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'The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) research evaluation process includes
creative work, including creative writing. This article discusses the effect that writing
under the ERA is having on academics in creative writing, including probing the
attitudes to ERA that creative writing academics hold. It presents the results of a survey
run with writing academics who contributed to an ERA-inspired special issue of TEXT
journal, which included questions about writing, and reviewing, creative work under
ERA guidelines.' (Author's abstract)
'After readings and discussions of prose poetry from Charles Simic (2008), Lyn
Hejinian (1987), Margaret Atwood (194) and Russell Edson (2001), with critical input
from Michel Delville (1998) and David Lehman (2003): produce a series of prose
poems over thirty days in a continuous sequence—using dreams, chance impressions,
reading material of all kinds, random thoughts, overheard phrases and imagined
situations, exploiting extension techniques identified in readings and discussions.' (Author's introduction)
'These poems attempt to show that the writing and performance of Australian poetry in
English is strained by multiple pathways of dislocation, displacement and dissent.'