Niall Lucy (1956-2014) was a Research Fellow with the Australia Research Institute and formerly Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he taught for many years in the Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies programs. John Kinsella is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Jam Tree Gully (2012), for which he won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016). His most recent critical book is Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University.

'A literary work’s originality can be measured by the difficulty we have in characterising it. This work is especially difficult to characterise. While Activist Poetics has been published by a university press, it avoids the usual procedures of a scholarly work: it is intensely subjective; sometimes prolix, sometimes casual in tone; and it can be funny... While Activist Poetics may be ‘unscholarly’ in the traditional sense, not least because it is written from a position of ‘interest’, it is far from anti-intellectual. Indeed, the book has an extraordinary intellectual breadth, with subjects ranging from animal rights and GM crops, to literary theory and local history.'David McCooey, Australian Book Review

• AcknowledgementsMap of Avon ValleyIntroduction: Blood Salt - Niall Lucy1. Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet2. Standing Up to Aggressors3. Why I Am a Pacifist4. Plagues Bioethics5. Refugees Australia6. Wheatbelt Isohalines the Making of Isopleths:The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ Other Subtexts associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems7. Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications8. Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities Anomalies of an Activist Poetics9. Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems10. Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration)11. De-mapping Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries –Mutually Said: Blogging Acting12. Poetry, Justice the Court13. The School of Environmental Poetics Creativity Coda: VisitorsAppendix 1. On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan InterviewsJohn KinsellaAppendix 2. Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella Tracy RyanReferenceIndex

Niall Lucy (1956-2014) was a Research Fellow with the Australia Research Institute and formerly Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he taught for many years in the Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies programs. John Kinsella is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Jam Tree Gully (2012), for which he won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016). His most recent critical book is Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University.

'A literary work’s originality can be measured by the difficulty we have in characterising it. This work is especially difficult to characterise. While Activist Poetics has been published by a university press, it avoids the usual procedures of a scholarly work: it is intensely subjective; sometimes prolix, sometimes casual in tone; and it can be funny... While Activist Poetics may be ‘unscholarly’ in the traditional sense, not least because it is written from a position of ‘interest’, it is far from anti-intellectual. Indeed, the book has an extraordinary intellectual breadth, with subjects ranging from animal rights and GM crops, to literary theory and local history.'David McCooey, Australian Book Review

• AcknowledgementsMap of Avon ValleyIntroduction: Blood Salt - Niall Lucy1. Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet2. Standing Up to Aggressors3. Why I Am a Pacifist4. Plagues Bioethics5. Refugees Australia6. Wheatbelt Isohalines the Making of Isopleths:The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ Other Subtexts associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems7. Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications8. Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities Anomalies of an Activist Poetics9. Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems10. Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration)11. De-mapping Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries –Mutually Said: Blogging Acting12. Poetry, Justice the Court13. The School of Environmental Poetics Creativity Coda: VisitorsAppendix 1. On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan InterviewsJohn KinsellaAppendix 2. Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella Tracy RyanReferenceIndex

Niall Lucy (1956-2014) was a Research Fellow with the Australia Research Institute and formerly Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University, where he taught for many years in the Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies programs. John Kinsella is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Jam Tree Gully (2012), for which he won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016). His most recent critical book is Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University.

'A literary work’s originality can be measured by the difficulty we have in characterising it. This work is especially difficult to characterise. While Activist Poetics has been published by a university press, it avoids the usual procedures of a scholarly work: it is intensely subjective; sometimes prolix, sometimes casual in tone; and it can be funny... While Activist Poetics may be ‘unscholarly’ in the traditional sense, not least because it is written from a position of ‘interest’, it is far from anti-intellectual. Indeed, the book has an extraordinary intellectual breadth, with subjects ranging from animal rights and GM crops, to literary theory and local history.'David McCooey, Australian Book Review

• AcknowledgementsMap of Avon ValleyIntroduction: Blood Salt - Niall Lucy1. Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet2. Standing Up to Aggressors3. Why I Am a Pacifist4. Plagues Bioethics5. Refugees Australia6. Wheatbelt Isohalines the Making of Isopleths:The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ Other Subtexts associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems7. Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications8. Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities Anomalies of an Activist Poetics9. Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems10. Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration)11. De-mapping Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries –Mutually Said: Blogging Acting12. Poetry, Justice the Court13. The School of Environmental Poetics Creativity Coda: VisitorsAppendix 1. On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan InterviewsJohn KinsellaAppendix 2. Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella Tracy RyanReferenceIndex