Christine Howe Christine Howe i(A151669 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Alas, Poor Yorick Christine Howe , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 The Rabbit Christine Howe , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Creative Companionship as We Face the Apocalypse – an Essay in Conversation Shady Cosgrove , Christine Howe , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue , no. 70 2023;

'This essay explores how a commitment to poetic collaboration, with daily writing and reading, changed the ways we perceived and lived our lives, particularly in light of living through the extremity of climate change (characterised by Australian bush fires and floods), and the isolation and stress caused by the pandemic. We explore collaboration, prose poetry and the creative process in the context of extremity, arguing that writerly collaboration can engender hope beyond the page. We discuss these topics in an essay-conversation format, moving back and forth between authors, building/ expanding/thinking and re-thinking through matters of process in light of the poetic and the extreme. Some of our creative works from this time are also included.' (Publication abstract)
1 Footprints on the Edge Christine Howe , Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 27 no. 1 2023; 'This collaborative essay, which sits at the nexus of creative writing, nature writing and
animal studies, seeks to explore the question of how we might live ethically and joyfully
in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Engaging with the fields of creative
non-fiction, philosophy, memoir and literature review, the essay asks how we might
address this question together, as writers, thinkers, artists, and living beings alongside
many others, both human and more-than-human. The authors explore their relationship
with the ocean, animals and each other, combining walking and writing as part of the
same process. Here, walking serves as a pivotal immersive writing process as well as a
creative tool. Alongside sharing ways of thinking, the essay argues the importance of
acknowledging oneself as a writer situated in a particular place and time.' 

(Publication abstract)
1 Where Is Your Country? Christine Howe , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 160 2020; (p. 10)
1 New Rituals Christine Howe , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 Writing on Common Ground : the Lyric Essay as a Decolonising Form Christine Howe , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 57 2019; 'Is it possible for Australian settler writers to decolonise their writing, and if so, what form might this writing take? This paper explores the challenges facing settler writers who wish to respectfully acknowledge the sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to participate in the movement towards a ‘fair and truthful relationship’ (‘Uluru statement from the heart’ 2017). The value of the lyric essay as a poetic form that resists straightforward answers – but rather allows for links to be drawn between the past and the present, complicity and healing, and the land and our experience of it – is explored.' (Publication abstract)
1 Somewhere in the Suburbs i "Somewhere in the suburbs a tongue shapes caper-tasting words. Somewhere in", Christine Howe , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
1 3 y separately published work icon Song in the Dark Christine Howe , Melbourne : Penguin , 2013 Z1914492 2013 single work novel young adult

'Where do you end up when you have nowhere to go, and no one to turn to?

'Paul isn't thinking clearly. After destroying a series of relationships - with his friends, his flatmates, his mum - he finally hurts the one person he cares about most of all. And then he runs away.

'An extraordinary and heartrending story of love, betrayal, addiction and hope.' (Publisher's blurb)
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