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View article: TEXT Reviews April 2025
TEXT Reviews April 2025 Open
Jodi Vial reviews Shady Cosgrove’s Flight ; Philip Harvey reviews Kevin Hart’s Lands of Likeness: For a poetics of contemplation and Dark-land: Memoir of a secret childhood ; Amanda Tink reviews Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shyin…
View article: TEXT Reviews October 2023
TEXT Reviews October 2023 Open
James Vicars reviews Antonia Pont’s A Philosophy of Practising; Amelia Walker reviews Owen Bullock’s Pancakes for Neptune and Timothy Mathews’s There and Not Here; Stephanie Green reviews Rosanna E. Licari’s Earlier; Sophie Finlay reviews …
View article: TEXT Reviews April 2021
TEXT Reviews April 2021 Open
Donna Lee Brien, Craig Batty, Elizabeth Ellison, Alison Owens (eds), The Doctoral Experience: Student Stories from the Creative Arts and Humanities , reviewed by Simon-Peter Telford . Sally Breen, Ravi Shankar, Tim Tomlinson (eds), Meridia…
View article: TEXT Reviews April 2020
TEXT Reviews April 2020 Open
Janelle Adsit (ed), Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer’s Craft review by Rachel Hennessy Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World review by JF Vernay Ann M McCulloch and RA Goodrich (e…
View article: TEXT Reviews October 2019
TEXT Reviews October 2019 Open
Reviews pertinent to creative writing studies, including: Eugen Bacon, Writing Speculative Fiction review by Bronwyn Lovell Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley (eds), The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice review by Amelia Walker Craig…
View article: Ready for work: Educating literary professionals in a region
Ready for work: Educating literary professionals in a region Open
This paper is a small case study with a brief description and evaluation of regionally based, largely extracurricular professional writing activities by staff, and the opportunities provided to students in the Writing Program, School of Ar…
View article: TEXT Reviews April 2019
TEXT Reviews April 2019 Open
Reviews of new books relevant to creative writing studies, including: Dominique Hecq and Julian Novitz (eds), Critical Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation review by Simon-Peter Telford Carol Lefevre, The Happiness Glass; Marion May …
View article: Introduction: Writing and researching (in) the regions
Introduction: Writing and researching (in) the regions Open
The special issue of TEXT on writing and researching (in) the regions provides a robust portrait of the ways in which regional Australia is imagined, produced, and negotiated by writers and scholars working in a range of settings broadly u…
View article: Writing and researching (in) the regions
Writing and researching (in) the regions Open
The special issue of TEXT on writing and researching (in) the regions provides a robust portrait of the ways in which regional Australia is imagined, produced, and negotiated by writers and scholars working in a range of settings broadly u…
View article: TEXT reviews October 2018
TEXT reviews October 2018 Open
contributors -poets, scholars and more -'against each other as a means to creating a conversation' (298).When I look for the definition of ululate online, what comes up immediately is this: 'howl or wail as an expression of strong emotion,…
View article: On Writing [expressing a relation to] Dried Plant Specimens
On Writing [expressing a relation to] Dried Plant Specimens Open
This paper discusses an instance of, or an attempt at, interspecies communication, collaboration, or convocation. I am writing dried specimens in the Southern Cross Plant Science Medicinal Plant Herbarium, Southern Cross University, Austra…
View article: TEXT reviews April 2016
TEXT reviews April 2016 Open
Writing as a Text Response Strategy in the Teacher Education Classroom', which theorises and illustrates the use of creative writing tasks to stimulate critical thinking in the analysis of critical material.This approach would, I think, en…
View article: Wood for the trees
Wood for the trees Open
Our paper focuses on the materiality, cultural history and cultural relations of selected artworks in the exhibition Wood for the trees (Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, 10 June – 17 July 2011). The title of the exhibi…
View article: Creative Writing as Research IV Part 1
Creative Writing as Research IV Part 1 Open
This special issue of TEXT responds to the current challenge faced by writers in the academy to identify with greater precision what it is about their work which is genuinely an original contribution to knowledge across the field of creati…
View article: Introduction: Creative Writing as Research IV
Introduction: Creative Writing as Research IV Open
By Nigel Krauth, Donna Lee Brien, Ross Watkins, Anthony Lawrence, Dallas Baker and Moya Costello. Each work in this issue comprises a piece of creative writing and a statement of research background, contribution and significance, as per r…
View article: Fanning hallucinations in Murray Bail's hall of mirrors
Fanning hallucinations in Murray Bail's hall of mirrors Open
Art generates what Elizabeth Grosz (2012) calls, via Deleuze, sensations and intensities. High passion can generate hallucinatory experiences. Hallucinatory experiences are a ghosting resonance, or residual, of the real. Writing itself has…