‘In its attention to language, poetry tests the limits of what can be said. In this respect, it seems to approach those emotions or experiences that seem unrepresentable or that would render us inarticulate. In terms of structures of power, poetry is a vehicle of replication but also possible difference in its capacity to ‘tell it slant’, as Emily Dickinson put it. That is, it can enact thinking against foundation.’
Ann Vickery teaches Writing and Literature at Deakin University and is the author of Devious Intimacy (2015) and The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (2013).
Amelia Dale is an Australian poet living in Shanghai and working at SUIBE. Her most recent book Constitution (Inken Publisch) won Mascara Literary Review’s Avant-garde Poetry Award.
