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DISCLOSED POETICS
Beyond landscape and lyricism
John Kinsella
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations pagevii
Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
IPastoral, landscape, place ... 1
Definitions of pastoral? 1
Can there be a radical ‘western’ pastoral? 4
Parrotology (on the necessity of parrots in poetry) 16
Landscape poetry? 30
The dark side of the beach: undisclosed poetics 36
IISpatial lyricism 47
A new lyricism: some early thoughts on linguistic disobedience 47
Olivetti Lettera 32 74
Distortions – on questioning the primacy of the accented
syllable: notes on alternative spatialities for poetic rhythm 78
Line breaks and back-draft: not a defence of a poem 93
Line breaks coda 101
The search for the new idea, the unique? Against poetics? 102
On Graphology 110
IIIManifestoes 113
Anthologising the nation 113
Notes towards netdeath and the loss of page style: working
‘off the page’? 119
Consensus 124
The group, linguistic innovation, and international regionalism:
prelude to the preparation of a group manifesto 128
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Intensivism 137
Hyperpoetics and the curvature of subsets 140
Treatise on rooms and windows 144
IVAgeing, loss, recidivism ... 161
Domine, refugium ... 161
Graphol-age-ia poetica: ageing as confrontation or avoidance
of death 168
A loss of poetics 183
Poetics recidivous and the de-poetics of lightning, herbicides,
and pesticides 199
Afterword to The New Arcadia 221
V Appendices 226
From Marcus Clarke’s ‘Preface’ to the Poemsof Adam Lindsay
Gordon, 1880/1893 226
Windows 228
Imitation Spatialogue (Sublime) 230
Letter from Graham Nerlich 234
Bibliography 240
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 North Window 1 page158
2 North Window 2 158
3 North Window 3 158
4 South Window 158
All photographs taken by John Kinsella.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I’d like to thank the many journals and conferences that have
supported sections of this work in various drafts. Special thanks are due
to Andrew Taylor, Gerard Greenway and my partner, Tracy (Ryan)
Kinsella. Also, I would like to extend special thanks to Dennis Haskell,
Glen Phillips, Marjorie Perloff, Brian Worsfold and Maria Vidal at the
English Department at the University of Lleida; the editors and
readers at Angelaki, Artful Dodge, The Australian Book Review,
Colorado Review, The Commonwealth Review, Island Magazine, The
Literary Review, Meanjin, Poetry Review, Salzburg Review, Southerly;
Kenyon College in Ohio, Churchill College at Cambridge University,
the Landscape and Language Centre at Edith Cowan University; Bill
Louden for being generally interested and supportive; Manchester
University Press, Matthew Frost and the press’s readers; and many
others. I would also like to acknowledge and thank those I have chatted
with about various issues discussed in this book.
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