Cover

Polysituatedness

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Preface/synopsis

A polysituated ode with occasional, demi-Boustrophedon

1 On place itself

A personal introduction on practice and context including someexternal considerations of ‘place’

Polysituated(ness): international regionalism

Agoras

Redefining or maybe replacing ‘place’: towards a theology ofpresence?Consequences and responsibility

Application

For beauty’s sake

Overhearing: poetics of place with brief reference toJack Davis’s poetry

Concretion and damage: a pre-manifesto (though written after)

De-mapping – Jam Tree Gully 4 Concretions Manifesto 1

Concreted protest poem against bauxite mine at Morangup

Further Jam Tree Gully concretions

Near Goomalling: Oak Park concretions

Living with Moondyne Joe: points de repère

2 Where we are

A polysituated manifest (with an incomplete circle ‘o’),on Jack Davis, Tennyson and Socrates

3 Displaced acts of writing

Displaced acts of writing

Anti-‘craft’ in the context of Western capitalist cultures

A brief look at the avant-garde and ‘Western’ spirituality

Rereading

The eternal work-in-progress

I’ll tell you a story

Uses of knowledge/data/detail in writing and reading

Where I sit in the process: working with Ali Alizadeh to producean anthology of Persian poetry

Auguste Lacaussade

On the track of desiring and absence: a letter to McKenzie Warkon his email correspondence with Kathy Acker

4 Sublimated displacements in read texts

On sublimated displacements in read texts (including a gesturetowards a thread in the definition of ‘displacement’)

A rage for verse: the case for Charles Walker as the author ofthe first volume of verse published in Western Australia(1856)

Further reconstruction: coda or prologue?

Henry Lawson: national displacements

On Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

The collapse of space: on Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses

Inevitability and searching in John Mateer’s Elsewhere

Tales of place: Barbara Temperton’s Southern Edge

On Contemporary Asian Australian Poets

On the poetry of Janet McAdams

5 Emplacement

Corthna, Carraiglea, Anchor Lodge – from Schull Journals

More from a Schull Journal

On the trauma of writing ‘Seeing’ and the urge to createa poem after journeying out on the Mizen

Further extracts from a Schull Journal

On painting and poetry

Also from a Schull Journal

More ‘ways of seeing

From a Schull Journal

Terms and conditions of writing place?

Irredentism

Being back: place, storage, waste and (un)belonging

Storage

From storage towards waste

Finding belonging?

The place of reading: the geographical context of (re)readingThe Jindyworobaks and self – from Schull to an imaginaryAustralia

Harvesting the grass (from a Schull Journal)

Last entries in Volume Three of a Schull Journal

Coda: changing route (October 2015)

6 Weirding place/Anti-bucolic

‘Below the surface-stream, shallow and light’ – transferences ofweirding place

Working with Thurston Moore on the poems of a RemarkableGrey Horse

Eclogue failure or success: the collaborative activism of poetry –working with Charmaine Papertalk-Green

7 Appendices

1: Some answers to missing questions

2: Manifesto against rapacity

3: Landfill: a conversation between John Kinsella andMcKenzie Wark

4: Notes on globalisation and neo-Luddism

5: Graphology mutations 11: reclaiming ‘dwell’

Bibliography