'The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) research evaluation process includes creative work, including creative writing. This article discusses the effect that writing under the ERA is having on academics in creative writing, including probing the attitudes to ERA that creative writing academics hold. It presents the results of a survey run with writing academics who contributed to an ERA-inspired special issue of TEXT journal, which included questions about writing, and reviewing, creative work under ERA guidelines.' (Author's abstract)

'After readings and discussions of prose poetry from Charles Simic (2008), Lyn Hejinian (1987), Margaret Atwood (194) and Russell Edson (2001), with critical input from Michel Delville (1998) and David Lehman (2003): produce a series of prose poems over thirty days in a continuous sequence—using dreams, chance impressions, reading material of all kinds, random thoughts, overheard phrases and imagined situations, exploiting extension techniques identified in readings and discussions.' (Author's introduction)

'These poems attempt to show that the writing and performance of Australian poetry in English is strained by multiple pathways of dislocation, displacement and dissent.'