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A Father At 1.5 Metres: Poems Of Pandemic And Fatherhood, Edward J. Leeming
A Father At 1.5 Metres: Poems Of Pandemic And Fatherhood, Edward J. Leeming
Theses : Honours
'A Father at 1.5 Metres: Poems of Pandemic and Fatherhood' is a 36 poem collection with a connecting theme of uncertainty informed by John Keats‟ concept of negative capability. Negative capability, a term introduced by Keats in 1817, suggests that a writer is benefitted by a refusal of the formation of concrete ideas, that being in uncertainty without needlessly chasing after truth allows for a better understanding of the world, and of more perspectives in their writing. The negatively capable writer is more open to possibilities and of exploring new ideas; this allows them to pursue what Keats calls “beauty”, …
Aletheia: The Orphic Ouroboros, Glen Mcknight
Aletheia: The Orphic Ouroboros, Glen Mcknight
Theses : Honours
This thesis shows how The Orphic Hymns function as a katábasis, a descent to the underworld, representing a process of becoming and psychological rebirth. I begin with the Greek concept of sparagmόs, a dismemberment or deconstruction, as a necessary precursor in that it emphasises at once both primordial unity and yet also the incipient tensions within the Orphic initiates on this path to katabasis. The argument herein extends beyond literary explication to consider how the Orphics sought to enact this process in Greek society itself.
The thesis then establishes the connections between the Hymns and the thinking of …
Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Announcing the launch of Glen Phillip's Collected Poetry, 1968-2018
Sprung, John W. Gordon
Sprung, John W. Gordon
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
A poem that that explores the Australian landscape, an environment of despair, and ennui.
Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna
Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Poetry of Roe 8
The occasion for the writing of these poems was activism surrounding the controversial highway known as the Roe 8 extension in the areas of Cockburn and Fremantle in Western Australia. Planned in the 1950s, Roe 8 is contentious for a number of reasons, including extraordinary political deals over funding, undue process regarding environmental reporting, lack of a business case, inadequate noise and traffic modelling, erasure of Indigenous heritage sites, and clearing of the sensitive Beeliar wetlands and Coolbellup banksia woodlands which were designated a Threatened Ecological Community in 2016. During the summer of 2016/2017 contractors started …
Escarpment Spores, Terry Trowbridge
Escarpment Spores, Terry Trowbridge
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
This poem is a reflection on my ecological relationship with the Niagara escarpment, a geographical feature I've lived with for 37 years.
Slater Woodlice, Shaun Salmon
Slater Woodlice, Shaun Salmon
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
A poem.
Creativity And Illness: An Anecdotal Exploration Of A Writing Practice; Coming Undone: A Collection Of Poems & A Thesis As An Anecdotal Exploration Of A Writing Practice, Matthew Patrick Roberts
Creativity And Illness: An Anecdotal Exploration Of A Writing Practice; Coming Undone: A Collection Of Poems & A Thesis As An Anecdotal Exploration Of A Writing Practice, Matthew Patrick Roberts
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis combines both creative and critical writing in an exploration of creativity and illness. When I began my candidature, I started writing a novel but found with the diagnosis of chronic illness I could no longer write narrative and was irresistibly drawn to poetry.
The collection of poems was written during the period immediately following the diagnosis of, and during my subsequently living with, a chronic autoimmune illness, and is an expression of the lived experience of both being ill and being a writer. The poems have been separated into three chronological parts, each reflective of the emotional changes …
Constellations – A Space In Time That’S Filled With Moving, Deanne Leber
Constellations – A Space In Time That’S Filled With Moving, Deanne Leber
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Constellations in the sky have been a source of inspiration, in both science and literature, for aeons. Working within the constraints of the ‘official’ 88 constellations, as devised by the International Astronomical Union, this study involved researching the myths and histories of constellations, and then creating a collection of poems based upon those. Thematic connections between the eight modern constellation “families” or groups of constellations were explored and it is in these groupings that the poems work, to tie together, through experimentations with language, a somewhat cohesive fabric of poetry.
Each constellation consists of three poems. The first is a …
Land Whisperings: Poems And Palimpsests, Glen Phillips
Land Whisperings: Poems And Palimpsests, Glen Phillips
ECU Books
Most of the poems in this book were included in the poetry section of my PhD in Creative Writing in 2006 under the title of “Land Whisperings: a Poetics of Newplace and Birthplace”. A theme of the thesis was ‘palimpsest’ the rendering of a new work over the top of an older one. Some of the poems therefore take skeletal forms from well-known British and Australian poems yet are new poems created upon the old. The poems also evoke my memories and experiences of my homeland, particularly the Wheatbelt of Western Australia but also landscapes of Italy and China in …
Blue-Tongue Lizard & The Energies Of Shadow
Blue-Tongue Lizard & The Energies Of Shadow
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Environmental Writing
Tides And Groundwater Or Poems Of 'The Dear Southwest', Glen Phillips
Tides And Groundwater Or Poems Of 'The Dear Southwest', Glen Phillips
ECU Books
No abstract provided.
Winged Seed Songs: 32 Poems In Musical Forms & Musical Moods, Glen Phillips
Winged Seed Songs: 32 Poems In Musical Forms & Musical Moods, Glen Phillips
ECU Books
Winged Seed Songs is a special selection of my poetry written over the last forty years or so. These poems were inspired in the main by listening to some of the world’s greatest musical works often performed in our remarkable Perth Concert Hall. I have always felt somewhat chastened by the poet’s achievements compared to those of the composer. The immediacy and universality of music’s appeal and its power to instantly induce very physical responses must make the poet envy this art form. I continue to crave the power to induce audience or reader responses as immediate and strong as …
In Search Of Sandhill Cranes, Dee Horne
In Search Of Sandhill Cranes, Dee Horne
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Emails To Manila, Graham Kershaw
Emails To Manila, Graham Kershaw
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Survey At 70˚N, Rachel Mccarthy
Survey At 70˚N, Rachel Mccarthy
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Carp Mountains, Susan Rowland
Carp Mountains, Susan Rowland
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Landscape, Jake Dennis
Landscape, Jake Dennis
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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A Different History, Meg Mooney
A Different History, Meg Mooney
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Fourteen Stations To Southern Cross, Glen Phillips
Fourteen Stations To Southern Cross, Glen Phillips
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
No abstract provided.
Homing : Poetry ; &, An Essay On The Poetic Leap In The Late Work Of R.S. Thomas, Shevaun Cooley
Homing : Poetry ; &, An Essay On The Poetic Leap In The Late Work Of R.S. Thomas, Shevaun Cooley
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Homing, as a collection, speaks to the capacity and yearning to navigate our way towards something we might call home. In animal behaviour, this seems like an instinct, hard-wired to the body. It is something I envy. By comparison, the instinct, in human behaviour, feels muffled and complicated.
These poems move between two places in which I feel ‘at home’, whatever that means: the south-west of Western Australia, where I was born and raised, and the north-west of Wales, where I lived for a time, and find myself returning to, drawn not by blood, but by longing, and a deep …
Who Is It That Writes? Poetry And The Plural Self, Christopher Karl Konrad
Who Is It That Writes? Poetry And The Plural Self, Christopher Karl Konrad
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
‘Who is it that writes?’ is the central question of this thesis, which consists of a creative and a critical component. The creative work “Letters to Mark” is an attempt to address the questions, as similarly formulated by the poet Fernando Pessoa; who, really, am I? How many am I and, who is it that writes? It is a profoundly personal work, the origins of which reach back to my earliest days when I was first arrested by Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. I have always wanted to ‘answer’ Zarathustra, that is, respond stylistically and address some of Nietzsche’s key ideas …
Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips
Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips
Research outputs pre 2011
The Shanghai Suite was written during a two month period in early 2004 while I was a visiting professor teaching a course in 'Western' Culture' at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. This was also part of the research for my PhD in Creative Writing. During and after those months, I composed most of the poems about Shanghai and that region of China...
Vision And Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond The Death Of God, Ellen J. Greenham
Vision And Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond The Death Of God, Ellen J. Greenham
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The poetry of Jim Morrison, as opposed to his lyric verse, has been the subject of little critical examination. The aim of this paper is to open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. Through the use of the Greek myth of Oedipus in its entirety, as opposed to the two most universally known events of the adult Oedipus' life, discussion here will attempt to demonstrate that Morrison developed a cohesive, holistic vision of the human condition of existence in the world, and presented a …
Rome: A Poem In Three Parts, Andrew Taylor
Rome: A Poem In Three Parts, Andrew Taylor
Research outputs pre 2011
This poem was written during a six month period, in 2004 and early 2005, as Writer in Residence at the EB Whiting Library in Rome, and in Perth during the weeks preparatory to going to Italy.
Paper Boat, Chao
Who Thought Birds Sang, Brian Lever
Who Thought Birds Sang, Brian Lever
Research outputs pre 2011
This is the first publication of poetry written by students at the College. A majority of the poems were produced by members of an elective group who at times wrote on similar topics. Some of the poems in this category have overtones of the 'set piece', although the approaches employed are quite different. Fortunately, this reservation applies to very few of the poems selected for inclusion by the group...