Cirrus@Austlit

Examines the role of exegesis (in the form of Prefaces, Introductions or Forewords) as 'a framing device positioned between the world created in the fiction (or play or poem) and the world the reader inhabits' with particular reference to the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Edgar Allan Poe and, to a lesser extent, the writing of Graham Greene and Roland Bartes.

Kevin Brophy discusses the history of the prose poem and gives some examples of his own prose poetry reflecting on the theme of why he became a poet.

Catherine Padmore looks at the frailty of text in the 'lost' works of Sibyl of Cumae, the subject of research for her PhD project, and the new electronic medium and concludes that "...the gaps in the [Sibyl] texts show how much has been lost over time. On the other hand, the existence of these literary ruins, circulating thousands of years after they were originally written down, proves the tenacity of the word, even on frail media".