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"Poetry on the Move New Series 6 The Texture of Truth" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: podcast.
"Poetry on the Move New Series 5 The Science of Poetry" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020.
"Poetry on the Move New Series 4 What should poetry be?" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.
Poetry on the Move New Series 3 Poetry and Process" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.
"Poetry on the Move New Series 2: Poetry that resists 2" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.
"Poetry on the Move New Series 1 Poetry that Resists 1" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.
Both Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé’s translations from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, and the new translation of Attar’s Persian classic The Conference […]
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Oz Hardwick is a writer, photographer,music journalist, and occasional musician, based in York (UK).. He has published six poetry collections, most recently TheHouse of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017), and hasedited and co-edited several more, including (with Miles […]
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Jill Jones has published 11 full-length books of poetry, including Viva the Real (UQP, 2018), Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015. Her […]
Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin […]
Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet, writer and translator whose latest books are Keeping time with Blue Hyacinths and her highly-regarded translation of Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Wolpé ’s literary work includes four collections of poetry, two plays, three books of translations, and three anthologies. Wolpé ’s writings have been translated into eleven languages […]
In conjunction with the Poetry on the Move festival, selected guests are commissioned to produce a chapbook of work new to Australian audiences. The series is linked to a program of poets in residence at the University of Canberra. Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo based poet, translator and professor of critical theory at Meiji University. […]
In this panel, Lines and Shapes, taken from 2018’s Poetry on the Move festival, four poets discuss the importance of form in and for poetry. How does a consideration of form affect composition? Is form a conservative call to tradition, or a rediscovery that allows poets to explore new ways of working? We’ll hear this […]
Lionel Fogarty is one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers. A Yugambeh man, Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths in custody. He has published […]
Takako Arai published her first collection of poetry in 1997. Her second collection Tamashii Dansu received the Oguma Hideo Prize and several of the works were translated in Soul Dance: Poems by Takako Arai. She is an Associate Professor at Saitama University teaching Japanese language and poetry. Since 2014 she has been involved with a […]
Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney. Her seventh collection of poetry, New and Selected Poems, will be published by Giramondo in 2018. Her previous volumes have won a number of prizes including NSW, Victorian and Queensland Premiers’ Poetry Awards, the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She has also been a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. She was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005–2015. Her work has been studied in schools and universities. This episode hosted by Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand
