Molly Murn Molly Murn i(A120286 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Body as Threshold in the Poetry of Andy Jackson Molly Murn , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 63-66)

'The poetry of Andy Jackson not only inhabits and is rooted in the liminal space of the body, but is used as a site to consider selfhood, subjectivity, language, form, and bodily difference. Using poetry as a generative practice, Jackson expresses the unsettledness of being in his own body. Jackson has the hereditary genetic disorder, Marfan Syndrome, where the body is unable to correctly produce the protein fibrillin-1, which in turn affects the connective tissue, the heart, the spine, and the joints. On his blog, Among the Regulars, Jackson describes his body of work as ‘poetry, from a body shaped like a question mark’.1 A pronounced spinal curvature means that Jackson inhabits his body in a particular way, and in turn marks his use of language in a particular way. He is explicit about this: ‘I would argue that to begin to unravel how the body is implicated in poetry will illuminate and liberate both’.2 In rewriting the language of the body, Jackson engages in a poetics of the threshold — the threshold being the nexus between selfhood, subjectivity, and the body, both the individual body and the collective body. He does this by renovating form (language) and by interrogating (his own) disability.' (Introduction)

1 Glisk i "listening to Easter (Patti Smith) & knowing", Molly Murn , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 1 y separately published work icon Heart of the Grass Tree Molly Murn , Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2019 15407422 2019 single work novel

'Pearl remembers Nell’s feet stretched towards the campfires on the beach, her fourth toe curled in and nestled against the middle toe like a small prawn. They all have a curled fourth toe – Diana, Lucy, Pearl.

'When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family – mother Diana, sister Lucy – return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and farewell her. Each of them knew Nell intimately but differently, and each woman must reckon with Nell’s passing in her own way. But Nell had secrets, too, and as Pearl, Diana and Lucy interrogate their feelings about the island, Pearl starts to pull together the scraps Nell left behind – her stories, poems, paintings – and unearths a connection to the island’s early history, of the early European sealers and their first contact with the Ngarrindjeri people.

'As the three women are in grief pulled apart from each other, Pearl’s deepening connection to their history, the island’s history, grounds her, and will ultimately bring the women back to each other.

'Heart of the Grass Tree is an exquisite, searing and hope-filled debut about mothers and daughters and family stories, about country and its living history.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Writing on Thresholds : Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Inside My Mother Molly Murn , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 24/25 2018; (p. 337-351)

'This paper considers the aesthetic and material concepts of the threshold as they figure in contemporary Australian poetry, and examines how the threshold can be a productive and generative space in Australian poetics. The metaphor of the threshold as a point of entry or beginning, place of transition, place of exit, rite of passage, or liminal space, speaks to the writer’s imagination as a location of potent creative power. It is here, on the threshold, that a writer gestates ideas, follows the call of the initial creative impulse, and brings her words forth to be shaped. During this (w)rite of passage something new is made. For a writer, being on the threshold is at once a place where she can thresh out ideas (receptive), and the site of creative acts (generative).' (Publication abstract)

1 Review : Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 Molly Murn , 2016 single work
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 8 no. 2 2016;

— Review of Writing Australian Unsettlement : Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 Michael Farrell , 2015 single work criticism
1 Dedications and Illuminations : The Life Work of Syd Harrex Melinda Graefe , Molly Murn , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , December 2016;

Dedication: Dedicated to Jane and Jaime,and to the friends and colleagues around the world who worked with Syd Harrex to establish the CRNLE

1 The Old Man and the Poem i "I see you in your little boat, awash with blue,", Molly Murn , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
1 'No Man Is an Island' : Crossing Thresholds – Journeying with the Recent Poetry of Syd Harrex Molly Murn , Melinda Graefe , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asiatic , June vol. 9 no. 1 2015; (p. 22-30) Transnational Literature , December 2016;
1 Holes in the Skein Molly Murn , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012;
1 1 Find Me a Garden i "I find in you the space to turn and swing,", Molly Murn , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland Emerging Poets Series
1 3 y separately published work icon Five Seasons S. C. Harrex , Molly Murn (editor), Melinda Graefe (editor), Bedford Park : Table One , 2011 Z1862617 2011 selected work poetry
1 Milk Teeth i "I collect your milk teeth", Molly Murn , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sorcerers and Soothsayers : Friendly Street Poets 35 2011; (p. 85)
1 The Thorn and the Petal (A Ghazal) i "In the quiver and the sigh of us,", Molly Murn , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 3 no. 1 2010;
1 Adha Chandrasana i "in yoga class a candle burns", Molly Murn , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Poetry Reader : Thirty-Three : Catch Fire 2009; (p. 83)
1 New Moon i "the sound of your hand", Molly Murn , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Poetry Reader : Thirty-Three : Catch Fire 2009; (p. 82)
1 After Life i "tonight the lilies in our garden", Molly Murn , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Poetry Reader : Thirty-Three : Catch Fire 2009; (p. 81)
1 Lubra Creek, Kangaroo Island i "there is nothing that says you were here,", Molly Murn , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Thirty-Two : Rewired : 2008; (p. 13)
1 Interlude Molly Murn , 2002 single work short story travel
— Appears in: Slippery When Wet , no. 1 2002; (p. 37-42)
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