AustLit

'Our April 2023 edition of TEXT features news scholarly work on metaphors for doctoral research, story cycles, writing the abyss, and writing through and out of the pandemic. Our scholarly article authors include Christine Howe and Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis (University of Wollongong), Julian Novitz (Swinburne University), Jenny Hedley (RMIT University), Alex Vickery Howe, Lisa Harper Campbell and Sean Williams (Flinders University) and Robyn Glade-Wright and Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Creative works in this edition include new writing by BN Oakman, Sharon Kernot, Susan Presto and Saurabh Anand, while our reviews section features Jen Webb on Julia Prendergast’s ‘Bloodrust & Other Stories’, Kevin Brophy on Paul Magee’s ‘Suddeness and the Composition of Poetic Thought’, Dominic Symes on Marcelle Freiman’s ‘Spirit Level’, Julia Fazzari on Marion May Campbell’s ‘languish’, and Rosemary Williamson on Ros Petelin’s ‘How Writing Works’.' (Publication summary)