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Mark Mahemoff (born 13 January 1965) is an Australian poet, critic and psychotherapist. He has published four books of poetry and his work is represented internationally in journals like Prism International ^[1] in Canada, Kavya Bahrati ^[2] in India, Kunapipi ^[3] in Denmark, and Antipodes^[4] in the US. His most recent book is Urban Gleanings.^[5] He regularly reviews books in the areas of poetry and psychotherapy. His creative work has been financially supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.^[6]

Poetry

Mark Mahemoff mainly writes free verse, but also experiments with formal constraints such as englyn, pantoum, sestina, haiku, and found poetry, as well as developing his own new forms. Influenced by the OULIPO movement’s strategies and Georges Perec, he created sestoum, a form incorporating techniques used in the pantoum and sestina. An example is his poem 'Vowel Sounds', in which he avoided using a particular-but-different vowel in each stanza.

Mahemoff’s poetry is chiefly concerned with framing, reimagining and memorialising commonplace moments, primarily in an urban setting. Describing the poems in the second collection (Near-Life Experience),^[7] in the Australian Book Review, Oliver Dennis characterises poems in the second collection "as personal histories, recording everyday experience."^[8] These personal histories include pizza sellers frustrated with their failing businesses, railway workers trapped in repetitive jobs and homeless people relying on random acts of kindness. But the subtext of Mahemoff’s poetry is that a kind of extraordinariness can be found in the ordinary if one takes the time to look. Cath Vidler highlights and acknowledges Mahemoff's abilities as a writer in appropriating work, acknowledging Mahemoff's work to "re-present it in language with all its original potency intact".^[9] Mahemoff’s latest book Urban Gleanings was recently reviewed in The Australian, with author Jane Smith commenting on the unique and vivid descriptions of 'Ali' which characterise Mahemoff's writing style.^[10]

Bibliography

Poetry

Selected Literary Journalism

Interviews

Malcolm Turnbull: A Triumph of Form Over Substance

References

^ "Prism International, Vol 32, No. 4, Summer 1994" (PDF).
^ "Kavya Bahrati, No 8, 1996". Archived from the original on 8 July 2018.
^ "Kunapipi".
^ Mahemoff, Mark (2010). "Considerations on QF4O5". Antipodes. 24 (2): 188. JSTOR 41958695.
^ "Urban Gleanings, Ginninderra Press 2017".
^ "AustLit, Australian Literary Database".
^ Mahemoff, Mark (2002). "Near-life experience". Ginninderra Press.
^ "Australian Book Review" (PDF).
^ "API Review of Books". Archived from the original on 1 December 2005.
^ "'Give or Take a Well-placed Cluster of Words', The Australian".

[1] "Prism International, Vol 32, No. 4, Summer 1994" (PDF).

[2] "Kavya Bahrati, No 8, 1996". Archived from the original on 8 July 2018.

[3] "Kunapipi".

[4] Mahemoff, Mark (2010). "Considerations on QF4O5". Antipodes. 24 (2): 188. JSTOR 41958695.

[5] "Urban Gleanings, Ginninderra Press 2017".

[6] "AustLit, Australian Literary Database".

[7] Mahemoff, Mark (2002). "Near-life experience". Ginninderra Press.

[8] "Australian Book Review" (PDF).

[9] "API Review of Books". Archived from the original on 1 December 2005.

[10] "'Give or Take a Well-placed Cluster of Words', The Australian".

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-'''Mark Mahemoff''' (born 13 January 1965) is an Australian poet, critic and psychotherapist. He has published four books of poetry and his work is represented internationally in journals like ''Prism International'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Prism International, Vol 32, No. 4, Summer 1994|url = https://www.princeton.edu/~prism/issues/Fall2010_final2.pdf}}</ref> in Canada, ''Kunapipi'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Kunapipi|url = http://paperity.org/p/81500711/kunapipi-14-3-1992-full-version}}</ref> in Denmark, and ''Antipodes'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Antipodes Vol 24, No 2, December 2010|url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/41958695}}</ref> in the US. His most recent book is ''Urban Gleanings''<ref>{{Cite web|title = ''Urban Gleanings'', Ginninderra Press 2017|url = http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/1305/%2A+Mark+Mahemoff+%2F+Urban+Gleanings}}</ref>. He regularly reviews books in the areas of poetry and psychotherapy. His creative work has been financially supported by the Literature Board of the Australia Council <ref>{{Cite web|title = AustLit, Australian Literary Database |url = http://austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16788}}</ref>.
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+'''Mark Mahemoff''' (born 13 January 1965) is an Australian poet, critic and psychotherapist. He has published four books of poetry and his work is represented internationally in journals like ''[[Prism International]]'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Prism International, Vol 32, No. 4, Summer 1994|url = https://www.princeton.edu/~prism/issues/Fall2010_final2.pdf}}</ref> in Canada, ''[[Kavya Bahrati]]'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Kavya Bahrati, No 8, 1996|url = https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Nature_by_Mark_Mahemoff.jpg|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708020427/https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Nature_by_Mark_Mahemoff.jpg|archivedate=July 8, 2018}}</ref> in India, ''[[Kunapipi (journal)|Kunapipi]]'' <ref>{{Cite web|title = Kunapipi|url = http://paperity.org/p/81500711/kunapipi-14-3-1992-full-version}}</ref> in Denmark, and ''[[Antipodes (journal)|Antipodes]]''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mahemoff |first1=Mark |title=Considerations on QF4O5 |journal=Antipodes |date=2010 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=188 |jstor=41958695}}</ref> in the US. His most recent book is ''Urban Gleanings''.<ref>{{Cite web|title = ''Urban Gleanings'', Ginninderra Press 2017|url = http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/1305/%2A+Mark+Mahemoff+%2F+Urban+Gleanings}}</ref> He regularly reviews books in the areas of poetry and psychotherapy. His creative work has been financially supported by the Literature Board of the [[Australia Council for the Arts]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = AustLit, Australian Literary Database |url = http://austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16788}}</ref>
 == Poetry ==
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 Mark Mahemoff mainly writes free verse, but also experiments with formal constraints such as [[englyn]], [[pantoum]], [[sestina]], [[haiku]], and [[found poetry]], as well as developing his own new forms. Influenced by the [[OULIPO]] movement’s strategies and [[Georges Perec]], he created sestoum, a form incorporating techniques used in the pantoum and sestina. An example is his poem [http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct02/mahemoff.htm 'Vowel Sounds'], in which he avoided using a particular-but-different vowel in each stanza.
-Describing the poetry in Mahemoff’s second collection ([http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2133500 ''Near-Life Experience'']), in the [http://www.australianbookreview.com.au// ''Australian Book Review''], Oliver Dennis states, “Constructed, in a majority of cases, from the ‘salvaged details’ of life, they operate as personal histories, recording everyday experience and observation in the face of death” <ref>{{Cite web|title = ''Australian Book Review''|url = http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/1360/41-42.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref>. In relation to the same book Sydney poet and reviewer Cath Vidler observes, “In the majority of his poems Mahemoff turns his attention not to scenes expressly divorced from reality, but rather to a variety of direct personal and inter-personal encounters, often writing about such experiences in the first person. Indeed, the apparent autobiographical nature of many of Mahemoff's poems fits well with his special ability to encapsulate experience and re-present it in language with all its original potency intact. He manages to isolate images from the teeming chaos of visual perceptions; images selected for their weight of meaning and suggestion, and then thrust them before us as though they still existed in three dimensions” <ref>{{Cite web|title = ''API Review of Books''|url = http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/52363/20051202-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview4586.html?n=1740271718&issue=39}}</ref>. Reviewing [http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/1305/%2A+Mark+Mahemoff+%2F+Urban+Gleanings 'Urban Gleanings'] in 'The Australian', Jane Smith says of 'Ali', “The grains to be gleaned from this book are the details Mahemoff describes, the “copper-coloured skink” that is “like a thought vanishing”, or “a sedentary man with a whistle/who looks like he’s never done/anything else” <ref>{{Cite web|title = 'Give or Take a Well-placed Cluster of Words', ''The Australian''|url = https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/give-or-take-a-cluster-of-wellplaced-words/news-story/b9e34110817e1f89d7a9c0a6b702c0cb}}</ref>.
+Mahemoff’s poetry is chiefly concerned with framing, reimagining and memorialising commonplace moments, primarily in an urban setting. Describing the poems in the second collection (''Near-Life Experience''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2133500|title=Near-life experience|last1=Mahemoff|first1=Mark|date=2002|publisher=Ginninderra Press}}</ref> in the ''[[Australian Book Review]]'', Oliver Dennis characterises poems in the second collection "as personal histories, recording everyday experience."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/1360/41-42.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=''Australian Book Review''}}</ref> These personal histories include pizza sellers frustrated with their failing businesses, railway workers trapped in repetitive jobs and homeless people relying on random acts of kindness. But the subtext of Mahemoff’s poetry is that a kind of extraordinariness can be found in the ordinary if one takes the time to look. Cath Vidler highlights and acknowledges Mahemoff's abilities as a writer in appropriating work, acknowledging Mahemoff's work to "re-present it in language with all its original potency intact".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview4586.html?n=1740271718&issue=39|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20051201130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/52363/20051202-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview4586.html?n=1740271718&issue=39|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-12-01|title=''API Review of Books''}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Mahemoff’s latest book ''Urban Gleanings'' was recently reviewed in ''[[The Australian]]'', with author Jane Smith commenting on the unique and vivid descriptions of 'Ali' which characterise Mahemoff's writing style.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/give-or-take-a-cluster-of-wellplaced-words/news-story/b9e34110817e1f89d7a9c0a6b702c0cb|title='Give or Take a Well-placed Cluster of Words', ''The Australian''}}</ref>
 == Bibliography ==
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 === Poetry ===
-* [http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/1305/%2A+Mark+Mahemoff+%2F+Urban+Gleanings/ ''URBAN GLEANINGS'', Ginninderra Press, 2017]
+* [http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/1305/%2A+Mark+Mahemoff+%2F+Urban+Gleanings/ ''Urban Gleanings'', Ginninderra Press, 2017]
-* [http://puncherandwattmann.com/books/book/traps-and-sanctuaries/ ''TRAPS AND SANCTUARIES'', Puncher and Wattmann, 2008]
+* [http://puncherandwattmann.com/books/book/traps-and-sanctuaries/ ''Traps And Sanctuaries'', Puncher and Wattmann, 2008]
-* [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2133500 ''NEAR-LIFE EXPERIENCE'', Ginninderra Press, 2002]
+* [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2133500 ''Near-Life Experience'', Ginninderra Press, 2002]
 === Selected Literary Journalism ===
 * [http://apj.australianpoetry.org/latest-writing/review-charles-simic/ Review: ''New and Selected Poems 1962 - 2012'', Charles Simic]
-* [http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24605/20040317-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview31ca.html?n=0702234206&issue=22 Review: ''The Best Australian Poetry 2003'', Martin Duwell and Bronwyn Lea eds, St Lucia, UQP, 2003]
+* [https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040316130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24605/20040317-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview31ca.html?n=0702234206&issue=22 Review: ''The Best Australian Poetry 2003'', Martin Duwell and Bronwyn Lea eds, St Lucia, UQP, 2003]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
-* [http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/52363/20051202-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview61cf.html?n=1741280745&issue=39 Review: ''Fontanelle'', Andrew Lansdown, Five Islands Press, 2004]
+* [https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20051201130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/52363/20051202-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview61cf.html?n=1741280745&issue=39 Review: ''Fontanelle'', Andrew Lansdown, Five Islands Press, 2004]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
 === Interviews ===
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