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Marion Campbell Marion Campbell i(A16727 works by) (a.k.a. Marion May Campbell; Marion M. Campbell)
Born: Established: 1948 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Marion May Campbell Reviews I Have Decided To Remain Vertical by Gayelene Carbis Marion Campbell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;

— Review of I Have Decided to Remain Vertical Gayelene Carbis , 2022 selected work poetry

'I Have Decided To Remain Vertical is an exhilarating extension and intensification of some of the major themes of Carbis’s first collection Anecdotal Evidence: her never leaving Carnegie; a family strangely functional in the wake of brokenness, as poesis summons vivid mosaics from the fragments; the devastated heart and the paradoxical sustenance it finds by revisiting the penumbra of relations; the contradiction between word and gesture; the magnetism of the loving body while the erotic body feels cancelled in its relegation to mere companionship, and the fearless probing of domestic anguish in the wake of paternal carelessness.' (Introduction)

1 Marion May Campbell Reviews Rose Hunter and Nellie Le Beau Marion Campbell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;

— Review of Body Shell Girl Rose Hunter , 2022 single work autobiography ; Inheritance Nellie Le Beau , 2021 selected work poetry

'Both these strikingly strong recent poetry publications Body Shell Girl and Inheritance, from Australian poets of feminist inflection, deal at least in part with North American and Canadian experience. While Rose Hunter navigates with a highly effective, raw, and unsentimental diction her often traumatising experience as a sex worker in Toronto and Vancouver, Nellie Le Beau practises an innovative and, at times, a more radically challengingly poetics to send reader perception veering into uncanny encounters with our places in space-time.' (Introduction)

1 A Dialogue Between Dominique Hecq and Marion May Campbell Marion Campbell (interviewer), Dominique Hecq (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Rabbit , 37 2023; (p. 186-189)
1 Dominique Hecq's After Cage Marion Campbell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , 37 2023; (p. 184-185)

— Review of After Cage Dominique Hecq , 2019 selected work poetry
1 Now He Dreams the Sirens Silent Marion Campbell , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: It's All Connected : Feminist Fiction and Poetry 2023;
1 [That Shameful Corolla] i "that shameful corolla", Marion Campbell , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 4 2022;
1 In the Storeroom i "in the storeroom", Marion Campbell , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 4 2022;
1 Hospitality i "the silhouettes troop past", Marion Campbell , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 76-77)
1 Trackless Marion Campbell , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;
1 2 y separately published work icon Languish Marion Campbell , Perth : Upswell Publishing , 2022 24893412 2022 selected work poetry

'This new collection of poems by Marion May Campbell furthers her lifelong interest in form, stretching to breaking point the potential of poetic language. She stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, flamboyantly connecting and wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next it transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory. languish is Campbell’s eleventh book across the forms of fiction, poetry and critical theory. Her writing is always charged by a poetics of feminist contestation.'  (Publication summary)

1 Speechless i "In this drought-struck place rain is stalled", Marion Campbell , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 47 no. 1/2 2021; (p. 199-200)
1 Lesley Stern : Outlaw of Genre Marion Campbell , 2021 single work obituary (for Lesley Stern )
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , May no. 98 2021;

'She charges space, she rakes and ruffles her cropped and bleached hair, her dark eyes narrow as her thought uncoils with the lasso of smoke from her cigarette, and she moves, lean and feline-slinky in her riot of colours, her pendant earrings swinging, her deep voice booming, laughter welling from the depths. We can’t take our eyes off her, this brilliant magnetic being, as she teaches and entertains – and with Lesley one always implies the other. We’re at Murdoch University, back in 1987-8, then a relatively radical institution, fostering cross-fertilisations amongst the disciplines, and Lesley, a film theorist and critic of growing renown, is also on fire creatively.'(Introduction)

1 Anything or the Measure of Meat i "Andy Warhol’s silkscreened guns", Marion Campbell , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Spring no. 3 2021;

Epigraph:

we are not measure 

we are not measure 

of anything 

Alan Loney 

1 Pronouns in the Darker Mirror Marion Campbell , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Spring no. 3 2021;
1 Eurydice and the Frogs Marion Campbell , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Spring no. 3 2021;
1 Passat Marion Campbell , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Winter no. 2 2021;
1 My Nosferatu i "I told her, Well I won’t be surprised by what you see. At any moment there’ll be", Marion Campbell , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 Buzz Cut i "If only these windows were boarded up…. Tell myself, go somewhere else, where", Marion Campbell , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 Brisket i "The freeway’s all lit-up hooks and eyes—pulling the unravelling liquorice", Marion Campbell , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , December no. 2 2021;
1 To Awaken the City from the Dream of Itself Marion Campbell , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 25 no. 2 2021;

— Review of The Archaeology of a Dream City Monica Raszewski , 2021 single work novel
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