Rosalind McFarlane Rosalind McFarlane i(A150755 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 'The Rain Might Bloom' : Diaspora, Place and Depictions of Water in the Poetry of Bella Li Rosalind McFarlane , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 9 no. 1 2018;

'Bella Li’s writing engages in intertextual ways with philosophy, cartography and writing by other poets and from a diasporic perspective she also engages inventively with Australian literary tropes. Focusing on two poems from Li’s chapbook Maps, Cargo (2013), “Just Then” and “Drowning Dream,” I argue that these poems use intertextual references to enact a form of diasporic place-making through the creation of doubled places. Each of the poems references a poet from the United States of America, John Ashbery for “Just Then” and Anne Sexton for “Drowning Dream,” but each poem also complicates this reference via diasporic citational practices. In the poems this complication, and the act of place-making, is carried out through depictions of water. The doubled properties of water as depicted in these poems are able to offer transformation and reflection, something which allows the doubleness of diasporic place-making to emerge through the intertextuality of the poems. This artistic practice in turn adds a significant diasporic viewpoint to Australian literary criticism about place.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Court Transcriber i "There are ears in your head.", Rosalind McFarlane , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 161)
1 Orientation Booklet i "Volunteer:", Rosalind McFarlane , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 160)
1 Off-Planet i "Sell an every-third-day sunset, buy endearing ocean. Live well—the swell.", Rosalind McFarlane , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 55.0 2016;
1 Dirty Words i "We have managed to ticket", Siobhan Hodge , Rosalind McFarlane , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , vol. 6 no. 1 2016;
1 Palimpsestuous Voices : Difference, Distance, and Collaboration in 'Speaking Geographies' and 'Speedfactory Siobhan Hodge , Rosalind McFarlane , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , vol. 6 no. 1 2016;
'How do multiple poets speak at once, and what purpose can it serve? Poetry collaborations can involve sophisticated layerings of voice and impositions of meaning, depending on the intentions of the poets involved. In this article, a theory of ‘palimpsestuous’ poetic voices will be substantiated in the case of poetry collections where these voices fluctuate and come together to selectively promote certain ideas or issues. Two poetry collaborations—Speedfactory by Bernard Cohen, John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark, and Terri-ann White, and Speaking Geographies, an on-going poetry project by this article’s authors Siobhan Hodge and Rosalind McFarlane—will be examined in detail. In the case of these two collections, environmentalist concerns are particularly highlighted by their engagements with poetic voices. As this article will demonstrate, collaborations offer poets unique opportunities to set up contrasts between the personal and the communal, coming together with great effect to promote or condemn issues or values.' (Publication summary)
1 Crease Marks i "I love the way your letters are porous:", Rosalind McFarlane , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 21)
1 Stu Hatton. Glitching Rosalind McFarlane , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , July no. 29 2015;

— Review of Glitching Stu Hatton , 2014 selected work poetry
1 A "Bay of Whispers" : Seascape in Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiancé Rosalind McFarlane , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 163-173)
'The ocean as a border in Australia has been gaining increasing attention, not only with the arrival of asylum seekers by boat and the relentless government policies to prevent this, but also the connections with Asia that Australia's part of Oceania suggests. Recent scholarship by critics such as Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Suvendrini Perera, and Elizabeth McMahon explore the way representations of oceans can evoke, on the one hand, this doubled sense of insularity and threat, but on the other possibility and connection. Despite the ocean's dominant presence and the way it frames conflict and intimate moments, scholarship on Simone Lazaroo's The Australian Fiance has frequently focused on the way the novel deals with racism in Australia via the Eurasian woman's experience of the White Australia Policy. Here, McFarlane examines the depiction of the sea in Lazaroo's novel as it engages with a kind of insularity with reflection and connective possibility in relation to globalization.' (Publication abstract)
1 Water, Diaspora and Desire : Belonging in Contemporary Asian Australian Poetry Rosalind McFarlane , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 4 no. 2 2014;
'Contemporary Asian Australian poets have recently begun to attract more attention, particularly with the publication of the anthology, edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill, Contemporary Asian Australian Poets. This essay engages with three of these poets: Debbie Lim, Shen and James Stuart, and reads their poems through a diasporic lens. Contrary to scholarship that investigates belonging using the more orthodox ideas of home and land, this reading engages with fluidity and mobility through the depictions of water to better represent the diasporic experience. Further, these poems employ desire and the desiring subject to engage with the way diasporic belonging is figured as contested and contingent. Each of these elements will be explored in the poems in order to investigate the link between diasporic belonging and depictions of water.' (Publication abstract)
1 Rosalind McFarlane Reviews Ephemeral Waters by Kate Middleton Rosalind McFarlane , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2014;

— Review of Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Bring It Out i "Hang a right across these", Rosalind McFarlane , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , December no. 2 2014;
1 Crossing the Real i "Each step is measured", Siobhan Hodge , Rosalind McFarlane , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;
1 Crossing in Real Time i "How should we perform this act of", Rosalind McFarlane , Siobhan Hodge , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;
1 1 Speaking Geographies : Collaboration Over Distance Rosalind McFarlane , Siobhan Hodge , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;
1 Diaspora i "A twice blooming tide in California it", Rosalind McFarlane , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 41 2013;
1 Speaking Geograhies i "To write you", Siobhan Hodge , Rosalind McFarlane , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verge 2013 2013; (p. 12)
1 Place, Palimpsest and the Present Day : Gondwana in Caroline Caddy’s Antarctica Rosalind McFarlane , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;
'Gondwana and palimpsests appear as largely historical entities as, respectively, a continent that existed millions of years ago and a kind of manuscript from ancient to medieval times. Yet, within Caroline Caddy’s 1996 poetry collection Antarctica,1 published after a journey to the continent sponsored by the Antarctic Division in 1992, the two are combined in a way that suggests not only their contemporary relevance but also their ongoing influence. Through her use of place, Caddy layers references to India, Australia and Antarctica in ways that form a palimpsest. This layering acknowledges the connections between India, Australia and Antarctica historically but also insists on their continued contemporary relationship. In this way, the combination of two historical entities, Gondwana and palimpsests, allows Caddy to probe present relationships and engage with our contemporary layered existence.' (Author's introduction)
1 Review Short Ellen Hickman and John Ryan’s ‘Two with Nature’ Rosalind McFarlane , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 42 2013;

— Review of Two With Nature John C. Ryan , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Rosalind McFarlane Reviews Lesley Synge Rosalind McFarlane , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 40.0 2012;

— Review of Mountains Belong to the People Who Love Them : Slow Journeys in South Korea and Eastern Australia Lesley Synge , 2011 selected work poetry essay
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