Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Poetry of Dennis Haskell : Stylisation and Elegy
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'In this essay I concentrate on the elegiac poetry of the Australian poet Dennis Haskell. I argue that the emphasis in Haskell’s work on the quotidian, clarity of expression and the communication of emotion, has a material effect on the ways in which Haskell approaches the elegiac project: the poetic expression of grief in the face of loss. In the essay I identify three main classes of elegy in Haskell’s oeuvre: elegies for fellow poets (which, after Lawrence Lipking, I call “tombeaux”); the familial elegy; and the spousal elegy. Haskell’s engagement with the genre of the elegy therefore occupies a spectrum between what might be termed “public” elegies, and “intimate” elegies. As I discuss, the intimate elegies indicate a more profound, and sometimes troubled, engagement with the genre of elegy, tipping on occasion in anti -elegy and self-elegy. By undertaking textual analyses of various poems from within the three classes of elegy practised by Haskell, I illustrate the different ways in which he deals with one of the most profound problems that faces an elegist: how to express the profound emotion of grief through the affordances of poetic stylisation.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Asiatic Special Issue on the Poetry and Poetics of Dennis Haskell vol. 13 no. 2 December 2019 18622942 2019 periodical issue 'This issue of Asiatic (Vol. 13, No. 2) is dedicated to the life and works of Dennis Haskell (1948-),a long-standing friend of the Journal, who has been on its Advisory Board since the Journal’s inception. He is also an ardent champion of Asian literature who has been at the forefront of literary representations of Australian-Asian interactions and has shown an extensive understanding of Asian cultures both in his creative and critical works.Together with Edwin Thumboo and late Bruce Bennett, he has been a driving force behind the Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region, which began in 1982 and has been taking place since every two years in different countries of the region, two of which (2009, 2017) were, indeed, hosted by the same institution where Asiatic is also housed, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Moreover, he came to IIUM as a visiting professor in 2018.' (Honouring Dennis Haskell : A Poet and an Amigo of Asiatic and Asian Literature, editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 19-35
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