Axon/Poetry on the Move – Call for Papers – Due 29 April

Editors of the journal Axon: Creative Explorations are calling for papers for an upcoming symposium and special journal edition.

The special edition – Poetry on the Move: Small Steps, Giant Leaps – is linked to an upcoming symposium in Canberra on 21 October 2019. Held during the Poetry on the Move Festival (17–21 October 2019), the event is being organised and hosted by the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) in the Faculty of Arts and Design, at the University of Canberra.

This edition aims to explore ways in which contemporary poetry uses or harnesses knowledge of various kinds, and how poetry understands the world. For example, how does poetry make use of, interact with or transform existing bodies of knowledge? And how is poetry itself a form of knowing? If poetry may be said to produce knowledge, what kind of knowledge is it?

The editors are interested in papers that explore…

  • poetry’s relationship to various conceptions of truth (social, political, abstract, aesthetic)
  • embodied knowledges
  • cultural knowledge
  • the play of convention and subversion
  • poetry’s use of and intersection with knowledge from other intellectual domains (e.g. science, mathematics, philosophy, economics, etc.)
  • poetry’s incorporation of knowledge about the environment, climate and landscape
  • poetic modes of thinking and cognition
  • poetry and the thought-feeling nexus
  • ways in which, or techniques through which, poetry explores knowledge
  • heuristic knowledge and trial and error
  • ways in which poetry produces knowledge
  • poetic revision as a pathway to knowledge
  • how poetic expression relates to the production of knowledge
  • poetry and the ephemeral

Potential contributors should submit a 150-word abstract of their proposed paper by 29 April 2019. Notification of acceptance is scheduled for 24 May 2019, with a full written paper of between 3000 and 6000 words due by 15 November 2019. Please address all abstracts, papers and queries to Shane Strange: email Shane.Strange [at] canberra.edu.au