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Special issues: creative works

The Shelters of Imagination: Logos, Franklin Street, St Peters, Marion and The Dreamhouse
June 01, 2024 AEST
The Shelters of Imagination: Logos, Franklin Street, St Peters, Marion and The Dreamhouse
Georgia Rose Phillips

‘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.

The Writer’s Desk: place, subject, object
June 01, 2024 AEST
The Writer’s Desk: place, subject, object
George Haddad

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.

Broken Bodies, Fractured Places
June 01, 2024 AEST
Broken Bodies, Fractured Places
Carly-Jay Metcalfe

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.

Poems
July 31, 2023 AEST
Poems
Kristian Patruno

In these poems Kristian Patruno cofessionally narrates autobiographical events which deal with the issues of extreme drug use, homelessness, and poor socio-economic conditions.

July 31, 2023 AEST
Gutted: Three Poems on Irregular Stomachs
Cath Nichols

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.

July 31, 2023 AEST
13 ways of looking at lockdown
Karen Le Rossignol

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.

Poetic foundations for watery terrain – three poems below Venice
July 31, 2023 AEST
Poetic foundations for watery terrain – three poems below Venice
Paul Venzo

Using the technique of concrete poetry, each poem syncretises hidden elements that speak to the effects of extremity.

Cleft (a short story) and In my father's house (an essay)
June 30, 2022 AEST
Cleft (a short story) and In my father’s house (an essay)
Alison Ravenscroft

“Cleft” – a short story – is concerned with bodily cuts and folds. “In my father’s house” is a companion essay to the story.

Sea city
October 30, 2021 AEST
Sea city
Sally BreenAaron Chapman

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...

Footprints in the sands of time
October 30, 2021 AEST
Footprints in the sands of time
Hanabeth Luke

From the earliest age, I only knew a life with surfing in it...

October 29, 2021 AEST
Poetry Now Creative works
Marion May CampbellAnne M. CarsonWillo DrummondDavid WrightNatalie Rose DyerKate MiddletonChristian BökToby Fitchaj CarruthersDavid McCooeyMeredith WattisonEmilie CollyerAntonia PontJarad BruinstroopElla JefferyJill JonesRebecca JessenMindy Gilljoanne burns

New works from 19 poets

October 28, 2021 AEST
Smashing ourselves to smithereens: Object collection, death, and creative writing as salvation
Ross Watkins

David Malouf (1985) describes the objects children first encounter as symbols of the unknown – we are ‘set loose in a world of things’...