Medusa

Poem

The Idea of Mountain

Poem

Letter To Robert Lowell

Poem

Against Ingres

Poem

The Art of disappearing

Poem

Ruined estates

Poem

The sprain

Poem

Mythos

Poem

Winter Harmonica

Poem

Jogging alongside or bumping off? oral history and fiction in dialogue

This paper emerges from my practice-led PhD thesis investigating the ways fiction writers can enter a dialogue with the project of oral history in Australia. In this paper, I survey the current literature in order to identify the status of fiction within the practice of oral history in Australia. I argue that oral historians and fiction writers are, among other things, both concerned with understanding subjectivity. I consider how one of the specific qualities of fiction, that of character, can provide a space to explore subjectivity, and rely on my own writing practice in order to demonstrate how oral history theory can enrich fictive writings. This paper, while positioned in the field of oral history, exists within a wider debate around how the past can legitimately be represented; I argue oral historians and fiction writers can enter a dialogue around shared concerns.

Last goodbyes in Havana

Poem

Garden Apartment, Taube

Poem

Because you told me to

I knew a woman who lived by herself in a white brick house near the light house at Watson’s Bay. As she grew older, and her memory played tricks, she started to collect odd things. At breakfast each morning, she pulled the stickers off fruits—apples and pears and mandarins—and stuck them to her shoes. When she finished a meal, she stacked the dirty dishes on the couch in her sun room. In spring, when her garden bloomed, she cut orchids from their stems and arranged them in bowls of water around the house. When she ran out of bowls, she used butter containers instead...

Of castles and fairytales

1,000-word travel article describing a journey on the Moselle River in Germany. "Step back in time with Germany’s historical landmarks along the country’s beautiful Mosel River, writes Kari Gislason"--publisher website

Sail into one of Europe's greatest cities

A travel article about the university towns of Heidelberg and Tubingen in Germany. "DURING an extended visit to Heidelberg, Germany's oldest university town, Mark Twain was shocked to see students out and about at all hours of the day and night..."--publisher website