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'Ahead of Us is Haskell’s eighth book of poetry. Dedicated to his wife Rhonda, who lost her battle with cancer after a long illness, Ahead of Us contains poems of love, of two people forging a partnership together and of the inevitable end of that partnership when one person dies.

'It is a celebration of life and and of the fragile thread that holds us here.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • 'Written in memory of his late wife, Rhonda, the book will raise much needed funds for the Cancer Council WA.' (Source: Fremantle Press website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 112p.
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      • Published : 1 February 2016
      ISBN: 9781925163285
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Works about this Work

A Review of Dennis Haskell’s ‘Ahead of Us’ Phillip Hall , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;
— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry
The Sliding Scale of Self-Repair in Dennis Haskell’s Acts of Defiance Page Richards , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 13 no. 2 2019; (p. 36-57) 'The contemporary lyric’s rich possibilities for resituating history and life stories still remain largely unexplored. Lyric poetry and history have always had, understandably, an uneasy relationship; the lyric is traditionally linked to the symbolic, not to fact or even necessarily, as we know from medieval or earlier poems, to a speaker that we can name or authorise. Yet, the instrument and agency of lyric evolve too, like science and technology, making room for strengths previously unexploited, rooted and waiting. Dennis Haskell’s powerful body of work, balancing on a delicate and self-referential focus on human language itself, offers us a glimpse into the future. This article offers a critical study of 21st ecosystems of human language, as acts of self-repair, a perspective permeating Dennis Haskell’s pioneering and poetic cycle of work, resonant with medical discoveries in our era. As we look ahead through the lens of Haskell’s “geographies of time,” we also explore lyric legacies of the elegiac, pointing us to update continuously our apprehension of the human body of language among the larger balances, of earth and space, and, then again, with one another, up close.' (Publication abstract)
The Poetry of Dennis Haskell : Stylisation and Elegy David McCooey , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 13 no. 2 2019; (p. 19-35) '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)
“A Need for Voices” : The Poetry of Dennis Haskell Kieran Dolin , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 13 no. 2 2019; (p. 6-18) 'This article presents a critical reading of the poetry of Dennis Haskell. Inspired by the experience of hearing the poet read, it uses the concept of poetic voice as an entry point for critical analysis. Haskell has described his poetic aim as being to “write a poetry that incorporates ideas but never ostentatiously … with as quiet as possible verbal skill, and in a way that evokes the deepest emotions” (Landbridge) . The paper identifies key aspects of voice in the poetry, drawing on arguments by Robert Pinsky and Al Alvarez that voice implies a reaching out to an auditor or reader, and thus has social and cultural dimensions. Attending to both technique and meaning, it first analyses two short lyric poems by Haskell, “One Clear Call” and “The Call,” which explore the power of voice in poetic and pre-linguistic settings respectively. Poetic voice becomes a vehicle of social critique in “Australian Language’s Tribute to the Times,” a bemused satire on the clichéd language of modern politics and economics. In the next section of the paper the focus shifts to his recurrent creative interest in poems of international travel and in particular international flight. The experience of flying is the subject of lucid, practical philosophical reflections in “GA873: The Meaning of Meaning” and “Reality’s Conquests,” while in “As You Are, As We Are” and “Our Century,” Haskell presents vivid intercultural encounters in a voice that is candid, observant and responsive to others.' (Publication abstract)
Every Room You Enter Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 55)
— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry ; Small Town Soundtrack Brendan Ryan , 2015 selected work poetry ; 101 Poems John Foulcher , 2015 selected work poetry
Review Short : Dennis Haskell’s Ahead of Us Anne-Marie Newton , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry
Every Room You Enter Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 55)
— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry ; Small Town Soundtrack Brendan Ryan , 2015 selected work poetry ; 101 Poems John Foulcher , 2015 selected work poetry
Australian Poetry Ali Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 September 2016; (p. 25)
— Review of This Is What Gives Us Time Kevin Brophy , 2016 selected work poetry ; Testicle & Tomb Philip Hammial , 2016 selected work poetry ; Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry ; They Call Us Loud William Beale , 2015 selected work poetry
A Review of Dennis Haskell’s ‘Ahead of Us’ Phillip Hall , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;
— Review of Ahead of Us Dennis Haskell , 2016 selected work poetry
Professor’s Poetry in Emotion William Yeoman , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 January 2016; (p. 96) 'Dennis Haskell says poetry should speak to everyone'
“Ahead of Us” : Siobhan Hodge Interviews Dennis Haskell Siobhan Hodge (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January - March no. 17 2016;
Dennis Haskell, Ahead of Us Angshuman Kar , 2016 single work essay review
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 10 no. 2 2016;
“A Need for Voices” : The Poetry of Dennis Haskell Kieran Dolin , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 13 no. 2 2019; (p. 6-18) 'This article presents a critical reading of the poetry of Dennis Haskell. Inspired by the experience of hearing the poet read, it uses the concept of poetic voice as an entry point for critical analysis. Haskell has described his poetic aim as being to “write a poetry that incorporates ideas but never ostentatiously … with as quiet as possible verbal skill, and in a way that evokes the deepest emotions” (Landbridge) . The paper identifies key aspects of voice in the poetry, drawing on arguments by Robert Pinsky and Al Alvarez that voice implies a reaching out to an auditor or reader, and thus has social and cultural dimensions. Attending to both technique and meaning, it first analyses two short lyric poems by Haskell, “One Clear Call” and “The Call,” which explore the power of voice in poetic and pre-linguistic settings respectively. Poetic voice becomes a vehicle of social critique in “Australian Language’s Tribute to the Times,” a bemused satire on the clichéd language of modern politics and economics. In the next section of the paper the focus shifts to his recurrent creative interest in poems of international travel and in particular international flight. The experience of flying is the subject of lucid, practical philosophical reflections in “GA873: The Meaning of Meaning” and “Reality’s Conquests,” while in “As You Are, As We Are” and “Our Century,” Haskell presents vivid intercultural encounters in a voice that is candid, observant and responsive to others.' (Publication abstract)
The Poetry of Dennis Haskell : Stylisation and Elegy David McCooey , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 13 no. 2 2019; (p. 19-35) '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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