‘Borders have very little to do with physical boundaries and far more to do with ideational ones. For me, the practice of political thought is very much about understanding ideological coding, about learning how we are constructed as subjects.’
Corey Wakeling was born in the UK and raised in Perth, Western Australia. At twenty-one, he spent a year living in the Tokyo area, working as an assistant teacher. In 2008, he returned to Australia, pursuing graduate studies at the University of Melbourne starting in 2009, receiving a PhD in English and Theatre Studies for a thesis on Samuel Beckett in late 2013. During his years in Melbourne, Corey published two collections, a Vagabond chapbook Gargantuan Terrier, Buggy or Dinghy (2012) and his first-full length collection with Giramondo, Goad Omen (2013), and co-edited an anthology, Outcrop: radical Australian poetry of land with Black Rider Press, also in 2013. His most recent collection of poems is The Alarming Conservatory (Giramondo 2018). He is presently an Associate Professor of English at Kobe College in Japan, where he has worked since 2015. As a critic and theorist, Corey has published in the areas of modern and contemporary literature and modern and contemporary theatre and performance studies. His monograph, Beckett’s Laboratory, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing.
Amelia Dale is a retired poet and the Interviews Editor of Rabbit.
