Our April 2023 edition of TEXT features news scholarly work on metaphors for doctoral research, story cycles, writing the abyss, and writing through and out of the pandemic. Our scholarly article authors include Christine Howe and Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis (University of Wollongong), Julian Novitz (Swinburne University), Jenny Hedley (RMIT University), Alex Vickery Howe, Lisa Harper Campbell and Sean Williams (Flinders University) and Robyn Glade-Wright and Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Creative works in this edition include new writing by BN Oakman, Sharon Kernot, Susan Presto and Saurabh Anand, while our reviews section features Jen Webb on Julia Prendergast’s ‘Bloodrust & Other Stories’, Kevin Brophy on Paul Magee’s ‘Suddeness and the Composition of Poetic Thought’, Dominic Symes on Marcelle Freiman’s ‘Spirit Level’, Julia Fazzari on Marion May Campbell’s ‘languish’, and Rosemary Williamson on Ros Petelin’s ‘How Writing Works’.
- Scholarly articlesThis article argues that the short story cycle is ideally suited to capture the everyday experience of the Anthropocene, particularly as it manifests through encounters with climate disaster.
- Scholarly articlesThis creative-critical essay takes a speculative approach to understanding the author's late mother’s literary archives, which are locked in storage overseas.
- Scholarly articlesMetaphors are one tool used by candidates and supervisors to facilitate communication and understanding. In this article, we present a new metaphor: The Moon Diagram.
- Scholarly articlesThis collaborative essay sits at the nexus of creative writing, nature writing and animal studies, and explores living ethically and joyflully in the context of anthropogenic climate change.
- Scholarly articlesWhat happens when an artistic work, pitched as “soft sci-fi”, predicts something both decidedly unpleasurable and, later, alarmingly prophetic?
- ReviewsWe review new works by Julia Prendergast, Paul Magee, Marcelle Freiman, Marion May Campbell and Roslyn Petelin.