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Interview on Metaroar!

Posted on | July 21, 2007 | Comments Off

In a nice piece of syn­chronic­ity, UK poetry web­site Metaroar has posted an arti­cle by Angela Meyer in which Jill Jones (who tes­ti­mo­ni­alised my book), Paul Hardacre (who is pub­lish­ing my book) and myself (who, ehm, wrote my book) are inter­viewed on the sub­ject of our poetic prac­tices and other burn­ing issues includ­ing nation­al­ism, the use­ful­ness of poetry and so on.

From the apt imagery of a moment in time, to dark under­cur­rents, to an over­load of mys­ti­cal beauty, these three Aus­tralian poets are enjoy­able and intense to read. Australia’s phys­i­cal dis­tance from the rest of the West­ern world can make its artists informed reflec­tors. It is a mish-mash of cul­tures, of opin­ions, of denials. It is still young. Mostly, mod­ern Aus­tralian poetry recog­nises its roots but rejects becom­ing entwined with them. It wan­ders, delves, is fright­ened and influ­enced by a global environment.

Coin­ci­dence, or …? It’s a strange kind of arti­cle, where our responses to com­mon ques­tions are inter­spersed with exam­ples of our work (in my case, mostly poems from Abend­land). I guess what inter­ests me the most is the dif­fer­ences and com­mon­al­i­ties in our responses, although Paul does put us to shame with the breadth and detail of his answers. As it turns out, he’s a big softie:

It’s taken me close to ten years to become com­fort­able with the fact that my poems are, for the most part, paeans to love.

I may post some more thoughts on this soon.

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