On love and loss

Book review of '100 Australian poems of love and loss' edited by Jamie Grant.

Each doppelganger love

A diverse and hybrid text which interweaves poetry and prose to form a series of meditations on the theme of the hidden stories which lurk behind literary masks. It proposes: If fiction has a nature, then its nature is to hide just as soon as it utters the words we cannot speak. This composition also explicates the hidden stories that have brought this text to fruition.

Love, politics, time

Featuring the musical compositional techniques of phase, repetition and pulse, with the sounds of New York recorded from a 16th floor hotel window, this sonic poem is a plea for the intimately spoken word. As cockatoos rise in the white siren sky, two lovers confront love and time in a halting conversation inside a placeless shelter.
This performance work is a poetic and musical experimentation with ideas from the philosopher Alain Badiou. The intersection of political and amorous truth procedures thought to form the subject matter of many novels is extended upon by presenting such an intersection via the crossing of genres of music, sound art, poetry, prose and theatre. This collaborative venture forms a continuing experiment with the idea that music does not simply form a corollary with words and their representation in sound, but rather explores ways in which music can form an antagonistic relationship to the spoken word.
'Conversation in an air raid shelter' was originally presented as a live performance at Double Dialogues Conference: 'The 21st century - The Event, The Subject, The Artwork', Fiji, 2012 and the audio recording appears in Double Dialogues Issue 16, Spring 2013 with an accompanying discursive article 'Love, Politics, Time'. It is available on CD and Youtube. It was also performed at the Torquay Literary Festival in 2013. A discussion of its process by Josephine Scicluna features on a video currently in production by Deakin University for a new unit on creativity in the Bachelor of Arts program.

Exhumed [book of poetry]

Unpredictable and boisterously entertaining, Cassandra Atherton’s Exhumed is a collection of interconnected prose poems exploring the reanimation of canonical texts against a backdrop of popular culture references: William Carlos Williams, Nabokov, Stevie Smith and Emily Dickinson are paired with ‘Happy Meals’, Hill’s Hoists, Bonds t-shirts and the Moonee Valley Bistro. Divided into two parts – ‘Inter’ with its play on intertexts and ‘Disinter’ where the references are unearthed, these prose poems are fractured moments centred on love, betrayal, abandonment and death. Atherton’s appeals to l’humour noir and the politicisation of the poet’s private spaces make for an exhilarating and intoxicating read.

The Last Page: Love Story

“Love Story” a poem by Lucy Dotson ’13J

A paradise of English poetry /

Includes indexes.

The works of Thomas Love Peacock, including his novels, poems, fugitive pieces, criticisms, etc.,

v. 1. Preface. Biographical notice. Headlong hall. Melincourt. Nightmare abby.--v. 2. Maid Marian. Misfortunes of Elphin. Crotchet castle. Gryll grange--v. 3. Poetry. Miscellanies. Four ages of poetry. Horæ dramaticæ, no. 1-3 . Shelley. Shelley letters.

The works of Thomas Love Peacock.

With reproductions of original title-pages.

Children of love.

Poems.

The Altar of love : consisting of poems, and other miscellanies / by the most eminent hands ; now first collected into a volume.

Volumes issued by Curll under the above title vary considerbly in their contents.

The Helicon of love. : A selection from the poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1] and [3-6] at end.

Select translations from Old English poetry,

--Index of media.--Index of titles.

Essays on Robert Browning's poetry by John T. Nettleship.

Published also in his: Robert Browning: essays and thoughts.