Cirrus@Austlit

'Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs' Uncanny Australia (1998), along with Judith Wright's poetry, analyses and responds to the Australian ghost story. Wright does this through poeticised connections of land, history and family and Gelder-Jacobs through postcolonial criticism. This paper investigates how a combined reading of the two can offer new insights into Australian ghost stories and the poetics of haunting' (Philament editors: Bernadette Cantrall, Dreu Harrison and James McLeod).

'On a cold winter's night in the South Pacific, three people on a deserted Tongan resort island embark on a somewhat bitter-sweet mini-expedition through death, desire, and ideas of unambiguously ambiguous identity, leading to a startling finale of magical realism' (Philament contents page).

'The initial idea for "Post" was engendered by the author's computer's bungled attempt to read the subject index of an online copy of the complete writings of Freud. Not being content to let the random remain random, authorial insertions comprise the parts in square brackets which create 'Freudian slips' based on my (mis)readings of the found text' (Philament Contents Page).

'Scientific achievement relies on the work of others, but that reliance is both a blessing and a curse. This poem explores an encounter between two great scientists and how the presence of one haunts the other' (Philmanet contents page).

'This short story "Our Debt to Vulcan" was inspired by an interest in free will, and the sculpture Vulcan by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi. This sculpture is in the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh and in turn was influenced by the story of the Roman god Vulcan' (Philament contents page).