S8E32- The Hive Poetry Collective (podcast). Joel O'Connor chats with Julia Chiapella 14-08-26
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The Hive Poetry Collective is a globally streaming, industry-revered podcast showcasing award-winning international talent and diverse, powerful voices in contemporary poetry.
'What transforms grasshoppers into a rapacious horde? Poet, essayist, playwright and activist uses his most recent work, , as a bridge between science and politics, between our nature as humans and the world around us. Listen to this interview and be transported to an Australia that exists beneath and alongside the contemporary culture, a place of regard and humility in the face of all that threatens the natural world.'
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Key sections of the podcast:
1:08 Introduction
2:17- Influence of A.D Hope's poem 'Australia'
8:25- Contrast between Hope's colonial mindset and my post-colonial ecological one alongside recognition of Indigenous culture
11:50- My embodied response to place in the Australian bush
14:15- Discussing current 'Locust' suite
29:48- The science behind my work and connection with the human heart
31:13- Svetlana
32:36- Influence of nature on my poetry
34:33- Current colonial impact of appreciation of nature in Australia
35:55- Millennium Poets
37:03- Describing the form of poetry I created 'Duograms'
39:20- Poem in response to Stephen Hawkin idea that the universe is a hologram
41:35- Embracing the 'uncertainty' princple
43:19- Discussion about translating Mikhail Prishvin's work
46:58- Reading and discussing 'The people just left' about impact of Indigenous genocide on the places were I grew up
51:30- Presenter plug to buy my work
52:18- Reading 'Gold dust'
54:40- Inspiration from poets who say the most on the least words
54:13- Reading 'The god of simple pleasures'
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