Ecopoetics in Australia
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Location: The Stretton Room, 420 Napier Building
- Contact: J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice +61 8 8313 9164
- Email: jmcoetzeecentre@adelaide.edu.au
Masterclasses with Jill Jones and Peter Minter
DATE: Wed 20th July
VENUE: The Stretton Room, 420 Napier Building
TIME: Masterclass 1 (Jill Jones) 10.30am - 1pm. Masterclass 2 (Peter Minter) 2 - 4.30pm
From the pathetic fallacy to the moody vistas of impressionist and expressionist painting, depictions of nature in art are often imbued with our internal emotional states. But in an age facing the environmental challenges of climate change, depictions of the natural world have shifted, reflecting new anxieties and offering fresh philosophical insights into the relationship between humankind and the planet.
Acclaimed poets Jill Jones and Peter Minter will discuss the way their poetry reflects our shifting relationship to the environment in two thought-provoking masterclasses.
Jill Jones
Jill Jones is one of Australia’s leading contemporary poets, with nine full-length books of poetry to her name, as well as numerous chapbooks. Her most recent collection, Breaking the Days, won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize in 2014 and was published in 2015. Another recent book, The Beautiful Anxiety, won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, while Screen, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and The Mask and the Jagged Star won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. Her poems have appeared in major anthologies and have been translated in Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian. She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis, artist Bruno Leti, and artist and poet Angela Gardner on mixed media projects that have been presented at festivals and events around Australia, NZ and the UK.
Peter Minter
Peter Minter is a leading Australian poet, poetry editor and writer on poetry and poetics. He has made a central contribution to experimentation in Australian poetry since the late 1990s, with a focus on decolonised geophilosophies and emergent identities. His books include Empty Texas and blue grass, and his poetry has been widely published
and translated. He was a founding editor of Cordite and co-edited the anthologies Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. He has curated numerous poetry events, art exhibitions and academic seminars, has been the poetry editor for leading Australian journals Meanjin and Overland, and is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, where he teaches contemporary poetry, ecopoetics, creative writing and Indigenous studies.
To register for these masterclasses please email rita.horanyi@adelaide.edu.au