Special issues: creative works
‘The Shelters of Imagination’ is a series of five poems which explore the relationship between a writer’s place and the phenomenological aspects of literary composition.
This creative writing research experiments with and examines perception, orientation, and queer phenomenology to suggest that the writer’s place (my desk) is not instrumental to my creative output.
A liminality of place exists between home and hospital, and this creative work contemplates how a multidimensionality of creativity can exist, and indeed thrive, within an institutionalised setting.
I found my primary school difficult because other children often found me... disgusting. For the longest time I had no proper name for my affliction.
The extremities of a state of pandemic lockdown intensify, through physical and emotional constraints, an aesthetic of perceptual experience involving the senses, or sense perception.
Using the technique of concrete poetry, each poem syncretises hidden elements that speak to the effects of extremity.
“Cleft” – a short story – is concerned with bodily cuts and folds. “In my father’s house” is a companion essay to the story.
This is what it feels like, to be in this city full of hot salty breath, full of long languid lines, frayed on the edges...
David Malouf (1985) describes the objects children first encounter as symbols of the unknown – we are ‘set loose in a world of things’...