Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell is the author of Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan). His latest book of poetry is Cocky’s Joy (Giramondo).

Works By Michael Farrell

Thick Pickings
If we consider poetry as being merely contemporary, then maybe we can drop the notion of highbrow altogether, and think about relative (in)formalities – of diction and poetic structure.
28 May. 2023
Inside Pathetic Language
By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title.
20 Nov. 2022
‘If You Don’t Mind My Arsing’
Rather than read representations of land in terms of the politics they support or contest, what happens when we read poems of politics through the entity of the land? I am suggesting that this is (continues to be) the primary way to read Australia...
21 Nov. 2021
Karma Chameleon
Bonny Cassidy’s Chatelaine is a gift to a reviewer that doesn’t want to paraphrase poems, for a reader that doesn’t need such summarising.
28 July. 2021
Rebellious Tropes
Reading and writing are bodies within bodies and rooms within each other. Fitch’s poetry is exemplary in terms of showing us the possibilities – and impossibilities (like reading in a dark room, like being in spaces we aren’t) – of the reading/wri...
10 May. 2020
Uncrushed Local Thought
Lisa Gorton’s new collection Empirical translates the notion of charismatic megafauna, which may be seen alongside more lyrical creatures at the Melbourne Zoo..., into that of charismatic megapoems.
3 Feb. 2020
A Nose For Furphies: Click Here For What We Do by Pam Brown
Pam Brown’s poems are not inimical to close reading, but they do resist it. What they seem to encourage, however, is a new mode of conceptual criticism: one that thinks about the conceptual on the line – and even the word – level (rather than that...
11 Nov. 2018
Laconic Stance Drive: hows its by Nick Whittock
‘There are other Australian poems about cricket, but no one but Nick Whittock has taken it for their major theme. For Whittock, cricket – the matches, the players, the history, and its accompanying discourse: of commentary, commodification (sponso...
5 Feb. 2016

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Michael Farrell

Works By Michael Farrell

Thick Pickings

Inside Pathetic Language

‘If You Don’t Mind My Arsing’

Karma Chameleon

Rebellious Tropes

Uncrushed Local Thought

A Nose For Furphies: Click Here For What We Do by Pam Brown

Laconic Stance Drive: hows its by Nick Whittock

Works Featuring Michael Farrell

The Poetry of As If

The Mischief of Technique in What Michael Farrell Does

Who fries a crumpet? Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell