POETRY READINGS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Coming Up - 2020
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COMING UP:
10 June – Presentation on Hölderlin's Aesthetics, The Formation of Aesthetics in the Long Eighteenth Century (conference), Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden 3 July – Presentation on Hölderlin, Tübingen University, Germany |
2019
20 July – Vagabond Press Launch of new collections by Peter Boyle, Natalie Harkin, LK Holt, introduced by Luke Fischer, Mothership Studios, Marrickville
15 June – Launch of Michael Aiken's poetry collection The little book of sunlight and maggots (UWAP Poetry), to be launched by Luke Fischer, Better Read than Dead, Newtown
1 June – Sounding Trees: Poetry and Music Salon – with Evelyn Araluen, Peter Boyle, Debbie Lim, Luke Fischer, Christina Christensen (cellist), in conjunction with Janet Laurence's exibition 'After Nature', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
9 February 2019 - Speaker at the Launch of Richard James Allen's poetry collection The Short Story of You and I (UWAP Poetry), Better Read than Dead, Newtown
15 June – Launch of Michael Aiken's poetry collection The little book of sunlight and maggots (UWAP Poetry), to be launched by Luke Fischer, Better Read than Dead, Newtown
1 June – Sounding Trees: Poetry and Music Salon – with Evelyn Araluen, Peter Boyle, Debbie Lim, Luke Fischer, Christina Christensen (cellist), in conjunction with Janet Laurence's exibition 'After Nature', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
9 February 2019 - Speaker at the Launch of Richard James Allen's poetry collection The Short Story of You and I (UWAP Poetry), Better Read than Dead, Newtown
2018
21 November - Presentation of 'Hölderlin's Philosophical Poetics: From "Aesthetic Letters" to the New Mythology', Annual ASCP Conference, Western Sydney University
4 November - Poetry and Music Salon as part of the PhiloMusica Concert Series in Kendall, NSW - Luke Fischer (poetry), Goetz Richter (violin), Jeanell Carrigan (piano), and Andrew London (French horn) more details...
24 October - Presentation of 'Poetics of the Absolute: From Schiller to Hölderlin and Coleridge', Department of English Seminar Series, University of Sydney more details...
16 September - Talk, Poetry Reading and Piano Recital (pianist, Ryan Senger), Chicago
15 September - Writing Workshop, Poetry Reading and Piano Recital (pianist, Ryan Senger), Wheaton, IL, USA
13 September - Presentation of 'Poetry, Metamorphosis, and the Evolution of Consciousness', Wheaton, IL, USA
12 September - Reading and discussion of A Personal History of Vision, The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago
26 March - Presentation of 'Aesthetic Education and the Expanded Work of Art: Schiller, Beuys, Turpin + Crawford' at 'Collaborating with Nature: The Environmental Public art of Turpin + Crawford', University of Sydney
4 November - Poetry and Music Salon as part of the PhiloMusica Concert Series in Kendall, NSW - Luke Fischer (poetry), Goetz Richter (violin), Jeanell Carrigan (piano), and Andrew London (French horn) more details...
24 October - Presentation of 'Poetics of the Absolute: From Schiller to Hölderlin and Coleridge', Department of English Seminar Series, University of Sydney more details...
16 September - Talk, Poetry Reading and Piano Recital (pianist, Ryan Senger), Chicago
15 September - Writing Workshop, Poetry Reading and Piano Recital (pianist, Ryan Senger), Wheaton, IL, USA
13 September - Presentation of 'Poetry, Metamorphosis, and the Evolution of Consciousness', Wheaton, IL, USA
12 September - Reading and discussion of A Personal History of Vision, The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago
26 March - Presentation of 'Aesthetic Education and the Expanded Work of Art: Schiller, Beuys, Turpin + Crawford' at 'Collaborating with Nature: The Environmental Public art of Turpin + Crawford', University of Sydney
2017
5 November - Launch of Sarah Rice's poetry collection Fingertip of the Tongue (UWAP Poetry), launched by Luke Fischer, Gleebooks
30 October - Poetry Reading in Newcastle (Poetry at the Pub)
7 October - 4.30-6 pm - 'The Consolation of Poetry' (Workshop) at the 'Festival of Death and Dying', Sydney more details...17 September - 2.30-4.30 pm - Poetry Reading at Smith's – with Susan Fealy, Luke Fischer, Dominique Hecq, Paul Munden, and Charlotte Guest (host) – at Poetry on the Move Festival, ACT more details...
17 September - 2.30-4.30 pm - Ekphrastic Poetry – with Cassandra Atherton, Tony Barnstone, Susan Fealy, Luke Fischer, Ravi Shankar, Paul Hetherington (chair) – at Poetry on the Move Festival, National Portrait Gallery, ACT more details...
1 September - 5.30-7 pm 'Voicing the Earth: Poetry Reading and Piano Recital' featuring Judith Beveridge, Michelle Cahill, Peter Minter, David Malouf, and Luke Fischer (chair), University of Sydney more details...
1 September - Conference Paper: 'Ecopoetics and the Metaphoricity of Being' at the symposium 'The Nexus of Life: Ecological Crisis and Creative Understanding', convened by Ute Eickelkamp, Luke Fischer, and Harriet Johnson, University of Sydney more details...
26 August - 2-4 pm - Francis Webb celebration and reading at Willoughby Library, Chatswood. MC Toby Davidson will be joined by Michael Griffith, Richard James Allen, Luke Fischer, Michelle Hamadache, Martin Langford, and Mark Reid more details...
2 August - 6 pm - Poetry Event: Jakob Ziguras' The Sepia Carousel: In conversation with Luke Fischer, Gleebooks more details...
18-20 April - Participation in the interdisciplinary workshop 'Placing Spirit, Minding the World: Towards an Intercultural Ethic of Care', Alice Springs, NT
7 April - 7.30 pm - Poetry Reading at Swarthmore College (The Inn at Swarthmore), PA, USA more details...
31 March - Poetry reading with Andrew Motion, Mary Jo Salter, and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA more details...
30 March - Presentation at the conference 'harmonisch entgegengesetzt: Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature', Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA more details...
28 March - 7 pm - 'Poetry Evening with Luke Fischer', Hudson, NY, USA more details...
11 March - 3.30 pm - Launch of Luke Fischer's new poetry collection A Personal History of Vision (UWAP Poetry), including a panel discussion with Peter Boyle, Brook Emery, and Deborah Bird Rose, Gleebooks, Glebe more details
8 March - 7.30 pm - Poetry at the House: Luke Fischer, Owen Bullock, Harry Laing, University House, Australian National University, Canberra more details...
30 October - Poetry Reading in Newcastle (Poetry at the Pub)
7 October - 4.30-6 pm - 'The Consolation of Poetry' (Workshop) at the 'Festival of Death and Dying', Sydney more details...17 September - 2.30-4.30 pm - Poetry Reading at Smith's – with Susan Fealy, Luke Fischer, Dominique Hecq, Paul Munden, and Charlotte Guest (host) – at Poetry on the Move Festival, ACT more details...
17 September - 2.30-4.30 pm - Ekphrastic Poetry – with Cassandra Atherton, Tony Barnstone, Susan Fealy, Luke Fischer, Ravi Shankar, Paul Hetherington (chair) – at Poetry on the Move Festival, National Portrait Gallery, ACT more details...
1 September - 5.30-7 pm 'Voicing the Earth: Poetry Reading and Piano Recital' featuring Judith Beveridge, Michelle Cahill, Peter Minter, David Malouf, and Luke Fischer (chair), University of Sydney more details...
1 September - Conference Paper: 'Ecopoetics and the Metaphoricity of Being' at the symposium 'The Nexus of Life: Ecological Crisis and Creative Understanding', convened by Ute Eickelkamp, Luke Fischer, and Harriet Johnson, University of Sydney more details...
26 August - 2-4 pm - Francis Webb celebration and reading at Willoughby Library, Chatswood. MC Toby Davidson will be joined by Michael Griffith, Richard James Allen, Luke Fischer, Michelle Hamadache, Martin Langford, and Mark Reid more details...
2 August - 6 pm - Poetry Event: Jakob Ziguras' The Sepia Carousel: In conversation with Luke Fischer, Gleebooks more details...
18-20 April - Participation in the interdisciplinary workshop 'Placing Spirit, Minding the World: Towards an Intercultural Ethic of Care', Alice Springs, NT
7 April - 7.30 pm - Poetry Reading at Swarthmore College (The Inn at Swarthmore), PA, USA more details...
31 March - Poetry reading with Andrew Motion, Mary Jo Salter, and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA more details...
30 March - Presentation at the conference 'harmonisch entgegengesetzt: Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature', Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA more details...
28 March - 7 pm - 'Poetry Evening with Luke Fischer', Hudson, NY, USA more details...
11 March - 3.30 pm - Launch of Luke Fischer's new poetry collection A Personal History of Vision (UWAP Poetry), including a panel discussion with Peter Boyle, Brook Emery, and Deborah Bird Rose, Gleebooks, Glebe more details
8 March - 7.30 pm - Poetry at the House: Luke Fischer, Owen Bullock, Harry Laing, University House, Australian National University, Canberra more details...
2016
26 November - 4 pm - Poetry and Music Salon with Luke Fischer at Kendall PhiloMusica, with music performed by Goetz Richter, Jeanell Carrigan and friends more details
16 November - 3 pm - Launch of J. H. Crone's poetry collection Our Lady of the Fence Post, launched by Luke Fischer, Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe more details...
10 September - 2.30 pm - Launch of Brook Emery's new poetry collection have been and are, launched by Luke Fischer, Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
23 September - 6 pm - Launch of Peter Boyle's new book of poems Ghostspeaking, launched by Luke Fischer, including a panel discussion with Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, and Michelle Cahill, Gleebooks more details...
7 August 2016 - Launch of A Patch of Sun: Café Poets Anthology (eds. Philip Porter, Luke Fischer, Kit Kelen), launched by Peter Boyle, Rubino's, Willoughby
17 July 2016 - Reading at Château de Lavigny, Switzerland more details...
23 June 2016 - 7:30 pm - An Evening of Poetry and Music, featuring: Luke Fischer, David Kinloch, Patrick McGuinness, Jakob Ziguras, and pianist Jean-Bernard Marie, Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK
22-23 June 2016 - Conference presentation at The Philosophical Letter, University of Oxford, UK
22 June 2016 - International Poetry Reading, with Douglas Reid Skinner and Jakob Ziguras, The Poetry Café, London more details...
13 June 2016 - Poetry Reading, with Jakob Ziguras, Kraków, Poland more details...
21 May 2016 - Facilitator of 'A Life in Words' at the Sydney Writers' Festival, featuring Geoffrey Lehmann and Kate Lilley more details...
31 March 2016 - Invited Symposium: Modern German Philosophy and Poetry at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, USA
13 February 2016 - 'The Language of Water' - An evening of poetry and discussion at the 'H20 Water Bar' art project by Janet Laurence. Poets and Speakers: Brook Emery, Luke Fischer, Kate Middleton, Peter Minter, Deborah Bird Rose. Paddington Reservoir Gardens, 6-8 pm more details...
16 November - 3 pm - Launch of J. H. Crone's poetry collection Our Lady of the Fence Post, launched by Luke Fischer, Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe more details...
10 September - 2.30 pm - Launch of Brook Emery's new poetry collection have been and are, launched by Luke Fischer, Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
23 September - 6 pm - Launch of Peter Boyle's new book of poems Ghostspeaking, launched by Luke Fischer, including a panel discussion with Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, and Michelle Cahill, Gleebooks more details...
7 August 2016 - Launch of A Patch of Sun: Café Poets Anthology (eds. Philip Porter, Luke Fischer, Kit Kelen), launched by Peter Boyle, Rubino's, Willoughby
17 July 2016 - Reading at Château de Lavigny, Switzerland more details...
23 June 2016 - 7:30 pm - An Evening of Poetry and Music, featuring: Luke Fischer, David Kinloch, Patrick McGuinness, Jakob Ziguras, and pianist Jean-Bernard Marie, Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK
22-23 June 2016 - Conference presentation at The Philosophical Letter, University of Oxford, UK
22 June 2016 - International Poetry Reading, with Douglas Reid Skinner and Jakob Ziguras, The Poetry Café, London more details...
13 June 2016 - Poetry Reading, with Jakob Ziguras, Kraków, Poland more details...
21 May 2016 - Facilitator of 'A Life in Words' at the Sydney Writers' Festival, featuring Geoffrey Lehmann and Kate Lilley more details...
31 March 2016 - Invited Symposium: Modern German Philosophy and Poetry at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, USA
13 February 2016 - 'The Language of Water' - An evening of poetry and discussion at the 'H20 Water Bar' art project by Janet Laurence. Poets and Speakers: Brook Emery, Luke Fischer, Kate Middleton, Peter Minter, Deborah Bird Rose. Paddington Reservoir Gardens, 6-8 pm more details...
2015
12 September 2015 - Poetry reading at the Berlin International Literature Festival (Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin) more details...
18 June 2015 - 'In Dialogue with Rilke: An Evening of Poetry and Philosophy' at the Goethe-Institut, Sydney. The evening will include the launch of The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015) and discussions of philosophy and poetry. Professor Eckart Förster will give the launch speech, Dr Luke Fischer will talk about the book, and distinguished Australian poets––Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Jennifer Harrison and Vivian Smith––will discuss connections between Rilke’s poetry and their own writing more details...
23 May 2015 - Facilitator of the Poetry and Music Salon: Poetry vs Prose at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, featuring Robert Adamson, Stephen Edgar, Melinda Smith, Goetz Richter and Minah Choe more details...
22 May 2015 - Panel Discussion on Rilke at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Lesley Chamberlain, Robert Gray and Peter Morgan (chair) more details...
24 February 2015 - Poetry Reading at The Poets’ Picnic, Blackburn Gardens, Double Bay NSW
18 June 2015 - 'In Dialogue with Rilke: An Evening of Poetry and Philosophy' at the Goethe-Institut, Sydney. The evening will include the launch of The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015) and discussions of philosophy and poetry. Professor Eckart Förster will give the launch speech, Dr Luke Fischer will talk about the book, and distinguished Australian poets––Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Jennifer Harrison and Vivian Smith––will discuss connections between Rilke’s poetry and their own writing more details...
23 May 2015 - Facilitator of the Poetry and Music Salon: Poetry vs Prose at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, featuring Robert Adamson, Stephen Edgar, Melinda Smith, Goetz Richter and Minah Choe more details...
22 May 2015 - Panel Discussion on Rilke at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Lesley Chamberlain, Robert Gray and Peter Morgan (chair) more details...
24 February 2015 - Poetry Reading at The Poets’ Picnic, Blackburn Gardens, Double Bay NSW
2014
5 December 2014 - Presentation at the Transcultural Ecopoetics Symposium (organised by Peter Minter and Stuart Cooke), University of Sydney
20 June 2014 - Poetry Reading at ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
24 May 2014 - Poetry Reading and Discussion - Poetry and Music Salon: Do Poets Tell the Truth? at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Judith Beveridge, John Mateer, Bethan Lillicrap, Christian Lillicrap and Lisa Gorton (chair)
23 May 2014 - Panel Discussion on The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Jakob Ziguras, Berndt Sellheim and Joe Gelonesi (chair)
12 March 2014 - Featured Poet at the North Shore Poetry Project, Willoughby NSW
20 June 2014 - Poetry Reading at ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
24 May 2014 - Poetry Reading and Discussion - Poetry and Music Salon: Do Poets Tell the Truth? at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Judith Beveridge, John Mateer, Bethan Lillicrap, Christian Lillicrap and Lisa Gorton (chair)
23 May 2014 - Panel Discussion on The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Walsh Bay, with Jakob Ziguras, Berndt Sellheim and Joe Gelonesi (chair)
12 March 2014 - Featured Poet at the North Shore Poetry Project, Willoughby NSW
2013
23 November 2013 - Poetry reading and launch of the collection, Paths of Flight (launched by Judith Beveridge), University of Sydney
14 November 2013 - Poetry reading and launch of the collection, Paths of Flight (launched by Jennifer Harrison), North Fitzroy Arms, Melbourne
29 June 2013 - Poetry reading and Panel Discussion at Apoetic: Festival of Innovative Australian Poetry, New South Wales Writers’ Centre
9 April 2013 - Poetry reading at Sappho Books and Café, Glebe NSW
14 November 2013 - Poetry reading and launch of the collection, Paths of Flight (launched by Jennifer Harrison), North Fitzroy Arms, Melbourne
29 June 2013 - Poetry reading and Panel Discussion at Apoetic: Festival of Innovative Australian Poetry, New South Wales Writers’ Centre
9 April 2013 - Poetry reading at Sappho Books and Café, Glebe NSW
2012
17-22 September 2012 - Presentation of “Dichterisch Denken und Fühlen: Eine Phänomenologie der Jahreszeiten [Thinking and Feeling Poetically: A Phenomenology of the Seasons],” Naturphilosophie – Naturkunde – Naturphotographie [Nature Philosophy, Nature Study, Nature Photography], International Colloquium organised by Tübingen University, Samothrace, Greece
31 August–2 September 2012 - Presentation of “Animalising Art: Rilke and Franz Marc” at Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image (ASLEC-ANZ conference), Monash University and RMIT, Melbourne
4-6 July 2012 - Presentation of “The Animal’s Place in the Cosmos: Rilke and Franz Marc” at the Minding Animals Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
31 August–2 September 2012 - Presentation of “Animalising Art: Rilke and Franz Marc” at Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image (ASLEC-ANZ conference), Monash University and RMIT, Melbourne
4-6 July 2012 - Presentation of “The Animal’s Place in the Cosmos: Rilke and Franz Marc” at the Minding Animals Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2011
23-24 October 2011 - Presentation of “Seasons as Atmospheres: Rethinking the Relationship between the Psyche and Nature,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, USA
22-25 September 2011 - Presentation of “Rilke’s Poetic Vision,” Rilke-Foyer at the Meeting of the International Rilke Society, Harvard University and Boston University, USA
22-25 September 2011 - Presentation of “Rilke’s Poetic Vision,” Rilke-Foyer at the Meeting of the International Rilke Society, Harvard University and Boston University, USA
2010
1-2 October 2010 - Presentation of “Owen Barfield and Rudolf Steiner: The Poetic and Hermetic Imagination” at The Legacies of Theosophy: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Creative Imaginary, Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney
24-26 May 2010 - Presentation of “Seasons as ‘Sensible Ideas’: A Phenomenology After Goethe and Merleau-Ponty” at Geo-Aesthetics in the Anthropocene, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salisbury University, USA
24-26 May 2010 - Presentation of “Seasons as ‘Sensible Ideas’: A Phenomenology After Goethe and Merleau-Ponty” at Geo-Aesthetics in the Anthropocene, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salisbury University, USA
2009 and Earlier
2 March 2009 - Presentation of “Sachliches Sagen: Rilke, Cézanne, and Phenomenology,” The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, USA
8-9 November 2008 - Presentation of “Goethe and the Metamorphosis of Nature into Art” at Goethe and the Post-Classical: Literature, Science, Art, and Philosophy 1805-1815, Goethe Society of North America, University of Pittsburgh, USA
20-22 April 2007 - Presentation of “Rilke and the Animal-Other: Rilke’s Implicit Phenomenology of Perception in the Period of the Neue Gedichte,” Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Copenhagen, Denmark
1-2 September 2005 - Presentation of “Phenomenology and Poetry as the Transcendence of Empiricism and Transcendental Subjectivism” at Transcendence and Phenomenology, The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, England
8-9 November 2008 - Presentation of “Goethe and the Metamorphosis of Nature into Art” at Goethe and the Post-Classical: Literature, Science, Art, and Philosophy 1805-1815, Goethe Society of North America, University of Pittsburgh, USA
20-22 April 2007 - Presentation of “Rilke and the Animal-Other: Rilke’s Implicit Phenomenology of Perception in the Period of the Neue Gedichte,” Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Copenhagen, Denmark
1-2 September 2005 - Presentation of “Phenomenology and Poetry as the Transcendence of Empiricism and Transcendental Subjectivism” at Transcendence and Phenomenology, The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, England