I suspect this chat with A.J. Carruthers about experimental poetry in Australia will kick start your next poem. We cover a lot of ground, from defining sound poetry to whether experimental work needs more recognition. But my favourite moment is when A.J. says: ‘Poetry is not a profession. It doesn’t profess, but it does. It’s about doing and about being with.’
Show notes
- A.J’s Southerly blog post My ‘Avant-Garde Card’: Five Aesthetic Categories
- Catherine Vidler’s Lost Sonnets
- Poems by Nick Whittock
- A.J. on Twitter re: Corey Wakeling’s review and experimentalism in OzPo.
- Kurt Schwitter’s sound poem Cigarren
- Jackson Mac Low
- Ania Walwicz
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