Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 6, No 1, March 2016


The question of collaboration is one that arguably can't be ignored in contemporary academia, creative fields, or current philosophical and critical landscapes. The word ‘collaboration’ at once brings to mind the conspiratorial nature of crime as well as the cooperative nature of teamwork and the harmonious meeting of minds and practices. It is, then, a slippery word, and for this reason serves as a fertile provocation for the inquiries unpacked and developed in this special issue of Axon.

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 5, No 2, November 2015


This issue brings together various explorations of assemblage theory with a number of critical and creative works that relate to it in subtle and surprising ways.

The pull towards poetry is strong. Owen Bullock approaches the theme with reference to Sylvia Plath, Page Richards offers a close reading of Derek Walcott, and Dennis Haskell brings in T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Slessor and Stephen Carroll. Lachlan Brown investigates the meeting of poetry and computer games.

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 5, No 1, March 2015

In this issue, I wanted to escape the recent incarnation of ‘creative cities’ as a policy provision for artist-led urban renewal in western cityscapes rapidly transformed by de-industrialisation and the continued expansion of suburban living.  Instead I wanted to return to a basic sense of the interaction of art and city: to see how artists, writers and poets worked within and tried to understand ‘the city’ or ‘the urban’ in and through their own practice: as inspiration, as material, as context, as milieu.

The Real Through Line
Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 4, No 2, December 2014

This issue of Axon brings together a number of papers presented at the 2013 symposium, ‘The Real Through Line,’* as well as additional works, including new poetry, solicited in response to the symposium’s foci.

Writing, Thinking, Making
Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 4, No 1, July 2014

This issue of Axon explores many aspects and facets of poetry—how poetry constitutes knowledge; how it is made; how poets think about their work; and how poetry may be understood as research.

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 3, No 2, October 2013

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 3, No 1, March 2013

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 2, No 1, September 2012

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 1, No 2, March 2012

Axon: Creative Explorations, Vol 1, No 1, September 2011

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