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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Explorations in Creative Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Melbourne University Press , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Looking at Sophie, Kevin Brophy , single work autobiography (p. 7-22)
Literacy: What is It for?, Kevin Brophy , single work essay (p. 23-27)
The Sentence in Time, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 28-34)
Medieval Thinking and the Novelization of the Poem, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 35-45)
Writing, Therapy, and the Office, Kevin Brophy , single work essay
Written accounts about visits to psychiatrists contain impressions of both the therapist and the room in which the sessions take place. 'Accounts of therapy are almost invariably marked by narratives of submissive arrival featuring, in the end, a couch.'
(p. 46-60)
Poetry : What Kind of Behaviour Is That?, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 80-96)
Praise, Blame and Gender: Multiple Divisions in the Body of Poetry, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism
This article focuses on the different ways male and female authors describe women in the poems they write.
(p. 97-110)
I Don't Like the Beast But I Want the Story, Kevin Brophy , single work essay (p. 113-121)
Impromptu: A Writer's Sketchbook, Kevin Brophy , single work prose
A series of short sketches which are in chronological order.
(p. 122-132)
The Swimmer, Kevin Brophy , single work short story

'DAY ONE : The Tulips

They enter the room and its silence enters them. The predictable motel furniture is unnaturally and watchfully still. This is one of several honeymoon suites in the long west wing that faces the sea. There are two plastic-sealed slices of dark fruit cake on a tray with a half-bottle of champagne. She goes across to the vase of tulips courtesy of the management and touches one flower so that it shivers on its stalk. He closes the door and puts the cases down. It is as if the wedding, its dinner, speeches, dancing and drinking, tears and hugs and bad but sweetly affectionate jokes have all sunk into a cold black sea. The two of them might be a couple married for more than half a century and now close at last to the end of it all.'  (Introduction)

(p. 133-141)
Autobiography of a Story, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 142-145)
Blue Tongue (for Sophie Who Said, "You Touched It!")i"On my palm I balance it--", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 146-147)
Yawp! Sounding Local, Sounding Ugly, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 146-153)
Making Poems and Making Poems Work, Kevin Brophy , single work criticism (p. 154-172)
Yellow Dogi"The sun is dully present somewhere low", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 160-161)
At the Anti-Nazi Demonstration (Sophie at Four Years)i"Sophie watches the Neo-Nazis on a platform", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 162-164)
A Small Mistakei"My yoga teacher says that letting go of the ego", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 164-171)
Making Poetry from Prose : The Complicated Case of the Prose Poem, Kevin Brophy , single work column (p. 173-186)
A Poetry Workshop: Description is Feeling, Kevin Brophy , single work column (p. 189-193)
Brunswicki"In my street", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 190-193)
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