Special issues: creative works
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This article weaves together women’s stories to find commonality and difference across three nations and three sets of practices to illustrate how women operate as writers, embroiderers, pioneers, and survivors.
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This work of indigenous knowledge is an experience into Country and culture, specifically linked to Gundabooka corroboree place, the Baarka river, Bourke, and to voices coming through 2CUZ-FM outback radio.
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In this short story, the reader is invited to witness the fringe-like experiences of the narrator/protagonist as she strives to piece together a fractured personal history and consolidate her identity.
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“The part removed” retells a family anecdote. In form and content, it explores the tension between the parts of the anecdote shared and the parts intentionally left out.
This work investigates the ethics of engagement with poetry written after mass social trauma (Witness Poetry), and ways of imagining a methodology for compassionate relationship through translation and response poetry.
“Liminal” explores the porousness of limitrophy, gesturing towards the more than human world with specific reference to dogs in relation to language, instinct, genre, gender.
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Eugen Bacon’s “Epistles to Our Mother” is a piece of speculative fiction that is an exemplar of storyworld building and impactful characterisation, blending the “weird” and “fantastic” with startling results.
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Sliding into the borderline space of prose poetry, “Clever” presents as a sublime poetic stream-of-consciousness record concerning the narrator’s Freudian-oriented modes of perception and experience.
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“We are making a boat, love” is a bookish multimodal experiment-in-the-making that works with/into/because Ania Walwicz’s Boat (1989) and as an exemplar of Eades’s écriture matière (2015).
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This creativecritical piece focuses on my relationship with Artaud, a rescue Kelpie I taught to bark, and in particular on transference love which, for Lacan, is predicated upon knowledge.
In this fictocritical short story, Benjamin and a cast of Moroccan characters watch and analyse The Blue Caftan through the lens of a fictional lecture on Moroccan male sexuality.
“Asterism” is a verse letter to friend and poet, John Watson, offering autobiographical reflections on the nature of home and how to be at home in the world.