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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... vol. 23 no. 2 October 2019 of TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs est. 1997 TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Mercurial Metamorphoses, Dominique Hecq , single work review
— Review of Third Body Marion Campbell , 2018 selected work poetry ;
'Marion May Campbell and Jane Joritz-Nakagawa have more in common than one might think. Both are poet-thinkers who blur the lines between private and public spheres, explore thought as much as feeling, engage with ecosystems, evoke a third body of words through citation or address, and produce an exhilarating sense of ambiguity and uncertainty in their poetry. Both Campbell’s Third body and Joritz-Nakagawa’s Poems: New & Selected display stylistic range, plurivocality and shape-shifting personae.' (From introduction) 
Wound and Wor(l)d : Violence and Optimism in Poetry, Sarah Pearce , single work review
— Review of After Cage Dominique Hecq , 2019 selected work poetry ;

Dominique Hecq’s After Cage is a moving, looping meditation on the possibilities of both language and time. Inspired by her experiences of dance and composition, particularly Stockhausen’s Stimmung, language mirrors physical and musical movement in a series of repeated yet constantly varied threads and whorls. The pages are numberless, challenging our conceptions of what a book should be and encouraging more fluid forms of reading.' (Introduction)
Re-making Memories : The Poetry of Identity, Simon-Peter Telford , single work review
— Review of The Lost Arabs Omar Sakr , 2019 selected work poetry ; Palace of Memory Paul Hetherington , 2019 selected work poetry ;

'How are our identities, our sense of self, constructed? Is it the projection of others that paints who we are, or is it a construction of our own? Is it the labels we assign ourselves, or impose on others? Does it all boil down to memories? Poets Omar Sakr and Paul Hetherington attempt to explore their own memories, thoughts, labels, and identities in their latest individual releases.' (Introduction)
Explosions in Quiet Rooms, Mags Webster , single work review
— Review of Rendition for Harp and Kalashnikov A. Frances Johnson , 2017 selected work poetry ;

'In her latest, and strikingly titled book of poems, award-winning poet A Frances Johnson presents ‘anti-pastoral, anti-war poems’, and produces a body of work which ‘puns on the idea of a song lyric, translation, surrender and also torture’ (Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018).' (Introduction) 
Committed to Memory, Cassandra Atherton , single work review
— Review of Autobiochemistry Tricia Dearborn , 2019 selected work poetry ; Keeper of the Ritual Shey Marque , 2019 selected work poetry ;
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