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Negotiating 'Negative Capability': The Role Of Place In Writing For Two Australian Poets, Lynda Hawryluk
Negotiating 'Negative Capability': The Role Of Place In Writing For Two Australian Poets, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
This paper takes its lead from the poet John Keats’ notion of ‘negative capability’ (1891: 48), exploring some of the key methodologies of representing landscapes in writing, specifically using place to effect the process of ‘… being capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubt, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason …’ (48).
Keats refers to the poet as ‘taking part’ in the life of the poem; and being in the poem. This paper features our own poetry, located in two different landscapes and with its own understanding of place, which captures a sense of connection to rugged and …
The Sleeping Camel Hosts An Indian Summer Squall, Lynda Hawryluk
The Sleeping Camel Hosts An Indian Summer Squall, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
A collaboration of writers and artists led to the writing of a poetic tribute to Peter Indans’ work and subsequently his legacy, in the poem The Sleeping Camel hosts an Indian summer squall. The discussion here has as its’ focus the relationship between writers, artists and the landscapes they explore in their chosen medium.