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November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

WestWords—David Adès and Peter Boyle in conversation [24th Nov 2022]

More than an hour of poetry and conversation between poets David Adès and Peter Boyle, on Peter’s selected theme— exploring the unknown in life.

DAVID

Peter, with the theme that you’ve selected ‘Exploring the unknown in life’, you’re reading poems today from your last two books ‘Ideas of travel’, and ‘Notes towards the dream book of endings’. Both of those titles suggest to me the notion of exploration.

How do those two books reflect your theme?

PETER

I think both of those books reflect the idea of, or are based around the premise of, trying to write poetry that doesn’t start from what you know but is working its way towards what you don’t yet know. So it’s poetry that’s deliberately not paraphrasable—not exactly storytelling, not obviously related to some kind of theme that you could spell out in advance. So it has that exploratory quality, the sort of openness to the various things that life might unfold that we don’t yet know. So multiple dimensions of reality….

DAVID

You’d be familiar with this, there’s a very old conversation in poetry about whether poets—and probably in literature generally—should write about what they know. I remember as a seventeen-year-old wannabe writer I was told not to write anything until I had something to say. I wrongly didn’t think I had anything to say as a seventeen-year-old and that was possibly the worst advice I’ve ever been given. How much of writing for you is about exploring the unknown?

PETER

Well, I think for me writing has got to be about exploring the unknown in a sense that if it’s something that I could say to someone because I know it already, if it’s—you know—just my opinions about some this, that or the other topic, then to me it just doesn’t have the energy to push me into creative poetry….

 

Peter Boyle

 

 

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Categories

  • 3CR
  • A Chides Alphabet
  • ACT Literary Awards
  • Adamson, Bob
  • Adès, David
  • AI
  • Akers, louise
  • Albiston, Jordie
  • Allan, Alice
  • ALLMUSIC
  • Altman, Dennis
  • Amis, Martin
  • Anderson, Pat
  • Andrejeva, Kaciaryna
  • Anne Elder Award
  • Armantrout, Rae
  • Arnott, Robbie
  • Ashley, Melissa
  • Austin, Susan
  • Australia Institute
  • awards
  • Azimitabr, Mostafa ‘Moz’
  • Bailey, Thomas Forest
  • Baker, Tim
  • Bandesh, Farhad
  • Barnes, Melanie
  • Barton, Alison J.
  • Bell, Johanna
  • Bernstein, Charles
  • Berry, Colin
  • Bignell, Meg
  • Bircumshaw, David
  • Blackman, Andrew
  • Blackwood, Mary
  • Blakers, Rob
  • Bliss, Magenta
  • blog
  • Bolliger, Huni Melissa
  • book launch
  • book quotes
  • books
  • boult, jenny
  • Bowen, Kristy
  • Boyle, Peter
  • Brewster, Anne
  • Bright South
  • Brinklow, Laurie
  • Brophy, Kevin
  • Brown, Bob
  • Brozek, Daniela
  • Bruny Island Bird Festival
  • Burns, Anna
  • Byrne, Daragh
  • Byrne, Mairead
  • Cadden, Anna
  • Calanthe Press
  • Campbell, Marion May
  • Canetti, Elias
  • Carbis, Gayelene
  • Castlemaine Poetry Readings
  • children's books
  • City Park Radio
  • Clifton, Alison
  • climate change
  • Colette
  • Collins, Anne
  • Colville, Jan
  • Conan-Davies, Cally
  • conversations & interviews
  • Corbett, Nancy
  • Cordite Poetry Review
  • Corfiatis, Thérèse
  • Cossins, Jennifer
  • Couani, Anna
  • Cranston, CA
  • Crucefix, Martyn
  • Csik Zenekar
  • Daiza, Eliza Dune
  • DakhaBrakha
  • Davis, Megan
  • Didion, Joan
  • Dimitriadis, Koraly
  • Donlon, Ross
  • Drabble, Margaret
  • Drever, Chris
  • Dulcetly
  • Dumbly, Tug
  • Easton, Carol
  • Eberhard, Adrienne
  • Edmond, Martin
  • Edwards, Rachel
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  • Ell, Theodore
  • Estrada, Silvana
  • Eureka Street
  • Evans, Alison
  • faith
  • festivals
  • fiction
  • Filreis, Al
  • FitzSimons, Peter
  • Five Islands Poetry Prize
  • Five Islands Press
  • Flanagan, Martin
  • Flanagan, Richard
  • Flett, Alison
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  • Gallego, Ruben
  • Garcia-Navarro, Lulu
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  • Laing, Harry
  • Launceston
  • Launceston Poetry Cup
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  • memoir
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  • NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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  • Patterson, Carol
  • Perera, Indrani
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  • poetry
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  • Poetry Pedlars, Launceston
  • Poetry Says (podcast series)
  • poets
  • Poets on the Line
  • Poets' Express, The
  • Price, Jacinta
  • Proctor, Vanessa
  • Pybus, Cassandra
  • Rayner, Tony
  • Reaburn, Norman
  • Red Room Poetry
  • refugees
  • Reid, Harry
  • research
  • reviews
  • Riekki, Ron
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  • Rogers, Lars
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  • Roy, Anuradha
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  • Ryan, Brendan
  • Ryan, Tracy
  • Sakr, Omar
  • Saltbush Review
  • Schindler, Pam
  • science
  • Sculthorpe-Green, Nunami
  • Seasonal Poets
  • self-publishing
  • Sendra, Tim
  • Sharkey, Michael
  • Sheerwater, Henry
  • short stories
  • Simic, Charles
  • Skilbeck-Porter, Ella
  • Skovron, Alex
  • Slade, Tim
  • Small Press Network
  • Smith, Hazel
  • Sometimes, Alicia
  • song
  • Spaulding, Ralph
  • Spineless Wonders
  • Spoken Word, 3CR
  • Stenberg, Britta
  • Strummer, Joe
  • Swain, Helen
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards
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  • Tasmanian Poetry Festival
  • The Richell Prize
  • thinking aloud
  • Thorne, Tim
  • Those Folk & The Inadequates
  • Tinmouth, Valerie
  • Tiny Desk Concert
  • Tokarczuk, Olga
  • Tredennick, Mark
  • Ukraine
  • Uluru Statement from the Heart
  • Uncategorized
  • US politics
  • Vale
  • Van Rijswijk, Philomena
  • Vaughan, Eleanor
  • Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature
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  • Webby, David
  • WestWords
  • Whish-Wilson, David
  • Whish-Wilson, Peter
  • White, Rachel
  • Whitebeach, Terry
  • Wicks, Les
  • wildness (online poetry journal)
  • Williams, Jane
  • Williams, Lucy
  • Winfield, Liz
  • Winton, Tim
  • Witek, Jules
  • Wood, Charlotte
  • Woodside
  • Woomble, Roddy
  • Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Writers' Week, Adelaide Festival
  • Yee, Grace
  • Young, Damon
  • Young, Mark
  • Yukon Blonde
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