Background
This hybrid poem situates itself in conversation with leading developments in international literary theory.
Contribution
Utopiate contextualises, formalizes, and ironizes arguments made by the British literary theorist Keston Sutherland in a lecture tour of Australia during 2024, about the structural necessity of utopia to Marxist critique. It does so with heightened and concentrated formal play, and thematic reference to epistemically significant developments in mental health and experimental science.
Significance
It's a striking and fiercely original poem-essay prominently published by a respect Australian company.