A. J. Carruthers A. J. Carruthers i(A137088 works by) (a.k.a. Andrew Carruthers; Andrew J. Carruthers)
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1 Sound, Visual, Digital, and Conceptual Poetries in Australia A. J. Carruthers , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry 2024; (p. 334-350)
'This chapter discusses the songlines of First Nations people as living song emerging from the land and vehicle of cultural knowledge. It then analyses engagements with an international avant-garde in the twentieth century, through the transnational performances of Amanda Stewart and Chris Mann, Jas H. Duke’s Dada-inspired sound poems, Javant Biarujia’s created language, and the performance poetry of Ania Walwicz and Ouyang Yu. The chapter also investigates visual poetry in Australia, including the techniques of cryptographic symbols and icons, comic strip narratives, and collage. Using the sonnet poems of Alex Selenitsch and Cath Vidler as examples, it asserts the value of comparative readings of visual and concrete poetry. The chapter suggests that concrete poetry of the 1970s, hypermedia experiments of the 1980s, and Language art all typically fall outside institutional histories and often unsettle the constitution of a national literature. It distinguishes conceptual poetry from electronic poetry, arguing that the conceptual poem questions the ground of the work while electronic poetry tests new environments and makes poetry through the test.'

Source: Abstract.

1 1 y separately published work icon AXIS Z Book 3 A. J. Carruthers , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2023 26023683 2023 selected work poetry

'Drawing on media such as musical notation, Carruthers writes in vertical verse stanzas that can be read in any direction; recalling the the palindromic poems in the Chinese poetic tradition, they challenge the dominant linear mode of thinking and writing in the West. Z book 3 is the third book in the AXIS series, a lifelong project begun in 2011.' (Publication summary)

1 Zoa i "Let", A. J. Carruthers , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;
1 Two Volumes of Homings and Departures A. J. Carruthers , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 33 2021; (p. 157-167)

— Review of Homings and Departures : Selected Poems from Contemporary China and Australia 2021 anthology poetry
1 Antic Cinquains 1 i "Conditionally Archibáld flew selectively as if át fictive spirit", A. J. Carruthers , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , February no. 52 2019;
1 Fluthering Feudalism i "Fluthering at what face-floth, custom fractur, impacting terrifically traffic?", A. J. Carruthers , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 34)
1 1 y separately published work icon AXIS : Book 2 A. J. Carruthers , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2019 16862420 2019 selected work poetry

'Book 2 is made of 3 microbooks – Blazar, Chorastics, Disk – & comprises 30 poems in total. Blazars; black hole objects with jet axes pointing towards earth. Chorastics; a chorus, a human cluster. Disk; the shape of some galaxies but also a compact storage device. Each microbook; equal number of lines for each register. Blazar in 3 registers (258 lines), Chorastics in 4 (680 lines), Disk in 5 (360). Ends with music.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Mez Breeze Between the Centuries A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Feeding the Ghost : 1 : Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry 2018; (p. 36-58)

For well over two decades now, since the middle 1990s, Mez Breeze (born Mary-Anne Breeze), has remained at the forefront of digital and electronic poetics over a period of time in which its basic functions morphed or were variously updated. A full `cyberbibliography' of her career, from older work with `net.art narratives, through what she has thought of as the "Golden Phase of Mezangelle," to her work on games like #PRISOM (2013), will turn up a vast and evolving ouevre with recurrent strands. Her most well-known invention is the generative language of "Mezangelle," which uses code, MUD (Multi-User-Domain), online chatlogs, avatars, JavaScript and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) as procedural, linguistic and textural means, and ends, for poetics. The result is an absorptive and playful reworking of these into poems and, as I will pay special attention to here, sequences of poems. Breeze's writingways share topoi that interweave the digital and ethics, language and ecology, the abstraction of contemporary life and what she described to me in an email as "A sense of sP[I]ace collapsing + concertinaed comprehension-nesting, of contractions and expansions." Such writing is situated in spatial locales both matrixial and fractal; "shaped by my own personal intrigue with language and the land, of openings within openings, of lingual whorls and patterns that blossom + contract." ' (Introduction) 
 

1 Jas H. Duke and the Chronicle of Avant-Garde Poetics A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 18 2018;

'The critical study of Australian poetics has often been unable to account for those more difficult limit-cases in neo-avant-garde and contemporary experimental poetry. This article examines the heterogeneous works of Jas H.Duke (1939-1992) as both resolving and opening up further contradictions around questions of "derivation" in antipodal experimental writing. Duke's poetics, performances and writing practices are informed by Dadaism, Expressionism, Suprematism and Concrete Poetry, but also rework these histories; sometimes sarcastically, but always with close attention to their aesthetics. I put a special focus on those works of Duke's that critique notions of Australian nationhood, public policy and cultural assumptions, poems which call for a localised yet transcultural avant-garde poetics. Implicit here is that critical study of Australian poetry must begin to make sense of its languages of invention, and to find ways of reading those poetries that call for a more total emancipation of disjunction.' (Publication abstract)

1 Outscape : Twenty-Four Propositions A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2018;

'From shell to kernel and kernel to shell: poetry of this guise is not referential toward or unto an external event because the poem itself is an event. Internal meaning plus intrinsic structure: whether much or nothing "happens" in a poem is of secondary concern. If nothing seems to be happening, critics may pay close attention. How extrinsic reversals occur in rhythm and rhythmic concepts of the poem is how outscape moves to outstress.' (Publication abstract)

1 EvFL i "vain, jadeworsted, giantesque-bedizzened Sophisticated sponge 1", A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 22 2018;
1 Who's Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the Twenty-First Century A. J. Carruthers , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;

'There has been a rich history of anthologising Australian poetry this far into the twenty-first century. This article claims that contemporary poetics, with a renewed focus on the recoprocal relation between cultural and linguistic inquiry, can rediscover alternative ways of reading the history of Australian avant-garde, inventive and experimental work. Considering several key anthologies published after the turn of last century, the article provides readings of both the frameworks the anthology-makers provide and the poems themselves, claiming that mark, trace and lexical segmentivities can already be read as social. It then proposes a new possibility for an experimental anthology that might bring these facets into lived praxis: the chrestomathy.' (Publication abstract)

1 Ten from Versificator i "Eīght dāys zōne Beachāmp condītions tērminates", A. J. Carruthers , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 February no. 44 2017;
1 The EM+ Stanzas A. J. Carruthers , 2017 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Poetics Research , September no. 7 2017;
1 The Pavanne for Hanne Darboven i "holographic archives noisy numerals, eerist", A. J. Carruthers , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November vol. 83 no. 2017;
1 The Blazar Axes i "Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic", A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 55.0 2016;
1 Music for Hazel Smith A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
1 Music, after Michael Dransfield A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
1 Axis 46 : Cabinets A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Active Aesthetics : Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
1 So Experimental Your Wickets Will Fall, off! A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 3 2016;

— Review of Hows Its : The "C.S.W." Cricket Score Book Nick Whittock , 2014 selected work poetry
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