Explorations In Creative Writing

By: Kevin Brophy

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Paperback | 27 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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"This set of reflective essays about the writing life examines the poetics and politics of reading as a writer, teaching and learning about writing in an academic or informal setting, and pacing oneself through writing projects. Academic investigations about the medieval concept of the writer and the novelization of the poem accompany more practical discussions about keeping a writer's sketchbook and conducting research. The growth of creative writing programs and the particular role of the artist in Australian society is explored with attention to the challenges facing writers across international and generational boundaries."

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Reading Writing
Looking at Sophie	p. 7
Literacy: what is it for?	p. 23
The sentence in time	p. 28
Medieval thinking and the novelisation of the poem	p. 35
Writing, therapy, and the office at the end of the psyche	p. 46
Night writing: a reading of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'	p. 61
Poetry: what kind of behaviour is that?	p. 80
Praise, blame and gender: multiple divisions in the body of poetry	p. 97
Making Writing
I don't like the Beast but I want the story	p. 113
Impromptu: a writer's sketchbook	p. 122
The swimmer	p. 133
Autobiography of a story	p. 142
Yawp! Sounding local, sounding ugly	p. 146
Making poems and making poems work	p. 154
Making poetry from prose: the complicated case of the prose poem	p. 173
Talking Writing
A poetry workshop: description is feeling	p. 189
Taming the contemporary	p. 194
You can read these	p. 210
Fiction and research: a view from the classroom	p. 214
Before the beginning: introducing a short story	p. 224
The bedroom door, the cathedral, and Islam	p. 227
Works cited	p. 236
Index	p. 243
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