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Title: | Seismic, or Topogorgical, Poetry | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John Charles (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2020 | Early Online Version: | 2019 | DOI: | 10.4324/9780429032202-9 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31439 | Abstract: | The Northern Tableland plateau of New South Wales, Australia, is geologically and botanically diverse. Intensively cleared of its original vegetation since European settlement in the late-eighteenth century, the Tableland comprises a network of gorges, around which a conservation system has developed in recent decades. Protected from human impacts by virtue of the ruggedness and inaccessibility of the terrain, endemic plants populate the rim and interior reaches of these chasms. With a focus on the Tableland region, this chapter proposes a collaborative, multispecies, and postcolonial geopoetics of Australian gorgelands. In particular, it outlines three methods of geopoetics: gorge-walking, concrete-visual composition, and sonnetic composting. These approaches move between poetic practice, geographical consciousness, and botanical discourse within a phyto-geopoetics of place. Beginning with the journals of nineteenth-century explorer-surveyor John Oxley as his party traveled through the Tableland, this chapter theorizes topogorgical poetry as a mode of geopoetic practice that unsettles the topographical tradition prevailing in landscape writing. The topogorgical mode heralds a shift from the scenic to the seismic—from the visual orientation of pleasing prospects to the corporeal intergradations of convulsive country. The chapter situates my Tableland phyto-geopoetics in relation to radical landscape poetry, experimental art, and field-based creative practices. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Geopoetics in Practice, p. 101-116 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | London, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9780429032202 9780367145385 9780367145378 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | WorldCat record: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1258124817 | Series Name: | Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity | Editor: | Editor(s): Eric Magrane, Linda Russo, Sarah de Leeuw and Craig Santos Perez |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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