Bio


Luke Fischer is a poet and philosopher based in Sydney, Australia. His various writings focus on interconnections between poetry, philosophy, art, and the environment. Fischer’s books include the poetry collections A Gamble for my Daughter (Vagabond Press, 2022), A Personal History of Vision (UWAP, 2017) and Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the ‘New Poems’ (Bloomsbury, 2015), and the co-edited volumes Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives (SUNY Press, 2021). He guest edited (with Dalia Nassar) a special section of the Goethe Yearbook (2015) on ‘Goethe and Environmentalism’. Fischer holds a PhD from the University of Sydney where he is also an honorary associate of the philosophy department. For more information visit: www.lukefischer.net



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