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This special issue of TEXT seeks to investigate peripheral visions of past, present and future;of figures and forms, fractures and erasures. Inspired by the AAWP’s 2018 annual conference held in Perth, Western Australia, we invited writers and scholars to think deeply and broadly about the purpose and potential of writing of all kinds. Authors were encouraged to tackle, for example, unconventional wisdom, unsettled perspectives, lapsed borders—that which is beyond and outside the accepted or obvious. By this means, we hoped that various worlds, ideas, fictions and verities would emerge, compete, coalesce, fragment and challenge.

During a period of elevated consciousness, when countless voices vie for attention, we believe there is a need for vibrant and rigorous scrutiny of writing’s potential to interrupt, corrupt and disrupt, as well as to rouse, revivify and heal—in other words, for writing that explores and encourages various forms of peripheral vision.

This special issue of TEXT seeks to investigate peripheral visions of past, present and future;of figures and forms, fractures and erasures. Inspired by the AAWP’s 2018 annual conference held in Perth, Western Australia, we invited writers and scholars to think deeply and broadly about the purpose and potential of writing of all kinds. Authors were encouraged to tackle, for example, unconventional wisdom, unsettled perspectives, lapsed borders—that which is beyond and outside the accepted or obvious. By this means, we hoped that various worlds, ideas, fictions and verities would emerge, compete, coalesce, fragment and challenge.

During a period of elevated consciousness, when countless voices vie for attention, we believe there is a need for vibrant and rigorous scrutiny of writing’s potential to interrupt, corrupt and disrupt, as well as to rouse, revivify and heal—in other words, for writing that explores and encourages various forms of peripheral vision.

Special issues: editorial
Introduction
Deborah HunnFfion MurphyCatherine NoskeAnne Surma
Writing from the periphery often comes with an energy born of difference in action, or the negotiation of difference functioning within interrelation.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Peripheral knowledge and feeling: the Perimeters poems
Paul HetheringtonCassandra Atherton
As a way of exploring some of our ‘peripheral’ knowledge through an intuitive creative process, we embarked on a project to write prose poems exploring the idea of perimeters.
This writing is part of the researcher–writer’s postgraduate work using creative nonfiction to tell the stories of those working to conserve the orang-utan in Sarawak.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Advanced diarology: mortification, materiality and meaning-making
Stayci TaylorKim MunroPeta Murray
Drawing on the literature around diary keeping, as well as theories on voice, gender and creative autoethnography, we look diary performing and the public sharing of juvenile shame.
Special issues: creative works
Macbeth of Kelantan
Emily Sun
‘Macbeth of Kelantan’ explores how the value of reading practices are negotiated across fields.