Oceanian Poetic Collaborations

investigates different collaborative dimensions of poetic events across the Oceanian sea of islands. The project combines three integrated project streams: the first sets out to challenge text-based approaches to postcolonial poetry more generally. It studies Pacific Islander poetry by attending to the sonic assemblages it sustains and creates between and across human, yet also more-than-human presences and the material world. The second project stream focusses on the collaborative politics of a new generation of poets who seek new medial forms to combat climate injustice and ongoing patterns of colonisation. The third project stream sets out to build a curated archive of Oceanian video poems.

Oceanian Poetic Collaborations is part of a larger DFG (German Research Foundation)-funded Research Unit (Forschungsgruppe) based at the University of Potsdam, Germany, titled Collaborations: Assemblages, Articulations, Alliances. The Research Unit starts in January 2025, and initially runs for four years. Find out more about the Research Unit, its projects and people, here: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/research-unit-collaborations/