Contents

Editorial
Writing and its intersections

Jeri Kroll
Living on the edge: creative writers in higher education

Stephen Muecke
Public thinking, public feeling: research tools for Creative Writing

Kevin Brophy and Paul Magee
We slowly arrive safely: poetry at home and away

Josie Arnold
The liminal and apophatic voice of the writer in/as autobiography: a subjective academic narrative

Nigel Krauth
The story in my foot: writing and the body

Andrew Melrose
Jesus, Judas, Jimi and John: culture, communication, media and art in delightful chaos

Francesca Rendle-Short
'Loose thinking': writing an eisegesis

Stephanie Green
'The rainbow bridge': writing and teaching in a regional context

Christopher Bowman
Road trip to the past: finding a setting through photography

Susan O'Rourke and Josephine Ellis
Netherlandish Proverbs and Girl with a Pearl Earring: using images to spark creativity in a first year introduction to creative writing module

Donna Lee Brien
Writing to understand ourselves: an organisational history of the Australian Association of Writing Programs 1996-2010

Prose
Michael Wilding
From The prisoner of Mount Warning

Poetry
Stuart Barnes, Hypothermia
C.M. Maling, 2 poems
Cassandra Atherton, Suburban Sappho

Reviews
Hazel Smith and Roger T Dean, Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts
review by Dominique Hecq and Robert Banagan
Jerome de Groot, The Historical Novel
review by Emily Sutherland
Linda Neil, Learning How to Breathe
review by Tessa Chudy
Tom Cho, Look Who's Morphing
review by Alice Robinson
Blast No 10 Poetry and Critical Writing. Spring/Summer 2009
review by Sandra Burr