John Hawke

1 month ago | australianbookreview.com.au | John Hawke |Arts Highlights

In his brief Foreword to H.D.’s posthumous collection, Hermetic Definition (1974), Yale Professor Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-75) provides an authoritatively crystalline summary of the poet’s life’s work.

Nov 28, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | John Hawke |Arts Highlights

Like its precursor movements in the modernist avant-garde (Futurism, Cubism, Dada), Surrealism was primarily initiated as an innovation in poetry. The central Surrealist activities were the collaborative experiments in automatic writing, influenced by psychologist Pierre Janet’s Psychic Automatism (1889) and, in poetics, by Pierre Reverdy’s theory of the image as ‘the juxtaposition of two more or less distanced realities’.

Nov 7, 2024 | omf.org | John Hawke

Missions Mobilization and Your PastorHave you ever wondered how best to interact with a pastor who just isn’t that excited about global missions? One of our church mobilizers shares some practical advice on missions mobilization. By John HawkeLooking back, I should have seen the warning signs earlier. I was consulting with a medium-sized, four-year-old U.S. church plant that seemed healthy enough on the surface.

Apr 22, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | John Hawke |Arts Highlights

The final poem of this superb collection, ‘The Darkness’, identifies a primal scene. The young protagonist is a nascent poet, watching over the embers of a desert fire in early morning, awaiting the breath of a Pentecostal wind to rekindle the flames. It is a parable which emblematises the difficult task of transformation that is central to poetry itself: the boy contends with ‘fragments / that will not alchemise to song / that yield not / to the metaphrast’.

May 29, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | John Hawke