Issue Details: First known date: 2012... no. 15 October 2012 of TEXT Special Issue est. 2000 TEXT Special Issue Website Series
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Cretan Analogues : Restorying Ancient Mythology, Jen Webb , Paul Hetherington , selected work poetry (p. 1-12)
Naucrate Takes Her Timei"She is always moving.", Paul Hetherington , Jen Webb , single work poetry (p. 1-4)
Polonaise in F Sharp Minor, Opus 44, Nigel Krauth , single work prose (p. 1-9)
Litchfield Shouti"Grab your paints your dreams we'll shake", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 2)
Worni"Only loneliness of desk the ellipsis of word,", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 3)
Sueltame Rocky Coast Smelteri"sueltame hermana media hermana nada", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 4)
Purnululu Wanderingi"In your rivers of sand, these", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
1) Vision, Stuart Cooke , sequence poetry (p. 5-9)
Harbour Linei"In my eye's corner: her feet coupled on the grass, beside -", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 9)
Minotauri"Clot-tongued, my speaking was slur.", Jen Webb , Paul Hetherington , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Song of the Possiblei"(He might sit on a limb of their honeycomb light", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
2) Performance, Stuart Cooke , sequence poetry (p. 10-16)
Pasiphae Diesi"A queen deserves a tomb. But that is not for her—", Paul Hetherington , Jen Webb , single work poetry (p. 11)
Valparaíso and Touristi"Before the broken edges of an old city’s coast;", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
Creative Writing under the ERA : Writing under Duress, but Relatively Happy, Nigel Krauth , Donna Lee Brien , single work criticism
'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)
Crab Apple Jelly, Jillian Adams , single work criticism
The Poisoner's Cookbook, Donna Lee Brien , single work criticism
Exercises in Creative Thinking, Kevin Brophy , single work prose
'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)
Out with Franzi"Franz was Dutch once", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry
Writing in/on Australia : History, Ecology, Poetry, Stuart Cooke , selected work poetry
'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.'
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