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Issue 5
Summer 2003
Dialogues with Poets

Issue 5

Dialogues with Poets

Poets in Dialogue, Dialogues in Poets

R.A. Goodrich
Deakin University
Is there something noticeably peculiar about dialogues with poets when transformed into writing, be it in electronic or printed form? The pauses and hesitations, the thrust and parry, the slurrings and overlappings of ordinary speech by and large disappear.

In Dialogue with A.D. Hope: Dialogue One: Childhood & Adolescence

Ann McCulloch
Deakin University
Dialogue One is an attempt to navigate territory that might be seen as Hope’s mindscape and landscape as it emerged in childhood and adolescence.

In Dialogue with Chris Wallace-Crabbe

David McCooey
Deakin University
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe was born in Melbourne in 1934 and is a Professor of English at Melbourne University including the directorship of the Australian Centre there between 1989 and 1994.

In Dialogue with Robert Gray

Lyn McCredden
Deakin University
Robert William Geoffrey Gray, born in Port Macquarie 1945, left school to become a journalist on a rural newspaper. After moving to Sydney, he worked as a mail sorter and bookseller, and wrote for a magazine and an advertising agency.

In Dialogue with A.D. Hope: Dialogue Two: Theatre of Thought & Creation of ‘Being’

Ann McCulloch
Deakin University
Dialogue Two focuses on the main philosophical threads in Hope’s work and attitude in which he detaches himself from all beliefs, engaging with them only when he thinks such an engagement might open up a new way of seeing.

In Dialogue with Kevin Hart

David McCooey
Deakin University
Kevin Hart, born in London in 1954 before emigrating with family to Brisbane in 1966, graduated with honours from the Australian National University where he won a writing fellowship to Stanford University in 1977.

In Dialogue with A.D. Hope Dialogue Three: Politics & Poetics of Australian Literature

Ann McCulloch
Deakin University
Dialogue Three aims to hear his side of the story as Hope has become, in many circles, the embodiment of what is euphemistically called ‘the dead white male,’ a title attributed to him long before his actual death in July 2000.

In Dialogue with Laurie Duggan

David McCooey
Deakin University
Laurence James Duggan (b.1949) studied at Monash, Sydney, and Melbourne universities, completing a doctorate in fine arts in 1999. He has taught creative writing, media studies, and art history as well as working as an art critic, a scriptwriter, and a poetry editor for Meanjin.

In Dialogue with Vivian Smith

David McCooey
Deakin University
Vivian Brian Smith, born in Hobart in 1933, left for Sydney in 1967 where he established himself as a noted critic, editor, and anthologist who has mainly focused upon Australian writers.

Poets often hide behind their words and only on rare occasions do we access their worlds that exist outside their art. These interviews with poets are not to suggest that biographical information about their lives and the creation of their art can in any final way explain their art. In most cases one will find that all poets will avoid any simple cause and effect relationship between the life and the art.

Nevertheless no matter how determined poets are to hide behind their metaphors they can’t help engaging with debates about poetic processes nor do they always resist when asked about influences, love affairs, favourite foods and most ferocious enemies. In these dialogues you will discover new stories about Australia’s most celebrated poets.

 

Double Dialogues | Refereed Arts Journal | ISSN 1447-9591  
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