Verity Oswin Verity Oswin i(21915968 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 A Reconciled Landscape Review Verity Oswin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Text : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 28 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2022 multi chapter work criticism 'Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s book Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature is based upon her doctoral thesis and examines the role of language in bringing about social change. The author, a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, builds her argument through close textual readings of what she labels “reconciliatory literature” (p. 9).' (Introduction)
1 “Road Closed” : Reading as Resistance in Antifa Poetics Verity Oswin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Text : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 28 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Legibility : An Antifascist Poetics John Kinsella , 2022 multi chapter work criticism 'In the recent NSW floods our local council ran out of “Road Closed” signs. On side roads farmers painted their own on sheets of tin. Only the main highway to town was interpolated with an official yellow sign in the middle of the bitumen. When the waters subsided, no-one took the sign down. On swerving around the barricade every morning I was acutely conscious of breaking a code. I was surprised at how much power the words exerted – in ignoring the sign I transgressed the norms of its legibility. In John Kinsella’s new book Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics, published in the Palgrave series “Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics”, Kinsella employs the term “legibility” to refer to more than just the “readability” of a text. Whether a text is “legible” he argues is contingent upon the reader being versed in the customs, conventions and codes inherent to its creation. His interest is pragmatic – understanding the structures and systems intrinsic to the creation of “signs and inscriptions” of ruling discourses “is pivotal to the ability to resist them” (p. 15).' (Introduction)
1 Coffins Verity Oswin , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anabranch : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 2022;
1 Lavender Stems i "I woke yesterday with a gasp", Verity Oswin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , December vol. 40 no. 4 2021; (p. 8)
1 Writing as Return : Dressing in Translation in the Imperial Space Verity Oswin , 2021 single work essay review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 41-44)
1 Hay i "my mother left", Verity Oswin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 29)
1 War Gown i "My sister accuses me", Verity Oswin , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 29)
1 Grey Matters (Conspiracies of Light) Verity Oswin , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Saltbush Review , no. 1 2021;
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