Essays – Fall 2002
Fire on the Lake: Live from Druskininkai
- An account of this October’s Poetinus Druskininku ruduo 2002/ Druskininkai Poetic Fall, an annual festival in Lithuania.By regular columnist J.C. Todd
Previous Issues
Poets in Marseille
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An essay on the recent “Le Scriptorium” in Marseille, France. By the writer and journalist, Rosalind Brackenbury.
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An essay which considers the use of poetry. By the Australian writer, MTC Cronin.
- A feasting on words for the summer season. By regular columnist J.C. Todd
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Reflections on the intersection of language and event.
By regular columnist J.C.Todd.
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A short introduction to a poetic body of work that deals with rheumatoid arthritis by Australian writer Liz Hall-Downs.
- An introduction to the work of the Queensland poets whose poetry was selected for this issue by Liz Hall-Downs.
Fit of Passion: Public Performance of the Poetry of Gender
- A discussion of performance poetry and gender by Liz Hall-Downs (with Kim Downs).
Two essays on poetics and the erotic
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“Speculations on the poetic” and “The Pleasures of Poetry” by the noted Australian writer Alison Croggon.
- The experience of attending the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, by poet Donald Levering.
- A juxtaposition of loss on the global and the personal scale by regular columnist Joyce Wilson.
- A look at Lithuania poetry before and after the fall of the Soviet Union.
By the noted scholar and translator Laima Sruoginis.
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“Reflections on the Poetry of Contemporary Lithuania” by regular columnist J.C.Todd.
- Commentary on Lithuanian poetry by noted Lithuanian poets: Kornelijus Platelis, Sigitas Geda, Laurynas Katkus, Giedre Kazlauskaite.
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A thorough introduction to the thriving online Canadian literary scene, includes a comprehensive list of links to Canadian sites.
By Canadian writer and editor Michael Bryson.
- A look at the poetry of Emily Dickinson. From the forthcoming book by Aliki Barnstone.
Universal Net-Meetings and Private Poetics: an Excursus into the Future of Cyber-Culture.
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A response to the UN Dialogue Among Civilizations that wanders from the Theogony of Hesiod to the future of the net as a “Universal without the totality.”
By Erminia Passannanti.
