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Alternative title: Embodied Knowledges
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... vol. 2 no. 1 September 2012 of Axon : Creative Explorations est. 2011 Axon : Creative Explorations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Golden Spaces, Jordan Williams , single work essay
Art, Design and the Domestic : David Traub in Conversation with Jen Webb, David Traub , single work interview
Birds, Perchingi"Because it is bent,", Andrew Lansdown , single work poetry
Absencei"These indentations", Andrew Lansdown , single work poetry
One Plani"I’ll arrive at the monastery with my hair like wind-matted", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry
Alms Round, Sarnathi"I smell figs, pomegranates, apples; onions and spices", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry
The Pasti"Hard to believe I loved Siddhattha once; now I stare", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry
In Rajagahai"Sariputta and Mogallana are talking on the Four", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry
Anguliamali"Angulimala, thug and robber, who once wore", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry
That Grave Pleasure, Antonia Pont , single work criticism
'This paper argues that gravity is often opposed to lightness in a conceptual manoeuvre reminiscent of the binaries of a metaphysics of presence (the latter as interrogated by Derrida; see generally 1997). In this paradigm, lightness operates akin to the ‘origin’ or presence, and is deemed to have been contaminated by the arrival of weight, the latter framed as threat to this (presence)/lightness. The paper challenges this conceptualisation, one that arguably dominates quotidian attitudes to the body and its movement capacities. It proposes instead that gravity can be read ‘deconstructively’—in other words, that lightness and weight emerge from and produce one another, and that weight always already operates, and therefore includes lightness. In order to inhabit this desiring-body (a body affected by gravity), particular framings of the body’s internal structures can permit a harnessing of gravity’s vectors of attraction, enabling what the author terms ‘a rigorous laziness’. The latter would involve both an initial attitude and a practice that eschews vocabularies of ‘force’ and ‘effort’, in favour of a ‘close reading’ of structural veracities, engaging strategically with, rather than against, them, in an approach akin to deconstruction’s reading along with a text. Drawing ekphrastically on the structural suggestiveness of Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic and arborescent lenses, the paper finally contends that both these models are at work in human bodies, and that they operate in mutually generative ways. Taken up, this thinking may extend what the human body can do, and, most importantly, its pleasure in such doings.' (Publication summary)
Acts of Creative Identity : Ten Asian Poets Writing in English, Agnes Lam , Kelly Tse , single work criticism

'Writers realise their creative practice only through the physical loci of their bodies. While writing is a solitary task, unless writers are contented with being lone voices crying in separate wildernesses, they must go beyond their embodied selves into the community. For writers writing from bilingual or multilingual backgrounds, their acts of creative identity usually require them to negotiate between two or more communities. This paper focuses on how Asian poets writing in English identify with their local, ethnic, national and/or international communities in terms of their readership. It draws upon interview excerpts collected during fieldwork to five Asian places (Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and India). Though ten poets from each location were interviewed from October 2009 to November 2010, the paper will only discuss the creative practice of two poets from each place. The data show that there is fluidity in identification with writers finding their own bearings at different loci of a virtual literary terrain where boundaries exist in a somewhat diffuse manner; perhaps it is this very diffusion that allows them to share their embodied poetic knowledge(s) in a distributed manner so that the creativity of the global poetic community exceeds that of each locale and each poet.' (Publication abstract)

An Open Heart and Mind, Jennifer Harrison , Paul Hetherington , single work criticism
'Jennifer Harrison visited the University of Canberra and presented a seminar to students and staff about her creative practice as a poet. Following are edited excerpts from the seminar, which took place on 25 August 2011, and a discussion with Paul Hetherington.' (Publication summary)
Draini"While rain makes the earth aquatic,", Nandi Chinna , single work poetry
Beautiful Weedsi"The beautiful weeds are blazing on Clontarf Hill;", Nandi Chinna , single work poetry
Embodying Three Aspects of My Self through A/R/Tography : A Personal Polyphonous Perspective, Kylie Stevenson , single work criticism
'In this essay I set out to explain my research as an embodied aesthetic experience. In my PhD study, Creative River Journeys—an inquiry into postgraduate education and practice-led research—I have adopted a research methodology called a/r/tography (Irwin & de Cosson 2004). This asks that my researcher identity embody the multiple roles of artist, researcher and teacher. This embodiment is not an abstract adoption of a research methodology, but a deliberate attempt on my part to confront the disparity between these roles in my past practice. I share insights that I have arrived at in relation to these three deeply interrelated aspects of my a/r/tographical self: the artist self—through poetic inquiry (Prendergast, Leggo & Sameshima 2009a); the researcher self—through the River Journey reflective practice; and the teacher self—through, for example, unexpected reciprocal mentorship in the project.' (Publication abstract)
The Common Miraclei"The bookshelves stand like walls around their bed,", Alan Gould , single work poetry
Streetscape, London Circa 1212 A.D.i"In Foster Lane Maud takes her bucket,", Alan Gould , single work poetry
How to Stopi"Can you ask, she asks, what is an imaginary?", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry
My Namei"is borrowed from a saint. A saint is", Rob Reil , single work poetry
Peti"He wanted a parrot, not a pigeon. But pigeons were cheap,", Rob Reil , single work poetry

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