A Migrant Writer on the Bus (Thinking of Kundera) single work   poetry   "The body crosses over quickly"
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 A Migrant Writer on the Bus (Thinking of Kundera)
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First known date: 2008
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 55 no. 2 November Delys Bird (editor), Tony Hughes-d'Aeth (editor), 2010 Z1753284 2010 periodical issue 2010 pg. 62-63
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Thirty Australian Poets Felicity Plunkett (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1811253 2011 anthology poetry

    'A landmark anthology celebrating a new generation of Australian poets.

    '1968 marked a turning point in Australian poetry, when a dynamic wave of new poets sought to revitalise a "moribund poetic culture". At the helm of that generation was John Tranter who argued that there would be cycles or generations of poets with peak moments where new poets would emerge to revitalise the culture.

    'Forty years later, with a spate of superb debut collections, Australian poetry has never looked so energetic and vital. From the imaginatively mind-boggling to the exquisitely lyrical, from tender and edgy erotic currents to wild feats of intellect and playfulness, the dynamism of contemporary Australian poetry is abundantly evident.

    'Thirty Australian Poets is the first anthology to celebrate the generation of poets born after 1968 and includes a wonderful diversity of voices and styles, from re-imagined versions of traditional forms to the experimental and avant-garde. This groundbreaking anthology captures the spirit of an exciting generation who, between them, have won every major poetry award, and made the renaissance of Australian poetry impossible to ignore.' (From the publisher's website.)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011
    pg. 149-150

Works about this Work

Breaching the Social Contract : The Migrant Poet and the Politics of Being Apolitical Danijela Kambaskovic , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 96-122)

'In Breaching the Social Contract: The Migrant Poet and the Politics of Being Apolitical , Danijela Kambaskovic writes of the difficulties of returning to poetry in another language and the loaded presumptions surrounding the figure of the migrant poet.' (Vickery and Alizadeh, 14)

Breaching the Social Contract : The Migrant Poet and the Politics of Being Apolitical Danijela Kambaskovic , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 96-122)

'In Breaching the Social Contract: The Migrant Poet and the Politics of Being Apolitical , Danijela Kambaskovic writes of the difficulties of returning to poetry in another language and the loaded presumptions surrounding the figure of the migrant poet.' (Vickery and Alizadeh, 14)

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