden by Marina
Tsvetaeva (18921941). Each poet will have access to three documents: the original
poem in Russian; a line-by-line English paraphrase; and an audio recording of the
Russian poem. In his brief introduction Subhash Jaireth will provide biographical,
historical and cultural contexts within which the Russian poem was written.

Poetry Reading, Manning Clark House, 7.30pm

Cassandra Atherton, Dominique Hecq, Jeri Kroll, Paul Magee

Four distinguished poets from four different universities read from their work at this
historic Canberra venue. Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circuit, Forrest, ACT
2603. For biographies, see pages 1923.

Cassandra Atherton Dominique Hecq Jeri Kroll Paul Magee

(credit: Michael Reynolds)

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Friday, 9 September
Poetry and Landscape Workshop with Pamela Beasant,
Building 1, C75, 10am12pm

Orkney poet Pamela Beasant explores how landscape can shape

and inform poetry; and how a sense of place, and belonging or not
belonging, can help to develop a poet's unique voice and sense of
self. Pamela Beasant

Prose Poetry on the Move, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 46pm

The Prose Poetry Project, initiated at the University of Canberra in 2014, continues to
extend its reach and influence on the development and understanding of the form.
As a project it is also about collaboration and creative play, both of which will be
evident in the readings, presentations and discussion within this festival event.

Participants: Cassandra Atherton, Owen Bullock, Monica Carroll, Jen Crawford, Lucy
Dougan, Niloofar Fanaiyan, Paul Hetherington, Paul Munden, Maggie Shapley, Shane
Strange, Jen Webb, Jordan Williams. Other members of the project: (in the UK) Anne
Caldwell, Oliver Comins, Carrie Etter, Nigel McLoughlin, Andrew Melrose; (in
Australia) Ross Gibson, Stephanie Green, Charlotte Guest, Penelope Layland.

The presentations and discussions will be followed by the launch of prose poetry
publications:

Pulse:Prose Poems, edited by Shane Strange and Monica Carroll.

The Taoist Elements a 5 chapbook set: Water by Cassandra Atherton, Earth by Paul
Hetherington, Fire by Paul Munden, Metal by Jen Webb and Wood by Jordan Williams.

The BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Canberra National Poetry Slam, Gorman

Arts Centre, 7.3010.30pm, featuring Tusiata Avia, Andrew Galan (MC)

Winners from the earlier heats including the University of Canberra event on 31
August come together for this state final. Five randomly selected judges decide the
Capital Champions who will go forward to the nationals in Sydney. Poetry on the
Move poet in residence, Tusiata Avia, will give a guest performance.

Gorman Main Hall, Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon, ACT 2612
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Saturday, 10 September
Haiku Walk, Belconnen Arts Centre and Lake Ginninderra, 10am12pm
Owen Bullock

It is traditional for haiku poets to take a ginko walk to collect material for haiku. After
discussing some contemporary haiku and techniques, we will do just that, beside Lake
Ginninderra. On our return we will share our efforts and look at approaches to editing.

Lunch (1212.30pm) will be provided for participants after the event.

Poetry through the Page, Belconnen Arts Centre, 12.304.30pm

Caren Florance

A writing workshop with a difference: were going to think with

our eyes and hands and see what happens to our words. Break
through the fear of the blank page by physically breaking that
page down and rebuilding it. Well cut, tear, slit, fold, and play our
way through page-space, and then add words (new, old, found)
and discover what materiality may do to them. You will leave
with something concrete, but dont expect a polished outcome
Caren Florance this is play, not work.

Participants can bring their own poetry, or someone elses, or trust the text to arrive by
itself through the session. There will be old books to cut up, or you can bring your own
text fodder (letters/magazines/lyrics/books/newspapers, etc). Lunch will be
provided at 1212.30pm.

Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT 2617

Participants at Poetry on the Move, Belconnen Arts Centre, 2015

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Sunday, 11 September
Skyspace: Poetry Writing at the National Gallery of Australia, 11am

James Turrells installation Within without, at the NGA, enables visitors to experience
art formed of their own observations. Today (weather permitting) you are invited to
translate the experience into writing, alongside fellow poets (led by Paul Munden).

National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT 2600

Poetry and Biography, National Portrait Gallery, 3pm

Jessica Wilkinson, Benjamin Laird, Geoff Page, Paul Munden (Chair)
with book launch and performance by Subhash Jaireth and David Pereira

What might a poetic biography achieve for the historical subject that a prose
biography cannot? This panel brings together four poets to discuss their respective
forays into this field. The four panellists will discuss both their own works and those
by other poets, offering new insights into what these works may offer in relation to:
feminist perspectives; the programmable and virtually-generated environment; and
speculative documentation and poetic play. The panel aims to interrogate the poetic
medium as a valuable means through which to access new performative, historical and
philosophical dimensions in writing (about) real world subjects.

Jessica Wilkinson Benjamin Laird Geoff Page Subhash Jaireth

The discussions will be followed by the launch of Incantations (Recent Work Press), a
new book by Subhash Jaireth, who will read from it, illustrated by the portraits at the
NPG that inspired it, and accompanied by David Pereira (cello). In Incantations,
Subhash Jaireth responds through a series of short prose pieces to portraits of famous
and everyday Australians in an attempt to rethink the role of place, identity and the
self. It is an ekphrastic exercise, in that it reinterprets an artwork in writing, but it is
also a lyrical exploration of what art can mean: its power to move, to know, and to feel.

National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600

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Monday, 12 September
Writing Workshop: Chancing Your Arm, Building 1, C75, 10am12pm
Simon Armitage

In this workshop, poet in residence Simon Armitage will lead participants in taking
risks and learning new tricks in the making of poems.

Everything Also Do: The Poem in Multidisciplinary Practice

Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 46pm
Pooja Nansi, Alvin Pang, Tania De Rozario

What roles does poetry play in interdisciplinary practice? How can performance,
translation or visual art, elevate or repurpose the written word? In what ways can
multidisciplinary collaboration create new processes? What synchronicities arise when
working with multiple mediums?

In this conversation and

reading, Singaporean poets
Alvin Pang, Pooja Nansi
and Tania De Rozario
discuss their interfaces
with other creative forms
Pooja Nansi Alvin Pang Tania De Rozario
and practices.

Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette),

6pm, with Simon Armitage

A screening and discussion of Simon Armitages film-poem, based on the hate-crime

murder of a young woman in Lancashire in 2007.

Sophie Lancaster was 20 years old and was working out

what to do with her life. She was killed because she dressed
differently.

Simon Armitage will take part in a discussion of the work,

hailed by Gerard ODonovan in The Telegraph as
a searingly beautiful elegy to a real life horribly cut short. Photo: BBC

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Tuesday, 13 September
Caf Poetry Reading #2, Building 1, Foundation Lounge (next to Mini
Mizzuna caf), 11am

This second caf reading features the work of five poets, three of them Irish, two North
American and all idiosyncratic. Work by John Berryman, Nuala ni Dhomnaill, Emily
Dickinson, Paul Durcan and James Joyce will be read by UC staff and friends.

The Risks of Revision, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 4pm

Alan Gould, John Foulcher, Paul Hetherington (Chair)

When preparing previously published work for a new collection,

poets are faced with a basic yet complicated choice: to leave things
as they are or give them a makeover small or large. When should
an author stop revising? When is the quality of earliness fresh and
authentic, and when is it poetically deficient? As writers such as Alan Gould

Wordsworth and Auden have famously demonstrated, there is

often a temptation to improve, but the risks of attempting this
once poems have established their place in the world sometimes
with a loyal readership are considerable. Are poets best advised
to honour the integrity of their earlier work, or are there always
gains to be made with experience? Paul Hetherington

Alan Gould and John Foulcher, two poets with contrasting views
on the matter, reflect on the merits of revising their work for
John Foulcher
further publication.

Poetry Reading: Simon Armitage, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 6pm

Simon Armitage is one of the most acclaimed poets of his

generation, with over a dozen collections from Faber to his name.
A BAFTA Award winner and recipient of an Ivor Novello Award
for song-writing, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature in 2004 and awarded the CBE for services to poetry in
2010. His reading this evening is a centrepiece of our festival, and
photo credit:
will be followed by a reception.
Paul Wolfgang Webster

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Wednesday, 14 September
Performance Poetry Workshop, Building 1, C75, 10am12pm
Tusiata Avia

In the second of her workshops, Tusiata Avia prepares poets for performing their work
at the Celebration of Poetry event on Friday, 16 September (see p.18).

Poetry Publishing, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette), 4.306.30pm

Ivor Indyk, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Kent MacCarter, David Musgrave, Terri-ann
White, Jessica Wilkinson

Join us for this exceptional opportunity to

hear from leading Australian poetry editors
and publishers, representing: Giramondo,
John Leonard Press, Australian Poetry,
Cordite, Puncher & Wattmann, UWA Ivor Indyk Jacinta Le Plastrier Kent MacCarter

Publishing, Vagabond Press, and Rabbit.

The discussion will be followed by the launch

of IPSIs latest chapbooks (at approximately
5.30pm):
David Musgrave Terri-ann White Jessica Wilkinson
New Cemetery by Simon Armitage;
The New Adventures of Nafanua, the Samoan Goddess of War by Tusiata Avia;
Counsel for the Defence by Judy Johnson; Monsters Ink by Samuel Wagan Watson.

Poetry in the House (ANU), 8pm Geoff Goodfellow, Nigel Roberts

(Dinner available in the Fellows Bar and Caf from 6pm)

We are pleased to highlight the September

reading in the monthly series of events at
University House, of which IPSIis a sponsor.
The featured poets are Geoff Goodfellow
and Nigel Roberts.

Geoff Goodfellow Nigel Roberts

University House, 1 Balmain Crescent,
Acton, ACT 2601 (credit: Simon Cecere) (credit: John Tranter)

Tickets: [email protected]
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Thursday, 15 September
Poetry Symposium: Poetry and Place, Building 24, A2, Ann Harding Centre

09.30 Coffee

10.00 Welcome

10.15 Keynote: Simon Armitage Putting Poetry in its Place

11.00 Morning Tea

11.30 Poetry Travelling: Poetry Reading by Kirpal Singh

For Kirpal Singh, one of the great delights of being a poet is to be

invited to readings around the globe. In this session he will share his
poems about places, starting and ending with Australia, but covering
some others along the way. Kirpal Singh

11.45 Cold Places, Cold Words a conversation

This session explores the landscape and language of extremity and

survival in the north and south polar regions and how words can take
you there with Antarctic scientist and writer Bernadette Hince, and
Orkney poet and playwright Pamela Beasant. Bernadette Hince

12.15 Poetry in Motion: Readings from the Poets Train 2016

Participants of the earlier journey and workshop read from their resulting work.

12.30 Lunch, with screening of poetry-films curated by Louise Curham

Poetry on film, film poetry, poetry-film... these works explore collaborations between
poets and film artists. To paraphrase poetry-film theorist William Wees, these are
works in which image and text are at once independent and interdependent.

13.15 Un-belonging: Poetry from Singapore

Pooja Nansi, Alvin Pang, Tania De Rozario

How do issues of identity shape an individuals notion of home? What is the place of
the poem in a country governed by pragmatism? How does the political relate to the
personal, and therefore, the poem? What is the role of lived experience in the craft of
verse? Three Singaporean poets address ideas of poetry, place and un-belonging.

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14.15 Poetry Readings:
Lucy Dougan, David Musgrave, Pamela Beasant, Kent MacCarter

14.45 Afternoon Tea

15.15 Papers and presentations

Lucy Dougan: Place in the Poetry and Journals of Fay Zwicky

Fay Zwicky has lived between Melbourne, Perth, America and

Indonesia. This paper reflects on negotiations and renegotiations with
place in her poetry and journals over several decades. It has a
particular interest in the ways in which her connections to these
Lucy Dougan
places and the connections she makes between them are inflected
in her practice and have sustained that practice.

Jack Ross: What should a magazine called Poetry NZ look like?

Since 2014, Jack Ross has been the Managing Editor of Poetry NZ,
New Zealands oldest poetry journal founded in 1951 by Louis
Johnson, and produced by diverse editors and publishers since then.
But what should the magazine look like? Bicultural? Multicultural?
Jack Ross Local? International? Or a mixture of all of these?

Jeanine Leane: Country Speaks

Jeanine Leane was born on Country and grew up by the

Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai. Jeanine will speak about how
the Wiradjuri landscape with its stories of people and place inspires
and speaks through her poetry.
Jeanine Leane

16.15 States of Poetry: Australian Book Review ACT Anthology

Reading

Jen Webb introduces readings by contributors to the ACT anthology: Melinda Smith,
John Foulcher, Merlinda Bobis, Geoff Page, Isi Unikowski. States of Poetry is a project
intended to highlight the quality and diversity of contemporary Australian poetry.

17.00 Drinks

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Friday, 16 September
Caf Poetry Reading #3, Building 1, Foundation Lounge (next to Mini
Mizzuna caf), 11am

This third and final caf reading features the work of eight poets who took part in the
Poetry Masterclass run by Jen Webb earlier in the year, sponsored by Australian Poetry:
Rosie Garland, Robyn Lance, Penny OHara, Moya Pacey, Kathy Preston, Sandra
Renew, Carmel Summers, and Isi Unikowski.

A Celebration of Poetry, Building 1, A21 (Theatrette)

Our concluding festival event features readings, performances, and the announcement
of the University of Canberra Poetry Prizes.

14.00 Welcome and Introduction

Paul Munden makes a brief reflection on 11 days of Poetry on the Move.

14.15 Performance by Nasim Patel, Young Poet Award winner 2015

Encrypted Limbs explores the effect of speech on the mental and physical states. It
evolved from a series of improvisational tasks involving spoken word and movement
into an examination into the relationship between the two.

14.30 Poetry in Performance

Tusiata Avia introduces performances by those who participated in her earlier

workshop, and performs work from her own one-woman poetry show, Wild Dogs
Under My Skirt.

15.30 Afternoon Tea

16.00 Poetry Readings:

Merlinda Bobis, Michelle Cahill, Jack Ross, Simon Armitage

Ahead of the announcement of Vice-Chancellors International Poetry Prize, head

judge Simon Armitage is joined by the three longlist judges reading from their own
work.

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17.00 University of Canberra Poetry Prizes

Confirmation of The Young Poets Awards, with readings by the winners

These awards are open to all Year 11 and Year 12 students in the ACT and NSW. The
awards seek to encourage young poets and to reward imaginative, well-crafted poems
with a distinctive voice. The awards will have been presented at the University Open
Day on Saturday, 27 August, by Professor Lyndon Anderson, Dean, Faculty of Arts and
Design. At todays celebration, the winning poets will be invited to read their work.

Health Poetry Prize announcement and readings

This new prize is sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty of Health, supported by IPSI.
Open to anyone over the age of 18 living in Australia, the prize aims to inspire others
through poetry to consider the journey to live life well. Poets were invited to focus on
mental or physical health, and to investigate what living life well means, considering
the barriers to living a well life, promoting a life lived well, or describing the
experience of, or transition to, living life well.

Vice-Chancellors International Poetry Prize announcement and readings

This major prize, established in 2014, celebrates the enduring

significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world, and its
ongoing and often seminal importance to world literatures. It
marks the University of Canberras commitment to creativity and
imagination in all that it does, and builds on the work of the
International Poetry Studies Institute in identifying poetry as a
highly resilient and sophisticated human activity. It also builds on
the activities of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research,
which conducts wide-ranging research into human creativity and
Professor H. Deep Saini
Vice-Chancellor
culture.
University of Canberra

Professor H. Deep Saini, the Universitys newly appointed

Vice-Chancellor, and himself a poet, will make the announcement, and winning poets
will be invited to read.

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The Poets & Other Contributors
Simon Armitage (poet in residence, see p.3)

Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning writer, academic and critic. She is a Harvard

Visiting Scholar in English in 2016. Her recent books of prose poetry include, Exhumed
(Grand Parade Poets, 2015) and Trace, with illustrations by Phil Day (Finlay Lloyd,
2015). She is the recipient of a VicArts grant to collaborate on a prose poetry graphic
novel and is the poetry editor of Westerly.

Tusiata Avia (poet in residence, see p.3)

Pamela Beasant, from Glasgow, studied English at Oxford University, and now lives in
Stromness, Orkney. Her poetry collections are Running with a Snow Leopard and Orkney:
a celebration of light and landscape. Pamela was the first George Mackay Brown Fellow,
and is part of the Scottish Book Trusts Live Literature scheme. Pamela is currently
Director of the annual Orkney Writers Course for the St Magnus International Festival.

Merlinda Bobis, a Filipino-Australian, is the author of three novels, five poetry books,
seven dramatic works (stage and radio), a collection of short stories and a monograph
on writing and researching fiction. Her works have received various awards, among
them the Prix Italia, the Philippine National Book Award, the Philippine Balagtas
Award, the Australian Writers Guild Award, and the Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize.

Owen Bullock has published three collections of haiku; his fourth will appear later this
year. He is a former editor of Kokako, New Zealands only specialist haiku journal, and
was one of the editors who produced Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol IV. Owen
won the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015 and is a PhD Candidate in
Creative Writing at the University of Canberra.

Michelle Cahill is the author of The Accidental Cage, Vishvarpa and Night Birds. She co-
edited Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, and edits Mascara Literary Review. Michelle
has written essays on poetics, race and cultural diversity for Southerly, Westerly, and the
Sydney Review of Books. She was a fellow at Kingston University, London, and in 2016 is
a Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Monica Carroll is a student and researcher at the University of Canberra. She

investigates space and writing, poetry and empathy through phenomenology. Her
widely published prose and poetry have been awarded nationally and internationally.

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Jen Crawfords recent poetry publications are Koel (Cordite Books) and the chapbook
lichen loves stone (Tinfish Press). She teaches poetry and creative writing within the
Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra, and has also
taught in Singapore and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She grew up in Aotearoa/New
Zealand and the Philippines and holds a PhD from the University of Wollongong.

Louise Curham is an experimental filmmaker and archivist. Currently on leave from

the National Archives of Australia in Canberra, she is completing her PhD in the
Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. Her research explores new
ways to care for ephemeral art. Her film works are resolutely analogue and usually
performed live in collaboration with other artists. Louises films are hand processed
and many are made without a camera, working directly into the film surface.

Lucy Dougans books include Memory Shell (5 Islands Press), White Clay (Giramondo),
Meanderthals (Web del Sol) and The Guardians (Giramondo), and her prizes include the
Mary Gilmore Award, and the Alec Bolton Award. A past poetry editor of HEAT
magazine and the current one for Axon: Creative Explorations, she works for Westerly at
UWA and also teaches creative writing at Curtin.

Niloofar Fanaiyan is currently a Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Research Fellow
at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, where she
recently obtained her PhD. She writes poetry and short fiction, and her first book of
poetry, Transit, is published this year by Recent Work Press.

Caren Florance often works under the imprint Ampersand Duck. She is an
artist/designer who focuses on the book and the printed word and uses traditional and
contemporary processes to play with material poetics and poets. Caren is currently a
PhD student in the Arts and Design Faculty of the University of Canberra and a
member of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research.

John Foulcher has published ten books of poetry, the most recent being The Sunset
Assumption (PSP, 2012) and 101 Poems (PSP, 2015), the latter being a selection from his
previous volumes. In 2010 he was the Australia Councils resident at the Keesing
Studio in Paris. He lives in Canberra.

Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned

poetry event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Showcased at a number of major festivals, and
Chicagos Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in publications such as the Best
Australian Poems, Jet Fuel Review and Cordite. His books include That Place of Infested
Roads (Life During Wartime) (KF&S Press, 2013) and For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who
Staid) (Bareknuckle Books, 2016).

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Geoff Goodfellow, from Adelaide, trades as Poet for Hire. He has published ten
books over his 32 year career, deriving his entire income from the proceeds of poetry.
Poems for a Dead Father was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year in 2002. Geoffs
survival from cancer was recorded in Waltzing with Jack Dancer: a slow dance with cancer
(Wakefield Press, 2012).

Alan Goulds fourteenth collection of poems, Charlie Twirl, will be published by UWA
in February 2017. His ninth novel, a picaresque entitled The Poets Stairwell, was
published by Black Pepper in 2015, and his second collection of essays, Joinery and
Scrollwork A Writers Workbench, was published by Quadrant Books in 2013.

Dominique Hecq, born in the French-speaking part of Belgium, has spent most of her
life in Australia. Her work crosses disciplines, genres, and languages, resisting
categorisation. She is the author of 15 full-length works ranging from poetry, fiction,
and drama to books about creative writing informed by psychoanalysis. Having
recently reconnected with her mother-tongue, her works in progress include Duel (a bi-
lingual collection) and Envol daube.

Paul Hetherington is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra, Head of IPSI

there, and a founding editor of Axon: Creative Explorations. He has published ten
collections of poetry, most recently Burnt Umber (UWAP, 2016), and won the 2014
Western Australian Premiers Book Award (Poetry). Paul recently completed an
Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.

Bernadette Hince writes on polar language, history and food. She has published
annotated editions of the 1953 diaries of adventurer John Bechervaise (Unique and
Unspoilt, National Library of Australia, 2011) and the 1912 diaries of Australasian
Antarctic Expedition geologist Frank Stillwell (Still no Mawson, Australian Academy of
Science, 2013). Her book The Antarctic Dictionary was published in 2000. She is now
adding to it the words of the Arctic, making a comprehensive polar dictionary.

Ivor Indyk is the publisher of the award-winning literary imprint Giramondo, and
Whitlam Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney
University. He was the founding editor of the literary magazine HEAT, and co-founder
of the Sydney Review of Books. Poets published by Giramondo include Judith Beveridge,
Jennifer Maiden, Alan Wearne, Gig Ryan, Adam Aitken, Lucy Dougan, Ali Cobby
Eckermann, Michael Farrell, Lisa Gorton, Bonny Cassidy, Luke Beesley, Aden Rolfe and
Kate Middleton.

Subhash Jaireth has published work in Hindi, Russian and English, including three
collections of poetry: Yashodhara: Six Seasons Without You (2003), Unfinished Poems for
Your Violin (1996), and Golee Lagne Se Pahle (1994, in Hindi). His book, To Silence: Three
Autobiographies, was published in 2011, with two plays adapted from it in 2012. His

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collection of short stories, Moments, was published in 2015.

Judy Johnsons sixth full-length collection Dark Convicts will appear from UWA
publishing early in 2017. Her prizes include the Victorian Premiers Award, the Wesley
Michel Wright Prize (twice) and shortlisting in the WA Premiers Award. Her verse
novel Jack has been on the syllabus for both the University of Sydney and the
University of Melbourne. She is co-editor of a twenty-five-year retrospective of
Australian Verse: Contemporary Australian Poetry.

Jeri Kroll is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flinders University in

Adelaide. She has published poetry, picture books, young adult novels and adult
fiction. Recent books are Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (Wakefield,
2013) and Vanishing Point (Puncher & Wattmann), a verse novel shortlisted for the 2015
Queensland Literary Awards.

Benjamin Laird is a poet and computer programmer. He writes print and electronic
poems which have appeared in Peril, Unusual Work, Cordite Poetry Review, and Rabbit.
His most recent publication is The Durham Poems (SOd Press, 2016), a chapbook of
biographical electronic poems. He is a PhD candidate at RMIT University researching
biographical poetry in print and programmable media, and is also the website
producer for Overland and Cordite Poetry Review.

Robyn Lances poetry can be found stencilled onto large metal plates in regional New
South Wales, has enlivened Canberras buses and was on the wall in the Behind
every war there are good women exhibition. She was awarded the 2009 Veolia
Creative Arts Scholarship and the 2014 ACT Writers Michael Thwaites Poetry Prize,
was joint winner of the 2010 artsACTs David Campbell Poetry Prize, and shortlisted
for the 2013 JC Drake Brockman Poetry Prize.

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer. In 2010 she completed a doctoral thesis that
analysed three iconic settler representations of Aboriginal Australians. Jeanines first
volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 (2010) won the Scanlon
Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Her manuscript, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon
Award at the 2010 Queensland Premiers Literary Awards. Jeanine teaches creative
writing at the University of Melbourne and is currently working on her second novel.

Jacinta Le Plastrier is a writer, publisher and poet. She is also the Chief Executive
Officer at Australian Poetry, the sole national representative body for poetry in the
country, based at The Wheeler Centre for Books and Ideas in Melbourne.

Kent MacCarter is a writer and editor in Castlemaine. Hes the author of three poetry
collections: In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Ribosome Spreadsheet
(Picaro Press, 2011) and Sputniks Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014), with California Sweet

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forthcoming in 2017. He is also editor of Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home (Affirm
Press, 2013), a non-fiction collection of diasporic memoir, and Creative Director of
Cordite Publishing Inc.

Fiona McIlroy studied Language and Literature at University of Melbourne and has
been a teacher, mediator and life coach. Poetry continues to flow through her veins,
and she has hosted a poetry group, Taste of Poetry, in Cherryripe Caf in Watson since
2009. Fiona has published two poetry collections (Ginninderra Press) and is included in
several anthologies, most recently Poetry & Place (2016), and Poetic Christi (2016).

Paul Magee is a poet, based at the University of Canberra. He is author of Stone

Postcard (2014), which was named in Australian Book Review as one of the books of the
year; Cube Root of Book (2006), which was shortlisted for the Innovation Award at the
2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for the Arts; and the prose monograph From Here to
Tierra del Fuego (2000). Paul is currently working on a fourth book, Suddenness: On
Rapid Knowledge.

Paul Munden is Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Poetry and Creative Practice) at the
University of Canberra, and Program Manager for IPSI. The UK publisher
Smith|Doorstop has published his book Asterisk, a sequence relating to Shandy Hall,
the former home of Laurence Sterne, in North Yorkshire, with photographs by Marion
Frith (2011), and Analogue/Digital, New & Selected Poems (2015).

David Musgrave lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. In 2005

he founded the literary publishing house Puncher & Wattmann, at which he continues
to be publisher. He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is
Anatomy of Voice (Gloria SMH, 2016).

Pooja Nansi is an educator and poet who believes in the power that speech and
performance can lend to the written word. She has published two collections of poetry:
Stiletto Scars, published in 2007 at the Singapore Writers Festival, and Love is an Empty
Barstool (Math Paper Press, 2014). She has participated in projects such as Speechless,
where she worked with poets from around the world, exploring issues surrounding
freedom of speech. She curates a monthly spoken word and poetry event called
Speakeasy, and runs the Singapore chapter of Burn After Reading. She is an NTU-NAC
Writer in Residence for 20152016.

Geoff Page is based in Canberra and has published 22 collections of poetry as well as
two novels and five verse novels. His most recent books include Aficionado: A Jazz
Memoir (Picaro Press, 2014), Gods and Uncles (Pitt Street Poetry, 2015), and PLEVNA: A
Verse Biography (UWA Publishing, 2016). He also edited The Best Australian Poems 2014
and The Best Australian Poems 2015 (Black Inc).

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Penny O'Hara is a Canberra writer whose work has appeared in journals and
anthologies including Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal and Verity La. She has twice
won the Michael Thwaites Poetry Award and has also been awarded the Meanjin
Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize.

Moya Pacey lives in Canberra and her first collection, The Wardrobe, was runner-up for
the ACT Writers Centre Poetry Award and is now available as an ebook. In 2015 she
was shortlisted for the ACU Prize and was published in The Best Australian Poems (ed.
Geoff Page). This year shes had poems published in Quadrant and The Canberra Times.

Alvin Pang is a poet, writer, editor and translator whose work has been translated into
over 15 languages. He appears regularly in major festivals and publications
worldwide, and was Singapores Young Artist of the Year for Literature in 2005. He is a
Board Member of IPSI, and a Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program. His
recent publications include Nr barbarerna kommer (Rmus Forlag, Sweden, 2015),
selected poems in Swedish translation.

Nasim Patel has been creating dance works for four years. He has trained in
contemporary, ballet and hip hop, and is now studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Dance at the VCA. Nasim has always been interested in poetry and rap, although this
is his first time mingling these art forms.

David Pereira was Senior Lecturer in Cello at the ANU School of Music from 1990 to
2008, and is now a Distinguished Artist in Residence there. As concerto soloist he has
appeared with the major orchestras in Australia and New Zealand. He has collaborated
with Subhash Jaireth at a number of events at the National Portrait Gallery.

Sandra Renews collection Who sleeps at night will be published by Ginninderra Press
in December 2016. Her tanka and tanka prose have been published in journals
internationally and her poetry also appears in journals such as Eureka Street, Right Now,
Burley and Scum.

Sarah Rice won the inaugural 2014 Ron PrettyPrize and the 2014 Bruce Dawe Prize,
and co-won the 2013 Winning Ventures International Prize and the 2011 Gwen
Harwood Prize. Her limited-edition art-book of poetry, Those Who Travel (prints by
Patsy Payne, Ampersand Duck, 2010), is held in the NGA and other institutions.
Publications include the Global Poetry Anthology, The House is Not Quiet and the World is
Not Calm: Poetry from Canberra, Island, Southerly, ABR, Contrappasso, and Aesthetica.

Nigel Roberts was born in New Zealand. He is a poet and editor who has also taught
high school art and contributed to several anthologies of poetry. His New & Selected
Poems is forthcoming from Grand Parade Poets this year.

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Jack Ross works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey Universitys
Auckland Campus. His latest novel, The Annotated Tree Worship, is due out in late 2016
from Pania Press. His other publications include five full-length poetry collections,
three novels, and three volumes of short fiction. He has also edited a number of books
and literary magazines. Details of these and other publications are available on his
blog, The Imaginary Museum.

Tania De Rozario is an artist and writer interested in issues of gender and sexuality,
and art as activism. She is the author of Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press, 2013),
shortlisted for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize, and And The Walls Come Crumbling
Down, (Math Paper Press, 2016). Tania also runs EtiquetteSG, a multidisciplinary
platform focused on art, writing, film and music made by women from Singapore.

Maggie Shapley is a Canberra poet and University Archivist at the Australian National
University. She won the 2003 ACT Writers Centre Poetry Award and her poems have
been published in literary journals, anthologies and on Canberra buses as co-winners
of the Poetry in ACTION Prize 2007 to 2009.

Kirpal Singh is regarded as one of the most significant writers in English emerging
from southeast Asia. Kirpals writings have always broken new ground, taking readers
on surprisingly frank journeys of the kind not common in the conservative poetic and
fictional landscapes of his region. He is currently Director of the presidential Wee Kim
Wee Centre at the Singapore Management University, where he also teaches. His
forthcoming book MEMORIALISATIONS: Does TRUTH really Set Us Free is expected in
early 2017.

Melinda Smith won the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for her fourth book of
poems, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call (Pitt St Poetry). Her fifth collection
will be out later this year, also from Pitt St Poetry. She is based in the ACT and is
currently poetry editor of The Canberra Times.

Shane Strange lives in Canberra. His writing has appeared in various print and online
journals, including Overland, Griffith Review, Burley, Verity La, foam:e and Cordite. He is
currently studying at the University of Canberra, where he also tutors and lectures in
Creative Writing.

Carmel Summers' poetry and short stories have been published in Australia, and her
tanka and tanka prose in Australian and international journals. Her poetry awards
include shortlisting in the Blake Poetry Prize in 2012 and the Glen Phillip Poetry Prize.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from Macquarie University.

Isi Unikowski worked in the Australian Public Service for three decades. He is
currently a PhD candidate in the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. His poetry

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has been widely published in Australia and abroad, including shortlisting for the
University of Canberras Vice-Chancellors International Poetry Prize in 2014.

Samuel Wagan Watson hails from an honourable ancestry of Munanjali, Gaelic and
Germanic peoples. He is a full-time writer and raconteur based in Brisbane, and uses
various forms of poetics to complete his work. Collections of Samuels poetry have
received Premiers awards in Queensland and New South Wales.

Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra,

and Director of the CCCR. Her recent work includes Researching Creative Writing
(Frontinus, 2015), Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline
Turner; Manchester UP, 2016), and poetry volumes Watching the World (with Paul
Hetherington; Blemish Books, 2015) and Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (Mark Time,
2015). She is also lead investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery
projects.

Terri-ann White has taught writing in the community and universities. Her books
include a volume of short stories, a novel, and five anthologies. She has an abiding
interest in the way that expression is made across different forms by thinkers and
artists, particularly in dance and visual arts, and takes great pleasure in collaborative
work. She is currently Director, UWA Publishing.

Jessica L. Wilkinson is a poet, critic and editor, who has published two poetic
biographies and is working on a third. marionette: a biography of miss marion davies (2012)
was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in the NSW Premiers Literary
Awards. In 2011, Jessica founded Rabbit, a journal for nonfiction poetry, which will
celebrate its 20th issue in 2016. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT
University, Melbourne.

Jordan Williams is a higher education teacher and researcher at the University of

Canberra. She teaches literature and writing to undergraduate and postgraduate
students as well as to members of the Defence forces who are recovering from mental
or physical injury or illness. She has published poems in both prose and lyric forms
and she has exhibited works combining poetry and digital media.

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IPSI: International Poetry Studies Institute
The International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) is part of the Centre for Creative and
Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra. IPSI conducts
research related to poetry, and publishes and promulgates the outcomes of this
research internationally. The institute also publishes poetry and interviews with poets,
as well as related material, from around the world. Publication of such material takes
place in IPSIs online journal Axon: Creative Explorations (www. axonjournal.com.au)
and through other publishing vehicles, such as the IPSIchapbook series. IPSIs goals
include working collaboratively, where possible for the appreciation and
understanding of poetry, poetic language and the cultural and social significance of
poetry. The institute also organises symposia, seminars, readings and other poetry-
related activities and events.

CCCR: Centre for Creative & Cultural Research

The Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (CCCR) is IPSIs umbrella organisation
and brings together staff, adjuncts, research students and visiting fellows who work on
key challenges within the cultural sector and creative field. A central feature of its
research concerns the effects of digitisation and globalisation on cultural producers,
whether individuals, communities or organisations.

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