The Locatedness of Poetry

Authors

  • Lyn McCredden Deakin University

Keywords:

Tony Birch, Sam Wagan Watson, Lionel Fogarty, Indigenous poetry,

Abstract

This essay argues that understanding the locatedness of poetry is crucial as a measure by which to sift the high rhetorics of national, cosmopolitan, globalising discourses. In an analysis of the poetry of Indigenous writers Tony Birch, Sam Wagan Watson and Lionel Fogarty, and of the Federal Government's Apology to the Stolen Generations, we can see more clearly the role of literature, and particularly poetry, in debates between the local and the global.

Author Biography

Lyn McCredden, Deakin University

Lyn McCredden teaches at Deakin University. She is the author of James McAuley (OUP 1992), co-author with Rose Lucas of Bridgings:Reading Australian Women's Poetry (OUP 1996) and co-editor with Frances Devlin-Glass of Feminist Poetics of the Sacred:Creative Suspicions (OUP 2002).

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