Ode to Tropical Skiing single work   poetry   "After breakfast in the Philippines"
Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Ode to Tropical Skiing
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  • Dedication: for Mandy Connell

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Does Function Follow Form? Openness and Formal Association in the Early Poetry of John Forbes Aidan Coleman , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;

'This article aims to reconstruct features of John Forbes’ compositional process in his first decade of serious practice, through analysing drafts and early versions of his poems. I compare early versions of ‘Here’, ‘The Joyful Mysteries’ and ‘Stalin’s Holidays’ to their final incarnations to show how Forbes was resistant to a fixed, or single, idea when writing a poem. In the context of such openness, Forbes’ poems often moved towards a sense of closure, through the pressure his use of form applied and through its more suggestive qualities. Following a comment Forbes made in an interview, I label this process ‘formal association’. I contend that Forbes sought a balance between closure and openness, while arguing that the dynamic interplay of this openness with formal association, during the composition, was crucial to his achievement.' (Publication abstract)
 

Seeking the Missing Person, or Reading the Poetry of John Forbes Alan Urquhart , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 9-25)
Seeking the Missing Person, or Reading the Poetry of John Forbes Alan Urquhart , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 9-25)
Does Function Follow Form? Openness and Formal Association in the Early Poetry of John Forbes Aidan Coleman , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;

'This article aims to reconstruct features of John Forbes’ compositional process in his first decade of serious practice, through analysing drafts and early versions of his poems. I compare early versions of ‘Here’, ‘The Joyful Mysteries’ and ‘Stalin’s Holidays’ to their final incarnations to show how Forbes was resistant to a fixed, or single, idea when writing a poem. In the context of such openness, Forbes’ poems often moved towards a sense of closure, through the pressure his use of form applied and through its more suggestive qualities. Following a comment Forbes made in an interview, I label this process ‘formal association’. I contend that Forbes sought a balance between closure and openness, while arguing that the dynamic interplay of this openness with formal association, during the composition, was crucial to his achievement.' (Publication abstract)
 

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