@misc{3e9b7866f5b245cda7d3bfdfa913726a,
title = "Koel",
abstract = "The poems of the portfolio Koel, comprising nine poems of widely varying length over 80 pages, are research experiments in language. Its innovations in syntax, page space, narrative form and lexical form manifest complex and emergent experiences of the situated body which are not commonly verified in public narrative. In doing so Koel arrives at a unique semiotics of the somatic imaginary, and a unique poetics of place: in the words of the critic Lisa Samuels, they are transcultural poems that “think with the body.” According to Divya Victor, Koel “swells with the drama of symbiotic and parasitic life forms, where bodies intermingle and create each other through the hybridities of migrant identity and transnational belonging.”",
keywords = "Experimental poetics, Place, Subjectivity, Somatic poetry",
author = "Jen Crawford",
note = "This research expands the expressive range through which subject/site relations may be experienced and understood in poetry. Individual poems and poem-excerpts from the collection have been published in numerous international journals, including The Capilano Review (Canada), Shearsman (UK), Jacket2 (US), Mascara Literary Review (Australia), Australian Book Review, Landfall (New Zealand) and Brief (New Zealand). A 16-page chapbook of work from within the manuscript was published by Tinfish Press (Lichen Loves Stone, Kana{\textquoteright}ohe, USA) in 2015, allowing the work to reach US and Pacific audiences. In Landfall Review Online Piet Nieuwland (July 1 2017) reviewed Koel, writing that the collection 'leaves me feeling light and alight, in suspension – a sensation not unlike being carried downhill in an avalanche – but also elated, and curious for more.' In Singapore Review of Books Lim Lee Ching writes that the book manifests 'a poetic ambition that plays out with full rhetorical control and pace' and the 'supreme sense of the self [required] to be able to speak to the implications of the here and now, to think of the fleeting momentariness of experience, from the quotidian to the histrionic, as profoundly suitable topics for poetry'. ",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "29",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780994259684",
publisher = "Cordite Books",
type = "Other",
}