Emily Stewart
Anders Villani reviews 'Running time' by Emily Stewart and 'Inheritance' by Nellie Le Beau
Anders Villani
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
The lyric subject, literature’s most intimate ‘I’, has vexed critics for centuries. Is it the poet? Is it a fiction, a device? Or is the relation between author and speaker, as Jonathan Culler suggests, ‘indeterminate’, such that ‘any model … that attempts to fix or prescribe that relationship will be inadequate’? Two new award-winning Australian poetry collections offer fine-grained considerations of personhood and the poem’s capacity to represent it.
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Published in
June 2022, no. 443