A G Pettet
A. G. Pettet is an Australian poet, academic and author of experimental literature.
www.agpettet.com
"Adam Pettet is a noted and talented poet as well as being one of the foremost worldwide historians of the Beat Generation.
Australian poets have often seen experimentation alone as making them global, or as cosmopolitanism alone making them experimental, Pettet is aware that one has to be both, on more or less separate axes, and then braid those two tendencies into an articulated whole.
Pettet has not only done this but has crystallized these tendencies into an art that is concise, eloquent, and has the self-belief of a poetry that is not just lyricized discursivity but has a pulse of its own.
Pettet's writing recalls us (as Christopher Brennan might put it) to the source of poetry, in deep feeling and an insistence that the precision of words makes us think in a distinctly poetic but nonetheless cerebral way. Of Pettet's generation, I think David Musgrave and Felicity Plunkett are achieving these effects as well, although Pettet does the job with particular economy and conviction."
- Nicholas Birns (New York University) Author of 'Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead'
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♾ Pettet, A. G. (2015). Improvised Dirges - New and Selected Poems. Brisbane, Qld. Bareknuckle Books
♾ Pettet, A. G. (1996). Melancholys Midnight Wanderings: New Poems, Brisbane QLD. Sabazeos Books
A. G. Pettet's IMPORVISED DIRGES stays in the mind, then returning to its pages, it rewards the reader with more depth and complexity. I loved its startling images and ideas. Pettet has weight, dark humour, and an awareness of the limits of language but also creates movement with the joy of using words to build powerful lines; the poems are shapely and alive with imagination, and packed with reality that goes straight to the mind and the heart. Pettet is a poet to savour and this book will draw people who are looking for powerful poetry to its pages.
- Robert Adamson 5/5/2016
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As editor
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BAREKNUCKLE POET JOURNAL OF LETTERS ISSN 2204-0420 [online]
BAREKNUCKLE POET ANTHOLOGY # 1 (2015) ISSN: 2205–7218 [print/annual]
BAREKNUCKLE POET ANTHOLOGY # 2 (2016) ISSN: 2205–7218 [print/annual]
www.agpettet.com
"Adam Pettet is a noted and talented poet as well as being one of the foremost worldwide historians of the Beat Generation.
Australian poets have often seen experimentation alone as making them global, or as cosmopolitanism alone making them experimental, Pettet is aware that one has to be both, on more or less separate axes, and then braid those two tendencies into an articulated whole.
Pettet has not only done this but has crystallized these tendencies into an art that is concise, eloquent, and has the self-belief of a poetry that is not just lyricized discursivity but has a pulse of its own.
Pettet's writing recalls us (as Christopher Brennan might put it) to the source of poetry, in deep feeling and an insistence that the precision of words makes us think in a distinctly poetic but nonetheless cerebral way. Of Pettet's generation, I think David Musgrave and Felicity Plunkett are achieving these effects as well, although Pettet does the job with particular economy and conviction."
- Nicholas Birns (New York University) Author of 'Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead'
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Author
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♾ Pettet, A. G. (2015). Improvised Dirges - New and Selected Poems. Brisbane, Qld. Bareknuckle Books
♾ Pettet, A. G. (1996). Melancholys Midnight Wanderings: New Poems, Brisbane QLD. Sabazeos Books
A. G. Pettet's IMPORVISED DIRGES stays in the mind, then returning to its pages, it rewards the reader with more depth and complexity. I loved its startling images and ideas. Pettet has weight, dark humour, and an awareness of the limits of language but also creates movement with the joy of using words to build powerful lines; the poems are shapely and alive with imagination, and packed with reality that goes straight to the mind and the heart. Pettet is a poet to savour and this book will draw people who are looking for powerful poetry to its pages.
- Robert Adamson 5/5/2016
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As editor
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BAREKNUCKLE POET JOURNAL OF LETTERS ISSN 2204-0420 [online]
BAREKNUCKLE POET ANTHOLOGY # 1 (2015) ISSN: 2205–7218 [print/annual]
BAREKNUCKLE POET ANTHOLOGY # 2 (2016) ISSN: 2205–7218 [print/annual]
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Work identifier
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/193411407
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Edition identifier
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/211808905
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Adam Pettet's IMPROVISED DIRGES stays in the mind, it rewards the reader with more depth and complexity. I loved its startling images and ideas. Pettet has weight, dark humour, and an awareness of the limits of language but also creates movement with the joy of using words to build powerful lines; the poems are shapely and alive with imagination, and packed with reality that goes straight to the mind and the heart. Pettet is a poet to savour and this book will draw people who are looking for powerful poetry to its pages.
- Robert Adamson 5/5/2016
Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet.
Publisher: BAREKNUCKLE BOOKS.
IMPRINT: Bareknuckle Poets.
ISSN: 2205 – 7218.
STATUS: Published: 01/11/2016.
Copyright: Bareknuckle Books & Contributors.
Language: English.
Extent: 348 pages.
Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback.
Interior Ink: Black & white.
Dimensions: (inches) 6x 9
CONTRIBUTORS: L. Ward Abel, Robert Adamson, Venero Armanno, Melissa Ashley, Lisa Marie Basile, Mandy Beaumont, Sally Breen, MTC Cronin, B. R. Dionysius, Maria C. Dominguez, Martin Edmond, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, Brentley Frazer, Claire Gaskin, Allen Ginsberg, Matt Hetherington, Eleanor Jackson, Anthony Lawrence, Alexandra McCallum, Tim McGabhann, Laura Jean Mckay, Corey Mesler, Reg Mombassa, A. G. Pettet, Mark Pirie, Rufo Quintavalle, Kris Saknussemm, Gary Snyder, David Stavanger, Todd Swift, John Tranter, Joanna C. Valente, Samuel Wagan Watson, Fakie Wilde, Mark Young, Ali Znadi + More
Publications (Print Journals & Periodicals) by A G Pettet
Since our beginnings in 1979 (as The Tasmanian Review), Island’s mission has remained the same: to produce a magazine with a national vision and audience that supports new, emerging and established writers and artists, and to bring works of excellence and variety to the reading public throughout Australia and overseas.
ISSN: 0157-3950
Published: 2000
An entirely new editorial team came on board with issue 18, and an entirely new direction for Going Down Swinging. In probably the most important development since the journal’s founding, issue 18 marked the beginning of the spoken word era. While a one-off CD had been included with #13, it wasn’t until #18 that it was conceived of as a regular part of the journal, ranked as an equally important part of the production. Indeed, for a time, GDS was marketed as ‘spoken word CD with bonus literary anthology’.
Others included are: Fleur Adcock, Gordon Challis, Glenn Colquhoun, Marilyn Duckworth, Riemke Ensing, Michael Harlow, Kevin Ireland, Louis Johnson, Kapka Kassabova, Bob Orr, Vincent O’Sullivan, A G Pettet (Australia), Gus Simonovic, Elizabeth Smither, C K Stead.
'3 Poems From Australia'
Goreme
Wild Dawn
Edge
Summer 2017 Issue
With poems from Luke Allan, Mona Arshi, Jemma Borg, Alan Buckley, Lewis Buxton, Jenna Clake, Rishi Dastidar, Patrick James Errington, Katy Evans-Bush, Renie Leng, Katrina Naomi, A. G. Pettet, Peter Rawlings, Anne Ryland, Laura Scott, Adam Tavel, Julia Webb, Ralf Webb, Grace Wong, Jerrold Yam and Newdigate Prize winner Dominic Hand.
With an essay from Sandeep Parmar, plus Nancy Campbell interviews MacGillivray, and reviews from Mary Jean Chan, Theophilus Kwek, Bernard O’Donoghue and Nathalie Teitler.
As Editor by A G Pettet
Publications (Digital ♾ Notable Online Journals) by A G Pettet
21 is a platform for translators and writers from Europe and beyond.
21 aims to make our favorite contemporary writing available in as many languages as possible.
21 is a joint project of several European institutions and universities.
Publications (Print Anthologies) by A G Pettet
Publisher: Subculture Books (November 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979919460
ISBN-13: 9780979919466
Lost Souls in the Fish Bowl: Short Stories and Poetry is the first anthology by Subculture Books of the collected work from the Ursa Major Poets.
The Ursa Major Poets are a group of writers from around the world who have participated at the Ursa Major Poetry Slam in Big Bear, California at the now defunct Eastside Book Cafe and the poets who contribute their work to the Ursa Major Poetry Blog (http://ursamajorpoetry.wordpress.com/).
This year's featured poets are Danielle Pia and Wyatt Hull. The anthology also includes work by Dea Allen, Judith Amanda, Khadija Anderson, Little Brother, Martyn Clayton, Gordon Ford, Sam France, Mathew Horvitz, Matt Kalinowski, Marc Ladewig, Carol Anne Lapolla, Glen L. Lantz, Shane Lee, Laura Fay Lewis, Rochelle Luer, Aaron J. Marko, Rita Meacham, Colin Nasseri, Adam Pettet, Richard Allen Saare, Cassandra Sears, Jeremy Silas, Jeffrey Dale Starr, Kayleigh Starr, Sean Starr, Christopher Stone, Bogdan Tiganov, Victoria.
Publications (Educational Resource) by A G Pettet
Ellen Van Neerven (QLD)
Adam Pettet (QLD)
Caitlin Maling (WA/NSW)
Matthew Heffernan (NT)
Chloe Wilson (VIC)
Kathryn Hummel (SA)
Red Room Poetry Object 2016 was judged by celebrated poet, Jill Jones.
Red Room Poetry Object is a poetry writing competition inviting young writers and their teachers from across Australia and New Zealand to submit poems about 'talismanic' objects that are special to them. Red Room Poetry Object is open to students in grades 3-10 and their teachers. In 2015, Red Room Poetry Object linked over 160 school communities and published 2560 student and teacher poems.
Papers by A G Pettet
Work identifier
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/193411407
--
Edition identifier
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/211808905
--
Adam Pettet's IMPROVISED DIRGES stays in the mind, it rewards the reader with more depth and complexity. I loved its startling images and ideas. Pettet has weight, dark humour, and an awareness of the limits of language but also creates movement with the joy of using words to build powerful lines; the poems are shapely and alive with imagination, and packed with reality that goes straight to the mind and the heart. Pettet is a poet to savour and this book will draw people who are looking for powerful poetry to its pages.
- Robert Adamson 5/5/2016
Edited by Brentley Frazer & A. G. Pettet.
Publisher: BAREKNUCKLE BOOKS.
IMPRINT: Bareknuckle Poets.
ISSN: 2205 – 7218.
STATUS: Published: 01/11/2016.
Copyright: Bareknuckle Books & Contributors.
Language: English.
Extent: 348 pages.
Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback.
Interior Ink: Black & white.
Dimensions: (inches) 6x 9
CONTRIBUTORS: L. Ward Abel, Robert Adamson, Venero Armanno, Melissa Ashley, Lisa Marie Basile, Mandy Beaumont, Sally Breen, MTC Cronin, B. R. Dionysius, Maria C. Dominguez, Martin Edmond, Michael Farrell, Toby Fitch, Brentley Frazer, Claire Gaskin, Allen Ginsberg, Matt Hetherington, Eleanor Jackson, Anthony Lawrence, Alexandra McCallum, Tim McGabhann, Laura Jean Mckay, Corey Mesler, Reg Mombassa, A. G. Pettet, Mark Pirie, Rufo Quintavalle, Kris Saknussemm, Gary Snyder, David Stavanger, Todd Swift, John Tranter, Joanna C. Valente, Samuel Wagan Watson, Fakie Wilde, Mark Young, Ali Znadi + More
Since our beginnings in 1979 (as The Tasmanian Review), Island’s mission has remained the same: to produce a magazine with a national vision and audience that supports new, emerging and established writers and artists, and to bring works of excellence and variety to the reading public throughout Australia and overseas.
ISSN: 0157-3950
Published: 2000
An entirely new editorial team came on board with issue 18, and an entirely new direction for Going Down Swinging. In probably the most important development since the journal’s founding, issue 18 marked the beginning of the spoken word era. While a one-off CD had been included with #13, it wasn’t until #18 that it was conceived of as a regular part of the journal, ranked as an equally important part of the production. Indeed, for a time, GDS was marketed as ‘spoken word CD with bonus literary anthology’.
Others included are: Fleur Adcock, Gordon Challis, Glenn Colquhoun, Marilyn Duckworth, Riemke Ensing, Michael Harlow, Kevin Ireland, Louis Johnson, Kapka Kassabova, Bob Orr, Vincent O’Sullivan, A G Pettet (Australia), Gus Simonovic, Elizabeth Smither, C K Stead.
'3 Poems From Australia'
Goreme
Wild Dawn
Edge
Summer 2017 Issue
With poems from Luke Allan, Mona Arshi, Jemma Borg, Alan Buckley, Lewis Buxton, Jenna Clake, Rishi Dastidar, Patrick James Errington, Katy Evans-Bush, Renie Leng, Katrina Naomi, A. G. Pettet, Peter Rawlings, Anne Ryland, Laura Scott, Adam Tavel, Julia Webb, Ralf Webb, Grace Wong, Jerrold Yam and Newdigate Prize winner Dominic Hand.
With an essay from Sandeep Parmar, plus Nancy Campbell interviews MacGillivray, and reviews from Mary Jean Chan, Theophilus Kwek, Bernard O’Donoghue and Nathalie Teitler.
21 is a platform for translators and writers from Europe and beyond.
21 aims to make our favorite contemporary writing available in as many languages as possible.
21 is a joint project of several European institutions and universities.
Publisher: Subculture Books (November 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979919460
ISBN-13: 9780979919466
Lost Souls in the Fish Bowl: Short Stories and Poetry is the first anthology by Subculture Books of the collected work from the Ursa Major Poets.
The Ursa Major Poets are a group of writers from around the world who have participated at the Ursa Major Poetry Slam in Big Bear, California at the now defunct Eastside Book Cafe and the poets who contribute their work to the Ursa Major Poetry Blog (http://ursamajorpoetry.wordpress.com/).
This year's featured poets are Danielle Pia and Wyatt Hull. The anthology also includes work by Dea Allen, Judith Amanda, Khadija Anderson, Little Brother, Martyn Clayton, Gordon Ford, Sam France, Mathew Horvitz, Matt Kalinowski, Marc Ladewig, Carol Anne Lapolla, Glen L. Lantz, Shane Lee, Laura Fay Lewis, Rochelle Luer, Aaron J. Marko, Rita Meacham, Colin Nasseri, Adam Pettet, Richard Allen Saare, Cassandra Sears, Jeremy Silas, Jeffrey Dale Starr, Kayleigh Starr, Sean Starr, Christopher Stone, Bogdan Tiganov, Victoria.
Ellen Van Neerven (QLD)
Adam Pettet (QLD)
Caitlin Maling (WA/NSW)
Matthew Heffernan (NT)
Chloe Wilson (VIC)
Kathryn Hummel (SA)
Red Room Poetry Object 2016 was judged by celebrated poet, Jill Jones.
Red Room Poetry Object is a poetry writing competition inviting young writers and their teachers from across Australia and New Zealand to submit poems about 'talismanic' objects that are special to them. Red Room Poetry Object is open to students in grades 3-10 and their teachers. In 2015, Red Room Poetry Object linked over 160 school communities and published 2560 student and teacher poems.