Alex Selenitsch Alex Selenitsch i(A9352 works by) (a.k.a. Alexander Selenitsch)
Born: Established: 1946 Regensburg,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1949
Heritage: German
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1 Assembly Lines Alex Selenitsch , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023;
During conversation, Phil Day suggests an assembly line ritual that might have been played out in the production of (medieval) hand-written texts: one person rules in the lines and passes the sheet to the next scribe who draws in the verticals. The sheet then goes to the next scribe who does the horizontals, then to another to do the obliques and so on to the colourist or illustrator. It’s a modern projection onto an imagined hand-drawn past. (Contextual Statement: Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Purgatorio Re-placed Alex Selenitsch , Elizabeth Bay : Life Before Man , 2021 23065951 2021 selected work poetry

'Purgatorio Re-placed is a re-write of Dante’s Purgatorio, the second book of his Divine Comedy. Using Dorothy Sayers’ translation as a guide, Alex Selenitsch keeps Dante’s overall and detail structure of 33 Cantos or chapters but rewrites the epic in modern Australian English. Dante’s medieval list of sins, his characters and events are replaced with Australian ones, while the mountain is flattened out to encompass the continent of Australia. Over this geography, the new poem deals with issues of art and creativity, and the development of a poetic voice.'

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1 y separately published work icon Look! Alex Selenitsch , Carlton : Cordite Press , 2021 23060310 2021 selected work poetry

'My poems are visual representations of reading. In our culture, this activity is usually silent and optically complex. Conventional meanings are often simple compared to the actual signs and their contexts, which in turn are rarely exploited for poetic potential. My usual way of dealing with this seems simple in retrospect: I imagine the context of the linguistic event, and within that make one gesture. So: one sequence, one page, one word, one letter; often all of the ‘ones’ together. To work through an idea may take many separate gestures, producing something like variations.

'I have made poems using a range of materials: plastic letters, dry-transfer letters, sticky vinyls, MDF cut-outs; and methods: silk-screen printing, photocopying, mechanical and electric typewriters. Since the advent of the PC, most of my work is on the computer. The individual sequences in this book are usually printed on loose A4 pages, tucked into plastic folders. –Alex Selenitsch'

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1 .free Electrons in a Magnetic Field. i "abcdefghijklmn pqrstuvwxyz", Alex Selenitsch , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 93 2019;
1 Ten Atmospheres (A Chapbook) Alex Selenitsch , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;

'Ten atmospheres is a graphic sequence that embeds the word atmosphere in a matrix of the alphabet. Ten letters in the word give ten pages; five have the word picked out vertically, five have it picked out horizontally. The colour sequence for the consecutive pages, and for consecutive letters in the word, is taken from the order of colours available in the modifiers of the word program. Although the patterns are visual, they are not pictorial. Instead of presenting a picture of atmosphere, the texts work on the usual convention of left to right flow, using memory and prediction as reading qualities. The reader is asked to experience what the word stands for through their reading, at the scale of the individual page and the scale of the set.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon 10 Books, 5 Makers : Australian Books in Washington DC Ten Books, Five Makers : Australian Books in Washington DC Alex Selenitsch , Marian Crawford , Jorge Albert Lozoya , Alan Loney , Melbourne : Codex , 2014 8265727 2014 anthology criticism
1 Horizon Thru & Thru Alex Selenitsch , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; (p. 66)
1 As it Was, As it Is Alex Selenitsch , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; (p. 55-61)
1 Lightning i "lightni_", Alex Selenitsch , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 773-774)
1 Delta i "delta", Alex Selenitsch , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 768-772)
1 The Halfway House Alex Selenitsch , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 70-87)
1 y separately published work icon Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Magpie Alex Selenitsch , Clifton Hill : Alex Selenitsch , 1998 Z1417338 1998 single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Augenblick (Moment) Alex Selenitsch , Clifton Hill : Alex Selenitsch , 1998 Z1417331 1998 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Boats : Poems Alex Selenitsch , Aireys Inlet : SWAMP , 1997 Z1417353 1997 selected work poetry
1 Filaments i "1. The aphorism: a filament which sings.", Alex Selenitsch , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 56 no. 2 1996; (p. 200)
1 Sing Sign Alex Selenitsch , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 88-89)
1 y separately published work icon Real Estates of the Heart Ruth Cowen , Stephen Coppel , Alex Selenitsch , Canberra : Graphic Investigation Workshop , 1991 Z1689766 1991 selected work poetry
1 Untitled i "[concrete poem]", Alex Selenitsch , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 10-11 1990; (p. 157)
1 Signnature i "[concrete poem]", Alex Selenitsch , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 10-11 1990; (p. 157)
1 For Those Who Can Read Only Alex Selenitsch , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , October no. 116 1989; (p. 86-88)

— Review of Fitzroy Poems TT. O , 1989 selected work poetry
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