Dennis Haskell

Australian Poet and Literary Scholar

News & Events

Workshop on Poetic Form

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As part of the Perth Poetry Festival Dennis will be giving a workshop with fellow poet Annamaria Weldon.

It will be from 11.30am-1.00pm, Saturday 19 September in the Queens Building (level 1, 57 William St, Perth City): Poetic Form: What is it and What’s it to You?


The history of English language poetry has seen a gradual loosening of formal poetic requirements. This was given such momentum by the Modernist revolution that most contemporary poetry is written in free verse, and there is a strong contemporary movement promoting prose poetry. This may make it seem that contemporary poetry has no formal requirements at all but that is simply not true. All poetry has elements of form that don’t apply to prose, and different forms will suit different poems, according to subject matter, tone and authorial stance.

This workshop will discuss contemporary poetic form, the reasons for the shift from traditional stanza and rhyme, and the formal elements that best suit draft poems submitted by participants. 


Also as part of the Festival Dennis will be reading from his latest book as part of the Voicebox reading: 2pm on Sunday 27 September, again in the Queens Building.

Launch of And Yet

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Dennis is attending Government House Lesser Hall on Thursday 20th of August at 5.30pm to 7pm to launch his new book And Yet …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31/08/2020

The launch was a resounding success.

Please see photos from the event below.

 

 

New poetry collection

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Dennis’s new book of poetry, titled And Yet…, is due to be published in May 2020. The book is divided into four sections, the first a follow up to his previous book, Ahead of Us (2016). Characteristically, the collection includes love poems, elegies, comic poetry, and ekphrastic poems. Some derive from travel to Hong Kong, Malta, Singapore, The Philippines, The Netherlands, and Taiwan. They aspire to a combination of intellect and emotion that appeal to a fulness of being.

Poetry reading, China

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Dennis has been invited to read his poetry in Hangzhou, China from 5-8 April. The visit is prompted by scholars and poets at Zhejiang University translating some of his poems.