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Alternative title: Mud Map : Australian Women's Experimental Writing
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... no. 17 17 April 2013 of TEXT Special Issue est. 2000 TEXT Special Issue Website Series
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide, Anna Gibbs , single work criticism
'The project represented by this collection of work was conceived in 2009, by Moya Costello who pushed the other editors to act on our previous discussions, as a 'landmark anthology' of Australian women's experimental writing in the vein of the maps made by collections of the 1970s and 1980s: Mother, I'm rooted (edited by Kate Jennings, 1975) which was the first collection of poetry by Australian women, and F(r)ictions (edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson, 1982)1 . To our dismay, the current state of print publishing in Australia made such an enterprise impossible, as our proposal was rejected everywhere we sent it, mostly it seems because such collections have gone out of favour, at least with publishers. In the face of these refusals, we decided to opt for a journal publication, and this journal, TEXT, the journal of the Association of Australasian Writing Programs, was an obvious choice, since it has a wide - and growing - readership both in (and outside) universities, and, when it comes to experimental writing, teachers are always seeking examples for use in class. Publishing in a journal, however, meant we had to cull all the work which had been previously published, and this means that many writers whose work would otherwise have been part of this collection are not represented here, including some of the major figures in Australian experimental writing (Alexis Wright and Marion May Campbell, to name just two). This collection also has a strong bias towards work from Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, mostly by virtue of the locations and histories of its editors, but also because we had almost no response to our call from elsewhere in Australia. Nor is there the avowedly Aboriginal work we had hoped for: again, our own connections were perhaps one limitation, but it is also likely that these writers have other priorities than experimentation (sovereignty and justice, for example) or anthology projects such as this one. The work included here is not blind refereed, but every piece was read and discussed by all four editors, and editorial work of one sort or another was performed on most of the contributions.' (Author's introduction)
Prove Love, M. T. C. Cronin , sequence poetry
Definitioni"definition is how we fight off dream", M. T. C. Cronin , single work poetry
Imaginationi"the unknown is known;", M. T. C. Cronin , single work poetry
Evidence, M. T. C. Cronin , single work prose
Proof, M. T. C. Cronin , single work prose
What is Evidence of the Imagination?, M. T. C. Cronin , single work prose
Love & Definition, M. T. C. Cronin , single work prose
Collector, Jill Martindale Farrar , single work prose
Corrida : A Five Poem Suite, Joanne Burns , sequence poetry
i. Business as Usuali"it’s war, the meat pie bonus", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
ii. Manifest/eri"the surprise decision on the bumpy road", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
ii. Tough Lovei"it’s the city of optimists", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
iii. Lotionali"portafiled in waterproof snaplock plastic", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
iv. Hilti"the giveaway dead flowers boom:", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
The Architect's Dream, Jo Gardiner , single work prose
Casuali"Landscape as an escalator. Down the down river. The river is not flat.", Loma Bridge , single work poetry
Diptych Tourismsi"in the aeroplane there is no sunlight", Loma Bridge , single work poetry
Body Parts, Carolyn Van Langenberg , single work prose
Supermarket, Jenna Sten , single work prose

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

New Paths through the Literary Terrain Emma Ashmere , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Northerly : The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre Magazine , March-April 2014; (p. 13)
Sydney Launch of Mud Map Mark Roberts , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June no. 8 2013;
Sydney Launch of Mud Map Mark Roberts , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June no. 8 2013;
New Paths through the Literary Terrain Emma Ashmere , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Northerly : The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre Magazine , March-April 2014; (p. 13)
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