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Hazel Smith is a poet, performer, new media artist and academic. Her volumes of poetry include The Erotics of Geography, Tinfish Press, 2008 (with accompanying CD Rom), Word Migrants, Giramondo, 2016, Ecliptical, ES-Press, Spineless Wonders, 2022 and Heimlich Unheimlich — a poetry-image collaboration with Sieglinde Karl-Spence —Apothecary Archive, 2024. Her poetry has received extensive academic attention.[1][2][3] [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].

She has published numerous collaborative performance and multimedia works, involving text and text performance, as well as performing and broadcasting her work extensively in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. Two of her multimedia collaborations with Will Luers and Roger Dean have been published in the international Electronic Literature Organisation’s (ELO) Collections 3 and 4. She is a founding member of the sound and multimedia creative ensemble austraLYSIS. In 2018, together with Will Luers and Roger Dean, she was awarded first place in the ELO’s Robert Coover prize for their collaboration, novelling. In 2023 her collaboration with Will Luers and Roger Dean, Dolphins in the Reservoir, was shortlisted for the international New Media Writing Prize run by Bournemouth University, UK. Examples of academic studies on her multimedia works include [13] [14][15] [16] [17]

Hazel is an Emeritus Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University[18]. She is the author of several academic books including Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Liverpool University Press, 2000; The Writing Experiment, Allen and Unwin, 2005 and The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange, Routledge, 2016. With Roger Dean she co-authored Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945, Routledge, 1997 and co-edited Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press, 2009. She is also a co-editor of the creative arts journal of online sound, text and image, soundsRite, based at Western Sydney University. There are numerous handbook, companion and historial suvery book references to her work (e.g. in Cambrige University,Currency, Edinhurgh University, and Oxford University Presses (2003-2024).

Books 

    Poetry

Smith, Hazel. 1986. Threely, Peterborough, Spectacular Diseases Imprint.

Smith, Hazel, Sieglinde Karl and Graham Jones. 1990. TranceFIGUREd Spirit, Sydney/London, Soma Publishing.

Smith, Hazel. 1991. Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-1990, Sydney, Butterfly Books.

Smith, Hazel and Roger Dean. 1992. Poet Without Language, Sydney, Australian Music Centre, 1992. (Score).

Hamilton, Kate, Sieglinde Karl, Ron Nagorcka, Hazel Smith. 1996. Secret Places, Launceston, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. (Publication accompanying installation/collaboration).

Smith, Hazel. 2000. Keys Round Her Tongue: short prose, poetry and performance texts, Soma Publications, Sydney, 2000.

Smith, Hazel. 2008. The Erotics of Geography, poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, Kaneohe, Hawaii (with CD-Rom)

Smith, Hazel. 2016. Word Migrants, Giramondo Publishing, Sydney.

Smith, Hazel. 2022. Ecliptical, ES-Press, Spineless Wonders, Sydney.

Smith, Hazel and Sieglinde Karl-Spence, 2024. Heimlich Unheimlich, Apothecary Archive, Sydney. 

    Academic Research

Smith, Hazel and Dean, Roger T. 1997. Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945, London and New York, Harwood Academic (now available from Routledge). (334 pages).

Smith, Hazel. 2000. Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. (230 pages).

Smith, Hazel. 2005. The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Allen and Unwin, Sydney (288 pages).

Smith, Hazel and Dean, Roger T. 2009. (eds.) Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 278 pages.

Smith, Hazel. 2016. The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange, New York and London, Routledge (202 pages). 

    Discography (text and text-sound works on CD only)

Smith, Hazel. 1994. Poet Without Language, CD, Sydney, Rufus Records, RF005.

Smith, Hazel. 1994. “Simultaneity”, Windows in Time, Tall Poppies, TP039, Sydney.

Smith, Hazel and Dean, Roger. 1996. Nuraghic Echoes, CD, Rufus Records, RF025.

Dean, Roger and Smith, Hazel. 1997. “Lowering The Sky”, sound recording on CD, Andrew Levy and Bob Harrison, (eds.) Crayon: Festschrift for Jackson Mac Low, New York, Crayon. Also recorded on Acouslytic, Tall Poppies Records, TP153, Sydney.

Smith, Hazel and Roger Dean, 2008, “Ubasteyama” in Music of the Spirits, curated by Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman, Wirripang, CD, Wirr 011.

Smith, Hazel, 2024. “Unbalancing” on Dualling, austraLYSIS, Earshift CD, EAR085.

External Links [19] [20]

References

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  1. ^ Wallace, Joy (Summer 1995-6). “In the Game I Make of Sense: the Poetry of Hazel Smith” Southerly, pp. 136-146.
  2. ^ Victoria Hammond, “Voices From Under the Earth: Hazel Smith and Sieglinde Karl”, Island 67, 1996, pp. 123-130.
  3. ^ Barbara Bursill,“The Magic of Contraries: An Interview with Hazel Smith” Colloquy, Issue Two, Autumn 1998, pp. 69-84, https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/colloquy/past-issues/colloquy-issue-two
  4. ^ Kerry Leves, “I still believe in Jeffrey Hunter” : New Poetry, 2001, includes a critical review of Keys Round Her Tongue, Overland, vol. 164, pp.113-115 https://overland.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/164-2001.pdf
  5. ^ Michelle Taylor, “Myth, Parodic, Erotic”, Linq Magazine, vol. 28, n. 2, 2001, pp. 76-77
  6. ^ Sarah Law, “Touch me Here and Here”, Review essay on Smith’s book The Erotics of Geography Stride Magazine, 2008, https://www.stridebooks.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202008/Aug%202008/Hazel%20Smith%20review.htm
  7. ^ Joy Wallace, “Flagging down the flâneuse in Hazel Smith's City Poems” was published in the volume Literature as Translation, Translation as Literature, James Gourley and Christopher Conti (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014, pp.67-80.
  8. ^ Interview with American literary critic HL Hix in Uncoverage: Asking After Recent Poetry, Essay Press EP series, 2016, pp. 326-328 http://www.essaypress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rHixLTSpreads.pdf
  9. ^ Andy Jackson 2019 Staring at the Other: Seeing Defects in Recent Australian Poems, Critical Disability Discourses 9, 1-24 discusses in depth Smith’s poem The Poetics of Discomfort.
  10. ^ Poems from the volume Word Migrants are discussed in Ann Vickery, 2021, “Towards a Hospitable Poetics, Accommodating Dementia through Contemporary Lyric” in J. Wilkinson, C. Atherton & S. Holland-Batt (Eds.) Poetry Now. TEXT Special Issue 64, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.30984
  11. ^ Interview with Anne Brewster in 2022, “A Poem Is Not a Puzzle With a Correct Answer”, Cordite Poetry Review, http://cordite.org.au/interviews/brewster-smith
  12. ^ Jill Jones (2024) “Page Soundings: Around About” TEXT 28/2, 32-40 125266-text-reviews-october-2024.pdf
  13. ^ Sonia Mycak, “Nuraghic Echoes: Echoes of the Self”, Australian Women’s Book Review, Vol.9.1, 1997, pp. 30-31.
  14. ^ Zoe Skoulding wrote a critical analysis of here 1997-8 multimedia collaboration with Roger Dean and Greg White, “The City and the Body” in Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities, Palgrave, 2013, pp. 202-205.
  15. ^ Linda Kouvaras wrote a critical analysis of her collaboration with Roger Dean “Mid-Air Conversations” in Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age, Ashgate, 2013.
  16. ^ “motions” (with Will Luers and Roger Dean) was featured in the Huffington Post, USA (2016) in a review about the new anthology of electronic writing Electronic Literature Collection 3
  17. ^ collaboration novelling with Will Luers and Roger Dean has been discussed in a number of articles including Alessandra Di Tella, 2020, “From Tristano to Novelling and Vice Versa: Notes for a Comparative Medium Orientated Analysis”, Studi Culturali, pp. 205-220, and David Thomas Henry Wright, 2020, “Collaboration and Authority in Electronic Literature”, Text Special Issues, No 59, http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue59/Wright.pdf
  18. ^ https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing-society/people/centre_adjuncts[non-primary source needed]
  19. ^ https://giramondopublishing.com/authors/hazel-smith/[non-primary source needed]
  20. ^ http://www.australysis.com/[non-primary source needed]

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