Poetry On The Move

Both Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translations from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds) have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this discussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speak together about the "art" of translating poetry

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival. Oz Hardwick is a writer, photographer,music journalist, and occasional musician, based in York (UK).. He has published six poetry collections, most recently TheHouse of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017), and hasedited and co-edited several more, including (with Miles Salter) The Valley Press Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry, which was aNational Poetry Day recommendation in 2017.

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival. Jill Jones has published 11 full-length books of poetry, including Viva the Real (UQP, 2018), Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry in 2015. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018's festival. Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök teaches English at Charles Darwin University .

Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet, writer and translator whose latest books are Keeping time with Blue Hyacinths and her highly-regarded translation of Attar's Conference of the Birds. Wolpé 's literary work includes four collections of poetry, two plays, three books of translations, and three anthologies. Wolpé 's writings have been translated into eleven languages and included in numerous American and international anthologies and journals of poetry and fiction. Her writings have been featured on programs such as Selected Shorts and PRI. She has lived in the UK and Trinidad, and is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sholeh Wolpe was an international poet in residence at 2018's Poetry on the Move festival. Here she ‘takes us on a journey' through her life and poetry and introduces many of us to the delights of Attar's work.

In conjunction with the Poetry on the Move festival, selected guests are commissioned to produce a chapbook of work new to Australian audiences. The series is linked to a program of poets in residence at the University of Canberra. Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo based poet, translator and professor of critical theory at Meiji University. He is well known for his ten books of essays of which Transversal Journeys (2010) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan. Moira Egan is an American poet/translator who lives in Rome. She has published eight volumes of poetry (five in the US, three in Italy); the most recent of these are Synæsthesium (The New Criterion Prize, 2017) and Olfactorium (Italic PeQuod, 2018). Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies on four continents. Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, and The Uncommon Feast (2018) by Recent Work Press. Her work has shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

In this panel, Lines and Shapes, taken from 2018's Poetry on the Move festival, four poets discuss the importance of form in and for poetry. How does a consideration of form affect composition? Is form a conservative call to tradition, or a rediscovery that allows poets to explore new ways of working? We'll hear this question addressed by in turn, Lisa Gorton, Owen Bullock, Lisa Brockwell and Cassandra Atherton. Before opening up to a group discussion moderated by the host of the panel, Paul Munden.

Lionel Fogarty is one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers. A Yugambeh man, Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve' outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths in custody. He has published numerous collections of poetry in Australia.His most recent collections include Mogwie Idan: Stories of the land (Vagabond Press, 2012), Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) (Vagabond Press, 2014), and Selected Works 1980-2016 (re.press, 2017). Lionel's is an uncompromising vision, tempered by years of activism and community engagement. Lionel was a guest of the Poetry on the Move festival where we were lucky enough to hear him reading a selection of work taken from across his career. Lionel was also interviewed by IPSI's Jen Crawford and Paul Collis, where we catch him responding to a question on the potentials of Indigenous writing in Australia. This episode hosted by Shane Strange

Takako Arai published her first collection of poetry in 1997. Her second collection Tamashii Dansu received the Oguma Hideo Prize and several of the works were translated in Soul Dance: Poems by Takako Arai. She is an Associate Professor at Saitama University teaching Japanese language and poetry. Since 2014 she has been involved with a regional language poetry project in Ofunato city. Here, she reads ‘Dollogy' with the aid of Jen Crawford from the University of Canberra and discusses the poem at length in the interview following. For three years, Paul Munden was director of the Poetry on the Move festival. As well as being a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canberra, Paul has published five collections of poetry including Chromatic and The Bulmer Murder both released in 2017. Last year we recorded him reading live from his latest collection Chromatic (UWAP). This episode hosted by: Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney. Her seventh collection of poetry, New and Selected Poems, will be published by Giramondo in 2018. Her previous volumes have won a number of prizes including NSW, Victorian and Queensland Premiers' Poetry Awards, the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She has also been a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. She was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005–2015. Her work has been studied in schools and universities. This episode hosted by Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

"Poetry on the Move New Series 6 The Texture of Truth" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: podcast.

"Poetry on the Move New Series 5 The Science of Poetry" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020.

"Poetry on the Move New Series 4 What should poetry be?" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.

Poetry on the Move New Series 3 Poetry and Process" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.

"Poetry on the Move New Series 2: Poetry that resists 2" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.

"Poetry on the Move New Series 1 Poetry that Resists 1" by International Poetry Studies Institute. Released: 2020. Genre: Podcast.