Research background
This work pays homage to MacNeill’s ‘wittily ambiguous’ Cigarette, Aunt Charlotte? published in Australia Queer (1996). In ‘writing back’ to this poem, this work addresses literary influence and intertextuality. Illustrating how ‘reading a poem can be a way in to writing a poem’ (Brophy 2009: 93), this research asks how poetic form and content may be entwined to foreground intertextuality as theory and practice.