This Friday, join an afternoon discussion and reading of Australian and U.S. queer poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on affective aspects, based around the visit of Professor Brian Reed, of the University of Washington in Seattle. The panel also features poet and scholar Assoc. Professor Kate Lilley, of the University of Sydney, and Dr Michael Farrell, Melbourne poet, co-editor of the lesbian and gay poetry anthology Out of the Box, and author of a recent book on colonial Australian poetics: Writing Australian Unsettlement. It is a unique event seeking to theorise and investigate relations between the queer history of Australian poetry with the contemporary; as well as correspondences – and differences – between Australia and the U.S.
The event will begin with a panel of papers, chaired by UNSW Art and Design’s Dr Astrid Lorange, poet and author of How Reading is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein, followed by discussion. There will be a short break followed by a poetry reading from all four speakers.
To be held at Io Myers Studio, UNSW Kensington, 3-6pm 9 September 2016. Jointly hosted by UNSWriting, Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, UNSW Art & Design, School of the Arts & Media.
To reserve a seat, go to: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/queer-sentiments/