Joan Fleming (poet)

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Megan Joan Fleming (born 1984), is an Australian/New Zealand poet, non-fiction writer and academic.

Biography[edit]

Fleming grew up in Sydney, Australia, until employment opportunities spurred the family to relocate first to Bermuda, then Golden, Colorado, before finally settling in Auckland, New Zealand. She studied creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, where she won the Biggs Poetry Prize[1] in 2007. She graduated from the University of Otago with a Master of Arts with a thesis on the iterative poetry of Anne Carson.[2][3] She holds a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University,[4] Melbourne, a city in which she now lives.

Fleming's grandparents were stationed as Baptist missionaries in the town of Yuendumu,[5] in the Northern Territory of Australia. As a result, she has an ongoing interest in Warlpiri culture, with much of her poetry and non-fiction work focusing on themes of cultural misunderstandings, the limits of language, and the continuing effects of colonialism. More recent work also explores such themes as eco-feminism and ecological collapse.[6]

She has published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.[7]

Awards and honours[edit]

Fleming's honours include the Biggs Poetry Prize,[8] the Verge Prize for Poetry[9] and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers Centre in 2017.[10] In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest award[11][12] for her unpublished manuscript Dirt.

Publications[edit]

Poetry
  • Song of Less (Cordite, 2021)[13]
  • Some People’s Favourites (Desperate Literature, 2019)
  • Failed Love Poems (Victoria UP, 2015)[14]
  • The Same As Yes (Victoria UP, 2011)
  • Two Dreams in Which Things Are Taken (Duets, 2010)
Non-Fiction
  • Dressing for the Apocalypse (Island, 2021[15])
  • Pulling Up the Walls (Verge, Monash UP, 2021)
  • Write First, Apologise Later? (Pantograph Punch, 2020[16])
  • Notes Toward a Theory of Making (Westerly 64.1, 2019)
  • Kardiya as Kindergartner: The Poetics of Ignorance in the Central Desert (Meanjin 78.1, 2019)
  • Seated between the eyes of two worlds: the Intercultural work of Craig San Roque (Philosophy Activism Nature 13, 2018[17])
  • The limits of knowledge: A reflexive reading of Warlpiri poetics (JEASA 9.1, 2018[18])
  • On Misunderstanding, Masquerade, and the Prose Poem (Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand)
Editor
  • Verge 2015 (Monash UP, 2015)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Prize winners | International Institute of Modern Letters | Victoria University of Wellington". www.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  2. ^ "Caves are made of rock but not this cave | Blue Oyster". blueoyster.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  3. ^ Fleming, M. J. (2013). "You can of course keep shaking the box": Errant Versioning and Textual Motion in the Iterations of Anne Carson (Masters thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/4334.
  4. ^ Fleming, Megan Joan (2020-05-18). The Limits of Imaginative Sympathy: Reading and Writing the Incommensurable in Ethnography and Ethnopoetics (thesis thesis). Monash University.
  5. ^ "FLEMING, Pat - 2/03/1915 | Women's Museum of Australia". wmoa.com.au. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  6. ^ Page, Geoff (2022-04-24). "Geoff Page reviews 'Song of Less' by Joan Fleming and 'Blight Street' by Geoff Goodfellow". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  7. ^ "Joan Fleming". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  8. ^ "Prize winners | International Institute of Modern Letters | Victoria University of Wellington". www.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  9. ^ Austlit. "Verge Prize for Poetry | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  10. ^ "Newcastle Poetry Prize". Hunter Writers Centre. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  11. ^ "Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  12. ^ "Australia's richest poetry prize winner announced". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  13. ^ "Introduction to Joan Fleming's Song of Less". Cordite Poetry Review. 2021-11-16. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  14. ^ Cox, Heather (2016-01-28). "Failed Love Makes for Heartbreaking Poetry". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  15. ^ Austlit. "Dressing for the Apocalypse | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  16. ^ Fleming, Joan. "Write First, Apologise Later?". Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  17. ^ "PAN - Philosophy Activism Nature". panjournal.net. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  18. ^ "Volume 9, number 1 (2018) – EASA". Retrieved 2022-06-09.
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