Stef Markidis explores Deleuze, dance and the writing life; Jessica White looks at traversing genres, disciplines and institutions as a disabled writer and scholar; Sarai Mannolini-Winwood provides an auto-ethnographic review of Indigenous literature in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia; Katerina Bryant and her co-authors looks at the language of women’s prisons; Julia Jarel discusses verbatim and site-specific playwriting; and Jenny Hedley experiments with ChatGPT as a code-writing assistant for digital poetry.
This issue also includes prose and poetry by Amelia Walker, Ian C Smith, Maureen Alsop, Tom Gurn, Tony Dignan, Emma Derainne, Tara Propper, David Thomas Henry Wright and Md Mujib Ullah.
And in our reviews section, Dominique Hecq reviews The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain (edited by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall & Jen Webb); Amelia Walker reviews Mathelinda Nabugodi’s Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic; Aidan Coleman Reviews Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet, and Verity Oswin reviews John Kinsella’s Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics and Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature.
- Scholarly articlesThis article explores language and narrative in the carceral system, demonstrating how language is used as a tool of control and violence to bolster the prison industrial complex.
- Scholarly articlesIn this essay, the author, using second person, considers the path her deaf body has taken to become a writer and an academic.
- Scholarly articlesThrough practice-based research, this article tracks the methodology of digital poems from ideation to execution and publication, offering exegetical insights and a detailed accounting of the tools and processes used.
- Scholarly articlesThis article extends a Deleuzian account of perspective and organisation through dance, applying methods of movement to creative writing practice to offer an intervention in eating disorder life writing.
- ReviewsWe review new books by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall and Jen Webb (eds.), John Kinsella, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Ada Calhoun, and Adelle Sefton-Rowston.