Criticism
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2023
Collaborative Ekphrastic Project on ‘Word Made Flesh’ by the artist Paul Yore at the Australian Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Writing in the Expanded Field: Touching, Feeling, Writing
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2019
Break / The silent life-giver of worlds
Westerly, 64:2, 2019, 126-128.
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2018
Matri-Liminal Bodies: Oceanic Empathy in Dorothy Porter’s Crete via Anne Carson’s ‘The Anthropology of Water
Inhabitation: Creative Writing with Critical Theory. Ed. Dominique Hecq and Julian Novitz. Gylphi.: Great Britain, 2018. 233 – 253.
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2016
Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten: where verse novel meets verse biography via the polyphonic poetic mask
Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ed. Anna Jackson, Helen Rickerby and Angelina Sbroma. Victoria University Press. 2016. 95-119.
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2015
Minding the Mountain: Special Guest Interview with Dr. Constanza Ceruti
Creative Writing Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Wed 18 Feb, 2015.
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2015
PhD (Melbourne University)
Subjective Renewals: Tropes of the Archaeological Body in the verse novels of Anne Carson and Dorothy Porter & Sonqoqui: a Verse Novel
Melbourne University Library & Visual Communications Library, John Medley Building, Reading Room, University of Melbourne.
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2014
University of Melbourne, Australia.
The Beautiful Truths of Biographical Verse: Palimpsestic Masks and Paper Bodies in Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten
Truth or Beauty: Poetry and Biography, Hosted by Victoria University, Wellington, 2014.
Fire and Ice: the world conceived as subject
Paper given at the 5th Biennial International Conference of the CWWA: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Environments, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 3-5 July, 2014.
Sonqoqui: Excavating Mt. Llullaillaco via a metaphor of weaving
Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being. Ed. Shane Strange, Paul Hetherington and Jen Webb. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014. 53-67.
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2013
Dadirri' and white affect: towards a poetics of listening
New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences. Volume 2 Number 1, 2013. The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Palimpsests and Paper Bodies: towards a poetics of revolt in Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay’ and Dorothy Porter’s Akhenaten.
TRAFFIC, No. 13. 3-29. 2013.
Sonqoqui: Excavating Mt. Llullaillaco
Paper given at the 18th Annual Conference of Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Creative Manoeuvres, University of Canberra, 2013.
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2011
Palimpsests in Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay”
Paper given at the Faculty of Arts Work in Progress Day, Melbourne University, June 2011.
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2010
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2003
‘To show with love much that cannot be spoken of’: Reflections on Gwen Harwood’s Collected Poems: 1943-1995
The New England Review. No.18. 2003. 18-19.