TY - JOUR
T1 - Poetry writing workshops as 'true, impossible archives' (or, teaching as collaborative research)
AU - Fagan, Kate
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In my poetry writing workshops I often teach ‘Wild flowers’, a stunning poem by Yankunytjatjara author Ali Cobby Eckermann. Several years ago, my first-year students at Western Sydney University were reading ‘Wild Flowers’ alongside ‘Rise Again’ by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. One student offered an electrifying reading of Eckermann’s poem that I’ve never forgotten.2 He began by recalling a trip to Beirut he’d made as a young adult, long after leaving the city as a child and migrating with his family to Western Sydney. How did the city appear to you, I asked? The same, he deadpanned, with more bullet holes.
AB - In my poetry writing workshops I often teach ‘Wild flowers’, a stunning poem by Yankunytjatjara author Ali Cobby Eckermann. Several years ago, my first-year students at Western Sydney University were reading ‘Wild Flowers’ alongside ‘Rise Again’ by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. One student offered an electrifying reading of Eckermann’s poem that I’ve never forgotten.2 He began by recalling a trip to Beirut he’d made as a young adult, long after leaving the city as a child and migrating with his family to Western Sydney. How did the city appear to you, I asked? The same, he deadpanned, with more bullet holes.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:59883
UR - http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AHR68_03_Fagan.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 1325-8338
VL - 68
SP - 19
EP - 29
JO - Australian Humanities Review
JF - Australian Humanities Review
ER -